HM Land Registry
Senior Technical Architect (Software)
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Salary £57,400 - £71,300
This salary includes the Government Digital and Data Profession Pay Framework.
Accomplished: £71,300 Proficient: £64,300 Developing: £57,400
Location Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS
Job summary At HM Land Registry (HMLR), we are transforming the way land registration services are delivered through modern technology, innovative architecture, and digital services. We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to join our Architecture Practice and play a key role in shaping strategic technology solutions that support our ambitious transformation agenda.
As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work across multiple products, services, and delivery teams, taking a holistic view of our technology landscape. You will help design and deliver scalable, secure, and sustainable technical solutions that meet both current and future business needs.
Job description Architecture is a team sport at HMLR. We believe the best solutions are created when people with different perspectives, experiences, and technical specialisms work together towards a shared goal.
As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work closely with software engineers, architects, delivery teams, and stakeholders across the organization to design end-to-end solutions that align with business objectives and technical strategy. You will be comfortable working in complex environments, providing clarity where there is ambiguity, and ensuring that technology decisions support both immediate delivery needs and long-term organizational goals.
You will take ownership of architectural solutions throughout their lifecycle, considering not only how a solution operates today, but how it scales, evolves, and integrates within the wider technology ecosystem.
Main Duties
As a Senior Technical Architect, you will:
- Develop and communicate architectural solutions that support HMLR’s strategic objectives and technology roadmap.
- Take a holistic view of the technology landscape, assessing the impact of change across current and future systems.
- Design solutions that are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned to business and technical strategies.
- Work collaboratively with software engineers, architects, and agile delivery teams to develop best-fit technical solutions that deliver value while optimizing cost.
- Lead on the architecture of complex initiatives from discovery and design through to delivery and ongoing lifecycle management.
- Identify technical challenges, risks, and dependencies, providing clear recommendations and solutions.
- Translate business requirements and strategic objectives into effective technical designs.
- Ensure solutions function effectively within their immediate context and across the wider organizational ecosystem.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders.
- Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers, and other government departments.
- Negotiate and influence technical decisions, ensuring stakeholders understand options, trade-offs, and outcomes.
- Promote compliance with security standards, legal obligations, governance requirements, and industry best practice.
- Contribute to architectural communities of practice and support continuous improvement across the organization.
- Keep up to date with emerging technologies, industry developments, and architectural approaches, identifying opportunities to enhance HMLR services.
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What We Offer At HMLR, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We value different perspectives and recognize that diverse teams deliver better outcomes. We support flexible working and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, communities, and experiences.
By joining us, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of public services, work on meaningful and challenging programs, and develop your career within a supportive and collaborative environment.
Person specification
To be successful in this role, you will be required to demonstrate the following criteria throughout the recruitment process.
Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications:
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Architect for the whole context You can: align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionals
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Architecture communication You can: lead the communication of complicated, complex, or risky architecture topics with technical and non-technical stakeholders
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Community collaboration You can: work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others
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Making architectural decisions You can: work with others to make architectural design decisions characterized by managed levels of risk and complexity
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Strategy design You can: support the development of a strategy or vision that aligns with organizational objectives
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Technical design throughout the life cycle You can: create technical designs characterized by medium risk, impact, and complexity
Note: These skills are based upon the expected skills for a Senior Technical Architect role as defined on the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Desirable Technical Skills and Qualifications:
There are no essential qualifications required, but being able to evidence having been trained, used, or certified in some of the following will be beneficial:
- AWS/Azure cloud provider training programs.
- Agile/Scrum certification.
- Demonstrable use of industry standard design patterns as part of your solutions (MVC, Microservices, Pub Sub etc.)
- Architecture Frameworks e.g. TOGAF, Zachman etc.
- Modelling techniques UML, SYSML etc.
- DevOps Training.
- Wide range of experience of technology domains including:
- Engineering and software architecture design
- Technology architecture, infrastructure, cloud platforms
- IT Security architecture: best practice, patterns, and standards
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Our existing products and technologies include:
- AWS, Azure, OpenShift, IBM Mainframe, Nutanix, Linux, Windows, Postgres, DB2, Oracle, Fusion, MS Dynamics, RabbitMQ, Python, Java, Talend, O365
Some of this list would be expected to be in your kitbag of experience.
Essential Experience:
- Using and understanding of a broad range of technologies, tools, and processes.
- Proactively keeping abreast of upcoming technologies and changes in the industry.
- Leading and influencing diverse groups to get to agreement on a technical solution.
- Identifying and managing change and its impact on people, process, technology, and information.
- Understanding technology and the needs of stakeholders and then using this knowledge to deliver good architectural designs.
- Showing where you have solved complex problems by managing levels of risk and complexity.
- Structured, logical decomposition of problems using appropriate modelling techniques and languages.
- Taking accountability for end-to-end solutions from initiation to initial delivery and its ongoing lifecycle in line with a strategy.
- Delivering compliance in line with security requirements, legal or legislative responsibilities.
- Supporting or developing technical strategies, principles, patterns, and roadmaps.
Desirable Experience:
- Previous Public Sector experience and an understanding of Central Government IT related initiatives, policies, and standards.
- Experience of the competitive IT procurement life cycle; specifically, solution specification and evaluation criteria.
- Experience of building, maintaining, and managing relationships with vendors.
- Previous Software development experience.
- 3rd party software integration.
- Planning for decommissioning, maintainability, and scalability.
- Where you have collaborated with multiple teams to deliver the required outcome.
Please note that desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of high application numbers and/or as a tiebreaker.
For further information, please see the attached job description.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact:
- Name: Callum Todd
- Email: Callum.Todd@landregistry.gov.uk
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