Technical Architect

As a Technical Architect, you will be responsible for defining and driving modern, scalable, secure and effective technology across Government. Influencing design, nurturing best practice and reducing technical debt, you will play a key role in simplifying, structuring and defining technical solutions and innovation across Government.As a technical architect you will:develop a deep technical understanding of the Governments priority services, sufficient to provide technical advice and guidance to help them transform. Review the services to identify problems, opportunities and potential solutions to improve the technical design lead in designing and implementing technology solutions that meet the digital and business strategy, industry trends, standards and government requirementsprovide expert technical leadership to departments on architecture relating to technical domains (such as Infrastructure. Networking, Channel strategy and systems Integration)oversee and proactively shape the implementation of new innovative solutions, using in-depth industry knowledge and identifying opportunities to maximise cost savings and business benefitsunderstand the issue of legacy technology and assist with the prioritisation and remediation of critical systemsarticulate ideas, solutions and recommendations across all levels of the organisation and have a proactive approach to work at pace to deliver technology transformationidentify new technologies which can make a material impact on the sector and competitive advantagelead and participate in technical design and development to evaluate and recommend optimal solutions designed for high levels of data quality, integrity, performance, availability and reliability. Identify and measure key factors in product selection during solution options appraisal creationwork with the architecture community to design, implement, embed and evaluate best practice architecture across Governmentwork with third-party vendors in a collaborative way to ensure supplier-delivered solutions meet business needs and organisation / industry best practice