HelloKindred
Technical Architect
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Company Description
Who is HelloKindred?
HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid.
Our vision is to make work accessible and people’s lives better. We do this by disrupting traditional employment barriers – connecting ambitious talent to flexible opportunities with trusted brands.
Job Description
Anticipated Contract End Date/Length
December 15, 2026 / Approximately 3 months
Work Setup
Hybrid – Huntingdon workshops as required per week
Clearance Required
BPSS
Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Technical Architect to lead technical architecture and design activities throughout the design phase of a technology project. The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams to finalise and validate requirements, define the target architecture and system landscape, and develop comprehensive High-Level Design documentation covering application architecture, infrastructure, security, networking, integrations, and data flows.
What you will do
- Lead technical architecture and design workshops with stakeholders to finalise and validate requirements based on discovery-phase documentation.
- Define and finalise the target architecture, system landscape, and integration approach.
- Develop and deliver the High-Level Design (HLD) document covering application architecture, infrastructure, security, networking, integrations, and data flows.
- Assess current-state architecture and identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and migration considerations.
- Define non-functional requirements covering availability, scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery.
- Ensure non-functional requirements are incorporated into the technical design.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and integration teams to align architecture decisions and design standards.
- Review and validate solution designs against technical architecture guidelines.
- Provide technical leadership and architecture recommendations to support project planning and implementation activities.
- Develop effort estimations to support project planning and delivery.
- Present the HLD to stakeholders and address review comments.
- Obtain architecture sign-off from relevant stakeholders.
- Support the transition from design to build and implementation teams.
- Ensure architecture requirements are clearly communicated to build and implementation teams.
- Produce and maintain architecture diagrams, including logical and physical views.
- Define integration and data flow architecture.
- Document non-functional requirements assessments.
- Maintain architecture review and sign-off documentation.
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Qualifications
- Bring proven experience working as a Technical Architect within complex technology environments.
- Possess strong experience leading technical architecture and design workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrate experience defining target architectures, system landscapes, and integration approaches.
- Bring strong experience producing High-Level Design (HLD) documentation.
- Possess broad technical knowledge across application architecture, infrastructure, security, networking, integrations, and data flows.
- Demonstrate experience assessing current-state architecture and identifying gaps, dependencies, risks, and migration considerations.
- Bring strong understanding of non-functional requirements, including availability, scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery.
- Possess experience collaborating with infrastructure, application, security, and integration teams.
- Demonstrate experience reviewing and validating solution designs against technical architecture guidelines and standards.
- Bring strong technical leadership and architecture recommendation capabilities.
- Possess experience providing effort estimations to support project planning and implementation.
- Demonstrate strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to present HLD documentation and secure architecture sign-off.
- Bring experience producing logical and physical architecture diagrams.
- Possess experience documenting integration and data flow architecture.
- Demonstrate the ability to support the transition from design into build and implementation.
- Hold or be eligible to obtain BPSS clearance.
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Additional Information
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based, without requiring employer sponsorship.
- HelloKindered is committed to fair, transparent, and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills, experience, and role-related requirements.
- We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
- HelloKindered is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
Department
Tech Staffing
Anticipated Hours per Week
37.5
Work Setup
Hybrid
Compensation
GBP 0 - GBP 480 - daily
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