Description
This Senior Technical Architect will provide technical leadership and take responsibility for architectural design and support the agile teams in a large Government implementation. This will require a good understanding of a broad range of technology and the skills to converse easily with and translate between non-technical stakeholders and technical practitioners
The specific technical skills we require are:
- The ability to design and deliver current state/future state architectures and roadmaps that are aligned to the customers organisational/business objectives and technology drivers.
- Expertise in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and Back End technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps.
- Good working knowledge and hands on experience of technologies including Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products.
- The architect will engage with SME and specialist architecture experts, such as Security and Infrastructure Architecture, in order to manage the delivery of the overall design taking into account specific technical aspects.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify and evaluate technical options to solve a business problem
- Work with third party suppliers and other teams elsewhere within the customers organisation to evaluate any technical reuse, opportunities and risks
- Recommend an appropriate technical solution for a specific business problem and set out how this might be implemented from a technical perspective. This will include considering issues such as security, licensing and on-going support
- Present to local and organisation TDA functions, solution aspects for review and approval.
Ensure delivery is in-line with technical and governance standards from the customer and within the Sopra Steria delivery frameworks as appropriate. - Support the Agile teams with a knowledgeable hands on approach to support ceremonies and backlog.
The successful candidate must be willing to undergo a security clearance process and Police vetting, if not already cleared.