Principal Technical Architect

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)

Compensation: £90,000 - £100,000 / year

Description

Our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients.

We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Technical Architects to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion.

The successful candidate will lead the Technical Architecture and Cyber aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction.

In addition, our Principal Technical Architects are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.

Our Principal Technical Architects are members of the Technical Architecture and Cyber Practice leadership team with the responsibility to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business.

You will be responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of your engagement/account as well as a shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. You will leverage your client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions.

The right person for this role will do this by combining their technical discipline/craft experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials
Assess project performance as a part of the billable delivery team, Quality Assure (QA) the deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction. Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to develop their careers
Act as a Technical Authority (of your appropriate capability) to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge
Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission
Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues
Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Client

Understanding of the issues and challenges that the public sector faces in delivering services that make the best use of data and digital capabilities, transforming legacy infrastructure, and taking an innovative and user-centric approach
Ability to innovate and take learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and advances in technology and apply them to UK Public Sector challenges to create tangible solutions for our clients
Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders within the public sector.

Leadership

Experience of building and leading high performing, consulting teams and creating the leveraged engagements to provide a cost-effective, profitable, successful client-facing delivery
Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry
Experience of managing third-party partnerships and suppliers (in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues) to provide a consolidated and seamless delivery team to clients.

Practice

Experience in delivering complex and difficult engagements that span multiple capabilities for user-facing digital and data services in the public sector
Experience in identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress the development of the opportunity
Experience of working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.

Technical Architecture

Demonstrable and proven experience designing software systems, with a varied set of background experiences, and an understanding of both legacy architectures and cutting-edge architecture patterns.
A history in software engineering, having delivered code as part of a development team in the past. Ability to collaborate with software engineers to understand likely work item complexity, plan accordingly, and update plans as assumptions are challenged or changed.
An expert-level understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP, as well as multi-cloud configurations.
Deep expertise in enterprise systems architecture, including networking, firewalls, routers, load balancers, and security protocols, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performance system integrations.
Experience architecting systems across the lifecycle, building new systems, supporting them through deployment and working with stakeholders to plan for cleanly decommissioning older systems.
A proven track record of consultancy across a variety of industries, treated by clients as a recognised technical advisor.
Experience working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technical disciplines all successfully collaborating.
Experience of having worked directly with Cloud vendors, including as part of vendor partner programs, such as AWS APN and Azure Partners.
Expert-level knowledge of well-architected frameworks and vendor-endorsed best practices.
Relevant certifications at the expert / practitioner level.
Knowledge of UK public sector technology guidance and frameworks, such as NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP).

Job Benefits

Support in applying

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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.

Benefits

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

✈️ 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays!

👶 Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options

👩‍💻 Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff

🤗 Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

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