Principal Technical Architect Job at Social Value Portal Ltd (Hemel Hempstead)

Job Responsibility

Providing technical leadership
Providing fully traceability for contracted requirements and ensuring the solution is fit for service
Managing the technical leads within each separate workstreams
Providing advice and guidance to development teams as they go about designing and engineering the new solutions
Bridging the gap between the technical teams and wider business
Dealing with escalations
Interfacing with the Design Authority
Interfacing with the client to ensure effective decisions are made concerning all aspects of the technical solution
Supporting with the recruitment of technical resources and technical resource management
Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and documentation
Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures
Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors)
Identifies and manage risk in his/her business activities and take responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner

3 years' experience of delivery within a secure Defence (preferred) or @3 environment
Excellent leadership skills, with experience having managed complex technical solutions, with engineering teams of at least 20 plus resources
5+ years' experience in a senior technical role either managing a technical service provision or as a senior architect working within projects and programs
Outstanding communications skills with the ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and non-technical audiences
Experience managing escalations effectively
Experience in managing and supporting major IT transformations (from a technical, not project management perspective)
Knowledge and experience of IDAM solutions
Demonstrable experience in introducing automation
Experience working in a highly secure environment with complex security requirements