[Hiring] Technical Architect @Version 1

Role Description

Open to SC Cleared and SC eligible candidates, the Technical Architect (Oversight / Technical Owner) will act as the senior technical owner within the Version 1 delivery organisation working closely with a key customer. The role is accountable for maintaining technical integrity across the service landscape and for providing governance, assurance and informed challenge to delivery teams and suppliers.

• Act as the Version 1 technical owner for the service with our customer, maintaining end-to-end technical coherence across applications, cloud platforms, integrations and support services.
• Provide architecture governance and technical assurance for:
  • Solution designs
  • Statements of Work
  • Service designs
  • Technical roadmaps
  • Change proposals
  • Supplier deliverables
• Lead or support design reviews and technical governance forums, ensuring that decisions, assumptions, constraints and exceptions are clearly recorded.
• Review and challenge technical proposals to ensure they are secure, resilient, maintainable, supportable and proportionate to the service need.
• Make technical decisions within delegated authority and provide evidence-based recommendations to our customer where decision authority or risk ownership is retained by them.
• Identify and manage technical risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, ensuring that material concerns have clear mitigations, owners and escalation routes.
• Oversee technical debt, lifecycle, obsolescence and sustainability concerns, helping shape practical roadmaps for improvement.
• Provide technical oversight of suppliers and delivery teams, requiring corrective action or escalation where designs or deliverables do not meet agreed standards.
• Ensure operational readiness is built into delivery, including monitoring, alerting, capacity, backup, recovery, resilience, support procedures and escalation paths.
• Support service transition, onboarding, acceptance and go-live decisions by assessing technical evidence and readiness.
• Work with security teams to ensure security-by-design, vulnerability management, compliance and assurance requirements are addressed.
• Provide senior technical input to major incidents, complex problems and cross-supplier technical escalations where required.
• Produce concise technical assurance reports, decision papers, risk assessments and governance updates for technical and senior leadership audiences.
• Promote consistent architecture practices, knowledge sharing and continual improvement across the service.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Technical Architect, Lead Architect, Technical Authority or Technical Owner in a complex enterprise environment.
• Experience providing architecture governance and technical assurance within a managed service, multi-supplier or highly regulated environment.
• Experience supporting UK Government or public sector digital services, or comparable regulated services.
• Broad knowledge across cloud architecture, application architecture, integration, DevSecOps, security and live service operations.
• Practical experience reviewing solution designs, non-functional requirements and operational support models.
• Experience managing technical risk, architecture exceptions, dependencies and senior escalations.
• Experience supporting service transition, operational readiness, service acceptance and continual improvement.
• Working knowledge of AWS and Microsoft Azure architecture and operating models.
• Knowledge of Government Digital Service standards, the Technology Code of Practice and NCSC cloud security principles.
• Understanding of ITIL 4, SIAM principles, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 20000-1 and OWASP practices.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical matters clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to provide constructive challenge while building trusted relationships with customers, suppliers and delivery teams.

Requirements

• Experience working on SC-cleared UK Government programmes.
• Experience with Jira Service Management, ServiceNow or comparable enterprise service management tooling.
• Experience of multi-cloud, product-centric delivery and DevOps operating models.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect and/or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Benefits

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work-life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more.
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
• And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.