Gazelle Global
Technical Architect – Cloud, Infrastructure & Integration
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Reporting to the Technical Assurance Manager, the Technical Architect is responsible for designing and assuring complex technical solutions across Digital & IT services. The role provides technical leadership and guidance across projects, ensuring that technology solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with enterprise architecture strategy, business objectives, and regulatory obligations.
The Technical Architect works closely with the Technical Assurance Manager and the Head of Architecture to ensure that technical design and delivery adhere to high standards of quality, security, and operational excellence. This includes working directly with internal teams and external suppliers, acting as a subject matter expert, and ensuring all technical decisions align with enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, and technical assurance frameworks.
About the Role
- Act as the lead design authority for technical solutions in assigned projects, ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture standards and regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with the Technical Assurance Manager to deliver architectural assurance activities across the project lifecycle, from design through to operational handover.
- Design and review technical architectures for cloud, infrastructure, integration services, and application platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
- Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders across SZC to translate solution intent into technically viable and sustainable architectures.
- Provide subject matter expertise to project delivery teams and suppliers, ensuring technical quality and adherence to agreed principles.
- Support architectural governance processes, including participation in the Architecture Review Board (ARB) when required.
- Identify and assess emerging technologies, making recommendations for adoption where they deliver business value and align with SZC’s strategy.
- Contribute to integration planning to ensure interoperability across a multi-supplier delivery environment.
- Ensure cyber security requirements are embedded within all technical designs and align with enterprise security frameworks.
- Support risk management for technical delivery, escalating key risks to the Technical Assurance Manager.
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- Strong technical expertise in enterprise-scale architecture, including cloud, infrastructure, networks, and integration.
- Proven ability to design and assure secure, scalable, and cost-effective technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Understanding of cyber security requirements within regulated environments.
- Experience working in multi-supplier, large-scale delivery environments.
- Extensive experience in technical architecture roles within large-scale, regulated, or complex project environments.
- Track record of providing architectural assurance and oversight for supplier-delivered solutions.
- Security Check (SC) clearance or willingness to undergo vetting.
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- Professional certifications such as TOGAF, ITIL, or cloud vendor certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience within the nuclear, energy, or similarly regulated sectors.
- Familiarity with EDF Group digital initiatives and lessons learned from Hinkley Point C.
- Knowledge of emerging technologies and digital transformation best practices.
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