Technical Architect

Technical Architect
Rate: £600 £ 662
Clearance Required: BPSS
Duration:6 months
Location:
Telford - 2/3 times a week onsite
Hybrid expectations: monthly travel for team events. Locations may vary between Telford, Birmingham, Manchester or London.
Job Description:
The Technical Architect is the point of contact for technical & software architecture and design queries/decisions.

• Define and build software solution(s) considering maturity, integrity, stability, scale, maintainability and user profile.
• Articulate the different architectural views to depict aspects of the solution and common mechanisms for interactions between software components.
• Know the longer-term technical strategy and how the solution will consider this, whilst ensuring the software solution is compatible with the overall architecture.
• Appreciate non-technology aspects of the software solution (eg business strategy).
• Support the solution throughout its construction, providing support to the development community.
• Relay key messages to other architects, managers and developers consistently.
• Convince the team to adhere to and effectively leverage the software architecture and maintain modifications in architecturally relevant documents.
• Assist in building an effective team of developers
• Experience with Agile methodologies & skills.
• Curiosity, continuous learning and willingness to get hands-on when needed
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Problem solving and creativity skills

• Microservices
• REST APIs
• Containerisation
• Java
• AWS
• MongoDB
• Stakeholder management