Chief Technical Architect
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Chief Technical Architect
Lead the technical strategy for a high-impact account and shape resilient, secure, and scalable cloud solutions. This is a senior leadership role where you’ll act as the trusted advisor to clients while driving architecture, innovation, and service excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Define architecture strategy for availability, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Ensure uptime, performance, and service reliability targets are met
- Lead major incident resolution and root cause analysis
- Act as senior technical advisor to client stakeholders
- Translate business needs into secure, compliant technology solutions
- Govern architecture standards (e.g. TOGAF) and solution design quality
- Oversee transformations, migrations, and platform modernisation
- Support presales, bids, and solution design with commercially viable approaches
- Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary technical teams (cloud, infrastructure, networking, security)
Requirements
- Proven experience as a senior architect or technical authority
- Strong expertise in public and private cloud (Azure, IaaS, networking, security)
- Experience with enterprise architecture and governance frameworks
- Knowledge of healthcare IT and regulatory standards (e.g. NHS environments)
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with technologies such as Azure, VMware, Cisco, Fortinet, HPE, or Pure
Benefits
- Work on high-impact, enterprise-scale projects
- Opportunity to shape technical strategy and innovation
- Collaborative and supportive team environment
- Ongoing professional development and certifications
Location: UK - Flexibility to travel to client and London HQ (Walkie Talkie) when required
Apply now to lead enterprise architecture and deliver resilient, future-ready technology solutions.
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