We are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Technical Architect to work a 12-month contract for our client working 3 days per week on-site in Leeds or Newcastle.

Job Description:

• Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives.
• Lead on ensuring high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs
• Support development of the client's Architecture practice by sharing best practice and reference architectures to ensure consistency and coherence of the client's architecture design.
• Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement the solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs.
• Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering.
• Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design.
• Create solution options and recommendations - during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design.
• Make technology choices for products in conjunction with the enterprise architecture blueprint, contributing to the update of technology policies where appropriate.
• Contribute to building an inclusive digital culture.

Technical Specialisms:

Architecture & Design Methods

• Desirable skills to support Technical Breadth and Systems Integration capabilities
• ArchiMate and UML architecture/design and modelling techniques, tools and standards
• Agile/DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice
• Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice
• WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice

Programme & Project Management

• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios

Core Technology Knowledge

• Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
• Application and integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
• Information and data architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
• Cloud and infrastructure architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice

Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture

• Amazon Web Service (AWS) technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice
• Microsoft Azure technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice
• Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Serverless cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice

Security Architecture

• Security threat trends, analysis and protection technologies, tools and best practice
  • Includes: software exploits/SQL injection/cross-site Scripting/remote file inclusion/stolen credentials/'watering hole' attacks/DDOS/malware/phishing/ransomware
• Secure communication and encryption/cryptographic technologies, tools and best practice
  • Includes: IPSec/Kerberos/TLS/SSL
• Identification, authentication and Single Sign-On(SSO) technologies, tools and best practice
  • Includes: OpenID/Oauth 2.0/OIDC/XACML/OATH reference architecture/Kerberos/SAML/WS-Security/RACF
• Cybersecurity technologies, tools and best practice

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.

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