Government Digital Service
Lead Technical Architect
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This role is available across our London, Bristol, and Manchester locations
About the Role
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital center of government. We are responsible for setting, leading, and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.
Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:
- Joining up public sector services
- Harnessing the power of AI for the public good
- Strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
- Elevating leadership and investing in talent
- Funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
- Committing to transparency and driving accountability
We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK, and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.
We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London, and Bristol.
The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.
Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need.
Job Description
The Digital Workplace team at DSIT is responsible for shaping how colleagues work, collaborate, and use technology securely and effectively. We are looking for a Digital Workplace Technical Architect to provide senior technical leadership and architectural assurance across our Digital Workplace services. This role will set direction for end-user computing and collaboration platforms, ensuring solutions are secure by design, user-centered, resilient, and sustainable at scale.
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You will operate at organizational and cross-government level, influencing strategy, shaping standards, and assuring complex solutions across multiple teams and programmes.
As a Lead Technical Architect, you’ll:
- Set the technical architecture direction for Digital Workplace services, aligned to departmental and cross-government strategy
- Lead and assure the design of complex solutions covering end user computing, collaboration platforms, identity and security, and integration with legacy systems
- Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and patterns, providing clear guidance to delivery teams and suppliers
- Act as a senior technical authority, offering challenge, assurance, and risk management on architectural decisions
- Build strong relationships across DSIT, wider government, and industry, contributing to cross-government communities and promoting reuse and common approaches
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to architects and senior technologists
Person Specification
We’re interested in people who have:
- Considerable experience providing technical architecture leadership for large-scale, user-facing platforms or services, working to support wider organizational objectives beyond your immediate goals
- Experience setting and delivering technology strategies that align with organizational objectives
- Strong experience creating technical designs characterized by high risk, impact, and complexity within Digital Workplace or End User Computing technologies
- Experience designing and assuring architectural solutions operating at enterprise or multi-team scale and managing risks at the appropriate level
- Experience actively engaging with others, such as suppliers and commercial colleagues, including architectural input to procurement and assurance and adapting your feedback to ensure its effective and lasting
- The ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Advanced expertise in one or more of the following; end user computing and device management, collaboration and productivity platforms (for example Microsoft 365), identity and access management, security, compliance and information governance, and integration and interoperability
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Please note
This role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.
DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship license but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
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