Lead Technical Architect

Location: Leeds (Hybrid / UK-based with travel)

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Sector: Digital Consultancy / Technology Architecture

Our client is a rapidly growing digital consultancy delivering transformative digital solutions across public and private sector organisations. They are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Architect to play a key role in shaping architectural vision, technical strategy, and delivery excellence across client engagements and internal practice.

This is a senior, influential role with responsibility beyond individual projects. The Lead Technical Architect will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, mentor other architects and engineers, contribute to technical thought leadership, and support business growth through pre‑sales and strategic engagements.

• Define, promote, and maintain architectural vision, standards, and best practices across the delivery practice.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders, including C-suite leaders, guiding long-term technology strategy and digital transformation initiatives.
• Lead complex and strategic technical engagements, providing architectural governance, assurance, and direction across programmes.
• Mentor, coach, and develop technical architects and senior engineers, supporting capability growth and technical excellence.
• Lead technical input into pre‑sales activities, including bid responses, technical solution design, and due diligence.
• Influence and make architectural decisions that impact multiple projects, platforms, or clients.
• Contribute to external thought leadership through speaking engagements, written content, and community participation.
• Support the ongoing evolution of the organisation’s technical strategy and consulting capability.

• Extensive senior-level experience as a Technical Architect, with a strong track record delivering large-scale digital and cloud transformations.
• Proven expertise designing and implementing complex architectures across one or more major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP), including multi-cloud strategies.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, including containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless approaches, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise, with extensive hands‑on experience using Terraform for scalable, repeatable deployments.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership, mentoring architects and engineering teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence executive and C-suite audiences.
• Experience working within a consultancy environment, including contribution to bids, proposals, and business development.
• Expert-level knowledge of cloud security, networking, resilience, and governance principles.
• Competitive salary with transparent pay structure.
• Contributory pension scheme with enhanced employer contributions.
• 25 days annual leave plus UK public holidays.
• Life assurance, critical illness cover, and death-in-service benefits.
• Flexible benefits package including private medical and dental cover, additional pension contributions, wellbeing allowance, and additional annual leave.
• Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle-to-work and electric vehicle options.
• Employee discounts platform and wellbeing support initiatives.
• Volunteer days and community engagement opportunities.
• Relocation support package of up to £8,000 (subject to terms and conditions).

Candidates are encouraged to apply with an up-to-date CV highlighting relevant architecture leadership, consultancy experience, and cloud expertise. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted to discuss the role in more detail and to outline the next stages of the recruitment process.