Amber Labs
Lead Technical Architect
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Lead Technical Architect
Amber Labs | Permanent Remote with occasional travel to London Active SC Clearance Required
About Amber Labs
Amber Labs is a fast-growing UK technology consultancy delivering digital transformation across enterprise, government, and regulated sectors. We specialise in cloud, data, software engineering, user-centred design, and AI, helping organisations deliver better services through modern technology and agile ways of working.
We're currently supporting the delivery of critical digital services within a major UK government programme and are looking for an experienced Lead Technical Architect to join our growing architecture practice.
This role will provide technical leadership across a complex Oracle technology estate, helping shape architectural strategy, improve governance, and support the ongoing modernisation of critical public sector services.
The Role
As a Lead Technical Architect, you will provide strategic technical leadership across a large and complex Oracle estate, ensuring architectural decisions support secure, resilient, and sustainable digital services.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including architects, engineers, delivery teams, suppliers, and senior stakeholders.
- Understand the existing technology landscape, produce key architectural artefacts, and guide future technical direction.
- Play a key role in managing technical risk, improving governance, and supporting long-term transformation across legacy and modern platforms.
The role will involve working across a complex Oracle environment, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Oracle SOA, and Oracle Intelligent Advisor, alongside numerous integrations with internal digital services and external third-party suppliers.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead technical architecture across a complex Oracle technology estate, providing strategic direction and technical leadership.
- Guide and mentor architects and technical specialists, supporting high-quality architectural decision making.
- Develop and maintain architecture artefacts that document the current and future technology landscape.
- Support the definition of target architectures that align with organisational objectives and long-term digital strategy.
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Governance, Risk & Assurance
- Provide architectural governance across programmes and technical delivery teams.
- Identify, assess, and communicate technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities.
- Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, and legal requirements.
- Support governance across third-party suppliers and commercial partners to maintain technical quality and consistency.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Build strong relationships with technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, concise information suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide architectural guidance to support strategic planning and informed decision making.
- Navigate ambiguity and complexity to enable effective collaboration across multiple delivery teams.
Strategy & Continuous Improvement
- Assess the current technology estate and identify opportunities for incremental improvement and modernisation.
- Apply systems thinking to understand the wider organisational, technical, and operational impacts of architectural decisions.
- Support the evolution of legacy Oracle platforms while balancing business priorities, technical constraints, and long-term strategic outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement in architecture standards, governance, and technical best practice.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Active SC Clearance
- Proven experience in a Lead Technical Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Senior Solution Architect role.
- Strong experience working with Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS).
- Experience with Oracle SOA and Oracle Intelligent Advisor is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated leadership experience providing technical direction across complex enterprise technology estates.
- Strong background in software engineering, enterprise architecture, or solution architecture.
- Experience producing and maintaining architecture artefacts that document technology estates, risks, cybersecurity posture, and compliance.
- Proven experience providing architectural governance and managing technical risk across internal teams and third-party suppliers.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with both technical specialists and senior executive stakeholders.
- Strong systems thinking mindset with the ability to understand complex technical environments and make informed architectural trade-offs.
- Comfortable working within ambiguous, evolving, and complex delivery environments.
- Experience working within agile multidisciplinary teams.
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What We Offer
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
- Private medical insurance with Bupa
- Remote-first working, with access to our Liverpool Street office when you want to collaborate in person
- Personal training budget to support your professional development
- Perkbox membership, with access to discounts across retail, travel, dining, wellness, and entertainment
- Electric Vehicle Scheme after one year of service
- Regular team socials and opportunities to connect across the business
- Employer pension contributions
- Referral scheme, offering up to £3,000 for successful hires
- The opportunity to join a growing consultancy early and genuinely influence its direction and success
Amber Labs is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
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