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Senior Technical Architect x 2
Job Posted: 12 hours ago
Salary: £ 55,233 - 70,233 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
The Technical Architect will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering our Agency's technology vision, focusing on the strategic transition from on-premise to cloud services while ensuring business continuity.
Client Details
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.
Description
The Technical Architect will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering our Agency's technology vision, focusing on the strategic transition from on-premise to cloud services while ensuring business continuity. This senior position will be responsible for designing and overseeing complex technical solutions that align with public sector requirements, security standards, and modernisation initiatives. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust Technical Architectures that protect the Agency's systems from threats and vulnerabilities. Your primary goal is to ensure that all IT services and solutions are secure by design and compliant with government security policies and standards. This role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical knowledge, an understanding of emerging threats, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to embed security principles throughout the IT landscape. You will maintain relationships with relevant suppliers, making sure services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice and regulatory and contractual requirements.
Key responsibilities:
Technical Architecture Design
Support the development and maintenance of the technical architecture roadmap, with particular emphasis on cloud migration strategies and hybrid infrastructure to support wider Agency objectives
Support the development and maintenance of the Technical Architecture Reference Model to ensure it aligns with the IT strategy, government policies, and best practices
Provide technical governance and oversight across IT projects, ensuring solutions meet security, scalability, and compliance requirements specific to UK public sector standards (including GDS standards and Technology Code of Practice).
Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, cloud services, and architectural patterns that could benefit the Agency, maintaining awareness of technology trends and best practices
Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration
Act as the Senior Technical Architect for project teams, providing expert guidance on requirements, design considerations, and risk management. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical architecture is integrated into all aspects of the Agency's digital transformation initiatives. Influence and educate technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, and across organisations, using architecture communication techniques. Mediate between people in difficult architectural discussions
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
Proactively identify opportunities to improve the Technical Architecture and reduce risk through innovation, new technologies, and process improvements. Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in Technical Architecture, bringing forward recommendations for improvement.
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Profile
Our successful candidate will have:
Good IT experience in architectural roles
Familiarity with UK public sector regulations, standards, and frameworks, such as the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP)
Experience with both on-premise and cloud technologies
Experience in leading cloud migration initiatives and managing hybrid environments
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies
Track record of delivering complex technical solutions, within a public sector environment is desirable but not essential
Proven experience designing and implementing secure cloud architectures and understanding of cloud security principles across major cloud platforms
Experience of Healthcare/Medicines/Devices industries, Regulatory bodies desirable but not essentialThis role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical knowledge, an understanding of emerging threats, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to embed security principles throughout the IT landscape.
You will maintain relationships with relevant suppliers, making sure services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice and regulatory and contractual requirements.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Any move to the MHRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility
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