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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