£Up to £110,000 GBP
Onsite WORKING
Location: Bristol; Gloucester; Cardiff; Plymouth; Belfast; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Manchester; Liverpool; Leeds; Sheffield; Norwich; , Bristol, South West - United Kingdom Type: PermanentClient:
Join a world-class organisation where your work supports the UK’s most critical Defence, Healthcare, and Public Sector programmes. Our client has been recognised as a Times Top 100 Company for 7 years in a row, delivering impact through technology, transformation, and consulting, underpinned by a culture of innovation, collaboration, and integrity.As a Technical Architect, you will lead the design and delivery of modern data-driven solutions, ensuring high-quality integration and performance across distributed systems. Our client works on the UK’s most Mission-Critical Defence Projects where you’ll work alongside talented colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security to build scalable, secure, and high-performing platforms. You will also contribute to technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, and help foster an inclusive, collaborative culture within the data and architecture community.Our client invests in cutting-edge tools, learning opportunities, and professional development, empowering teams to grow and thrive. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are supported, alongside a strong focus on wellbeing.Take the opportunity to do meaningful work, shape the data platforms that underpin the nation’s most important services, and build long-lasting professional relationships in a culture that genuinely values your growth. This role is perfect for a Technical Architect seeking real impact, career progression, and the chance to work on the most bespoke defence projects in the UK.You’ll have the opportunity to:
• Successfully implement functional and non-functional technical designs.
• Collaborate closely with customer architects to define solution standards, effort estimates, and technical implications.
• Set technical standards and ensure they are upheld by engineering teams.
• Manage and estimate delivery timelines for complex technical components.
• Contribute to or lead technical solution design during pre-sales cycles.
• Mentor, coach, and guide team members while shaping the wider data and analytics capability.
• Make a meaningful contribution to the data analysis community and technical direction of key programmes.Key Requirements:
• Experience owning the technical architecture for a component, subsystem, or product (e.g., data ingestion or streaming).
• Strong client interaction skills with the ability to present technical decisions to non-technical audiences.
• Experience applying design patterns, development standards, and operational readiness practices.
• Proven experience designing, building, and productionising distributed, data-intensive applications.
• Proficient in Java, Scala, or Python, with comfort across multiple programming paradigms.
• Experience deploying contemporary data stores (object, document, key-value, search, RDBMS, graph).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or Databricks data-processing platforms.
• Comfortable with data integration techniques such as messaging, queuing, CDC, or data virtualisation.Desirable:
• Understanding of Data Warehouse techniques.
• Contributions to engineering or data communities.
• Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) in data services.
• Experience driving continuous improvement and modern data best practices.Benefits:
• Competitive Bonus
• Private Medical Cover
• Company Share Plan
• Generous Holiday Package (Ability to Buy and Sell)
• Training and Development
• Comprehensive Pension PackageReference: AMC/AON/Palantir#aao
