Technical Architect

Department: Engineering

Based at: Salford Quays

We’re looking for a Technical Architect to take complex high-level designs and manage them through build — designing out the detail of our most complex server-side and cloud solutions, and getting hands-on through delivery to make sure what gets built achieves the product goals set out by our clients across finance and retail to health and sport.

As a Technical Architect you’ll turn a solution’s shape into a detailed design a delivery team can build, own the cloud infrastructure decisions behind it, and take on the infrastructure problems the team can’t get past. On our larger engagements you’ll work in collaboration with a Solution Architect; on smaller ones there might not be one and the design is yours from the first conversation.

You’ll work with the engineers who’ll build it — Lead Server Engineers, Technical Leads and their teams — so the design is understood, challenged and owned rather than handed down, and you’ll be the person clients bring their hardest technical questions to.

What you’ll be working on

• Provide the overarching technical steer for the overall architecture, making high-stakes decisions that ensure scalability and resilience.
• Act as the primary technical consultant for major clients. Consulting on early client engagements, translating business goals into technical strategies and building deep-rooted professional trust.
• Take high-level designs and produce the detailed designs - occasionally producing the high-level designs where needed.
• Identify, adapt and document design and patterns for a solution, including the risks and document how they will be mitigated.
• Own non-functional requirements, covering security, performance, resilience, observability and the running cost of what you build.
• Own cloud infrastructure decisions across compute, storage, identity, governance, networking and security — and own the problems when they land.
• Manage and coordinate the technical dependencies coming from clients and third parties.
• Champion and evolve agile methodologies and DevOps cultures, identifying bottlenecks in the delivery lifecycle and implementing systemic improvements.
• Lead by example by contributing to mission-critical code, setting the gold standard for clean, maintainable, and high-performance engineering.
• Support bids and pitches as the technical expert, including the specifications that let bid teams estimate honestly.
• Drive the technical discovery phase for new large-scale engagements, performing feasibility studies and defining MVP boundaries.