DV Cleared Principal Technical Architect

Role: Principal Technical Architect
Duration: 6 months
Location: Hemel Hempstead (full time onsite)
Clearance: DV
Rate: £700 – £750 per day inside IR35

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership
• Providing fully traceability for contracted requirements and ensuring the solution is fit for service
• Managing the technical leads within each separate workstreams
• Providing advice and guidance to development teams as they go about designing and engineering the new solutions
• Bridging the gap between the technical teams and wider business
• Dealing with escalations
• Interfacing with the Design Authority
• Interfacing with the client to ensure effective decisions are made concerning all aspects of the technical solution
• Supporting with the recruitment of technical resources and technical resource management
• Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and documentation
• Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures
• Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors)
• Identifies and manage risk in his/her business activities and take responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner

Essential Skills

• 3 years’ experience of delivery within a secure Defence (preferred) or @3 environment
• Excellent leadership skills, with experience having managed complex technical solutions, with engineering teams of at least 20 plus resources
• 5+ years’ experience in a senior technical role either managing a technical service provision or as a senior architect working within projects and programs
• Outstanding communications skills with the ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and non-technical audiences
• Experience managing escalations effectively
• Experience in managing and supporting major IT transformations (from a technical, not project management perspective).
• Knowledge and experience of IDAM solutions
• Demonstrable experience in introducing automation
• Experience working in a highly secure environment with complex security requirements

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Automation Technologies: Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell
• Experience with VMware vRealize Product Set
• Experience with Linux
• Experience supporting Windows Operating Systems
• Experience with Forcepoint Security Products
• Awareness of EMCON and HMG Security Standards
• Experience with NIST Cyber Security Framework
• Experience delivering projects using SAFe (or any other Agile methodology)

Reasonable Adjustments:

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