Technical Design Authority/Architect - must be SC Cleared

Technical Design Authority - must be SC Cleared - 1-2 days London/remote - 6-18 months - £640 - 682

Core skills and experience:

• Organise and run TDA function (ie, TDA charter, operating model)
• Broad knowledge of technical architectures (eg, cloud, distributed, monolithic)
• Good coverage of application, data, integration, infrastructure, security domains
• Demonstratable understanding of architecture governance (incl., wavers/deviations)
• Strong understanding of architecture design patterns (incl., integration anti-patterns)
• Strong understanding of modelling notation (eg, ArchiMate, UML, BPMN)
• Management and recording of key design decisions (ie, architecture repository)

Desirable skills and experience:

• Familiarity with TOGAF (incl., ADM)
• Familiarity with Sparx EA
• Familiarity with Agile methods (eg, SCRUM, SAFe)
• Knowledge of analysis and design methods (eg, Structured, OOAD)

The Technical Architect must be comfortable scheduling and organising meetings, conducting technical architecture reviews, educating and advising development teams, accurately recording design decisions, and researching IT architecture and technology topics. They must have the ability to manage people, navigate conflict, abstract complex themes, problem sole, distil key discussion points, organise work, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Role

Providing technology leadership, delivering high quality, creative and insightful technology advice; you will ensure project success through timely and accurate production of agreed deliverables:

• Shaping, leading and delivering value through technology advisory consultancy and through guiding transformational delivery engagements
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior levels that will enable consensus building and shaping technology direction
• Leading in the development and presentation of client proposals collaborating with teams across our business
• Leading in the development of collateral to support Technology Consulting go to market' propositions and service offerings
• Farming of accounts - working with account teams to support opportunity identification, qualification and sales
• Contribute to the development of practice members' skills to ensure a consistency of service delivery and expertise. Active coaching and mentoring of junior members of the team
• Develop, implement and continually refine a coherent approach and appropriate frameworks to support business transformation proposals, that includes presentations, specimen RFI/RFP content, methodologies, toolkits and deliverables