Lead Technical Architect

• Supporting Made Tech Colleagues:

  • Lead and champion the practice across Made Tech through community of practice involvement.
  • Coach and mentor more junior team members.
  • Present learnings to the Software Engineering Community of Practice.
  • Support and brief client partners to help them better understand our technical propositions.
  • Line management of more junior colleagues.
  • Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community.

• Assuring Quality of Technical Deliveries:

  • Provide architecture support and guidance to delivery teams.
  • Review architecture quality at various checkpoints throughout a delivery’s lifecycle.

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise

• Positive Employee Experience:

  • Invest in ensuring a positive employee experience.
  • Ensure constraints or controls do not overly encumber people delivering for clients.
  • Ensure policies are lightweight, jargon-free, relevant, and “just enough”.

• Align to Commercial Goals:

  • Understand and align improvements to the commercial goals of the business.
  • Ensure all prioritised activities can be related back to the commercial benefit they will deliver.

• Value Close Collaboration:

  • Collaborate and work with colleagues across the business.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement by offering constructive and reinforcing feedback.

• Take a Pragmatic Approach:

  • Balance risk and reward appropriately.
  • Make the right decisions to enable the business to achieve its long-term vision.

Job Benefits

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We believe we can use tech to make public services better and that our team should represent the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe, and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews, and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

Life at Made Tech

We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive, and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice, and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Specialist know.

The groups are:

• antiracist-activists
• disability
• lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
• neurodiversity
• parents-carers
• women-in-tech

Benefits

• 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
• Remote Working - we offer part-time remote working for all our staff
• Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' continuous UK residency and 5-year employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.