Technical Architect x2

Salary: £Please confirm competitive rate / contact us to discuss further

Location: Reading or Crawley – 2 days per week onsite.

Contract Length: TBC
Clearance: SC

• End-to-end experience of Secure Software Development Lifecycle processes and methodologies.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of delivering complex technology services across one or more specialist technology and/or business domains.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile development, tools, and methods.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for handling personal data.
  
  E.g., GDPR.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for solution security.
  
  E.g., OWASP, NCSC cloud security principles.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice within one or more specialist architecture domains.
• Knowledge and experience of delivering complex technology services across one or more specialist technology and/or business domains.
• Knowledge and experience of designing and delivering solutions based on the capabilities of public cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Knowledge and experience of Dev Ops and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools and practices.
• Knowledge and experience of Microservices, Webservices and associated technologies and frameworks including Rest, SOAP, JSON.
• Knowledge and experience of Single Sign on and Authentication/Authorisation technologies such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, ADFS and LDAP.
• Knowledge and experience of Web Application design and delivery.
• Knowledge of applying best practice for handling personal data.
  
  E.g., GDPR.
• Strong understanding and practical experience of working with multi-discipline teams to deliver complex technology services.
• Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology.
• Extensive experience of secure development using either Java or .NET and associated tools and frameworks.

• Degree level education, or equivalent.
• Able to work independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various technologies and architecture patterns.
• Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology.
• Consultancy skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders at senior levels.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to guide, direct, motivate and support staff either directly or indirectly.
• Highly customer focused, able to quickly build trust and develop customer intimacy.
• Promotes a learning and growth culture in their area of accountability.
• Actively supports and promotes the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation.
• Solution-oriented with the imagination to identify innovative approaches to critical problems.
• Effective time management and an ability to recognise and respond to changing priorities and requirements.
• Good organisation skills.
• Self-starting and self-motivated with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Strong team-player, able to work well with others.

• Experience of working in secure customer environments.
• Experience working in the UK Central Government or Defence sectors.
• Industry recognised Technical Qualifications.
  
  E.g., Microsoft certifications, Amazon certifications and similar.
• Knowledge and experience of data architecture and associated patterns and technologies.
• Knowledge and experience of delivering AI-based solutions.
• Knowledge and experience of delivering real time data integration e.g., streaming (IoT) and APIs.