DDaT - Lead Technical Architect
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £59,690 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | A pension contribution of 28.97% based on the listed salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | SN13 9NR, SW1A 2HB, BS34 8JH |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 412228 |
Summary
As a Lead Technical Architect within the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Cloud and Hosting domain, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring technical strategies and architectures are developed, agreed, and followed. Working alongside business, technical, and other specialists, you will lead the ongoing development of technical standards, reference architectures, patterns and guidance used to ensure our solutions and services fit into the broader strategy for Defence and wider government. An Architect with proven skills in either Enterprise Cloud, Edge and Internet of things (IoT), or End User Devices, you will bring your experience to help develop secure, resilient, and cutting edge technical architectures that support our critical Defence activities.
Responsibilities
As Lead Technical Architect you will be responsible for building an understanding of Defence’s diverse and complex technology estate, including:
Developing and delivering a range of technical architecture outputs, and act as architecture subject matter expert and key point of contact.
Contributing to Defence’s overall Enterprise Architecture, by developing technical strategies, policies, and roadmaps, from a business, technology, and data perspective, including ‘as-is’, ‘to-be’ and transitional states.
Presenting architectural and technical recommendations to senior management and other key decision makers, providing expert guidance on key technologies, enterprise solutions, and digital transformation initiatives, to influence enterprise-level technical direction and digital technology decisions.
Promoting pan-Defence reuse, operational sustainability, and scalability, to achieve value for money, drive integration by default, and reduce duplicative technology across the enterprise and delivery portfolio.
Developing, leading, and participating in architecture communities as required, to collaborate and advise partners across Defence, Government, Industry, and our NATO Allies and to ensure business, technology, and data decisions are aligned with current Defence strategy. National and International travel will occasionally be required to support these engagements
Carrying out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity, updating technical strategies and roadmaps, as appropriate.
For more information on Technical Architects please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;
Lead Technical Architect
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.
Responsibilities
As Lead Technical Architect you will be responsible for building an understanding of Defence’s diverse and complex technology estate, including:
Developing and delivering a range of technical architecture outputs, and act as architecture subject matter expert and key point of contact.
Contributing to Defence’s overall Enterprise Architecture, by developing technical strategies, policies, and roadmaps, from a business, technology, and data perspective, including ‘as-is’, ‘to-be’ and transitional states.
Presenting architectural and technical recommendations to senior management and other key decision makers, providing expert guidance on key technologies, enterprise solutions, and digital transformation initiatives, to influence enterprise-level technical direction and digital technology decisions.
Promoting pan-Defence reuse, operational sustainability, and scalability, to achieve value for money, drive integration by default, and reduce duplicative technology across the enterprise and delivery portfolio.
Developing, leading, and participating in architecture communities as required, to collaborate and advise partners across Defence, Government, Industry, and our NATO Allies and to ensure business, technology, and data decisions are aligned with current Defence strategy. National and International travel will occasionally be required to support these engagements
Carrying out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity, updating technical strategies and roadmaps, as appropriate.
For more information on Technical Architects please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;
Lead Technical Architect
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.