Senior Technical Architect

Senior Technical Architect – Student Loans Company

Salary: £61,950.00 – £72,952.00 GBP Annual + up to £10,000 DDAT allowance per annum. Pension: Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%. Full time. Notice: The advert will close at 11:59PM the night before the listed closing date.

Job Overview

As a Senior Technical Architect within SLC’s Architecture team, you will shape and govern the organisation’s technical direction, defining and refining architectures and designs that support major change programmes. You will ensure alignment with SLC’s principles, strategies, and enterprise roadmap while working across a diverse application estate from Commercial Off the Shelf solutions to micro‑service platforms both on‑prem and on‑cloud. You will contribute to technical roadmaps, lead design assurance activities, and promote innovation by exploring new technologies and approaches.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and govern the organisation’s technical direction
• Define and refine architectures and designs for major change programmes
• Ensure alignment with SLC’s principles, strategies and enterprise roadmap
• Work across diverse application estate from Commercial Off the Shelf solutions to micro‑service platforms
• Contribute to development of technical roadmaps and lead design assurance activities
• Promote innovation by exploring new technologies and approaches
• Collaborate with business and technical colleagues and communicate architectural designs to varied audiences
• Support technical teams in their development

What You Bring

• Ability to make architecture decisions while solving high‑risk architecture issues, assuring services against broader government standards, and managing architectural risks
• Confidence translating complex technical concepts into non‑technical language for senior stakeholders and presenting at various forums
• Collaborative mindset with initiative to identify problems or issues in team dynamics and rectify them
• Capacity to advocate or influence innovation initiatives and gain buy‑in through collaboration with engineering, product and business teams
• Evidence‑based decision‑making skills, e.g. translation of PoC findings into actionable recommendations
• Ability to provide risk assessment and mitigation
• Capacity to assess maturity, risk, interoperability and sustainability of technologies while understanding and communicating complexity and architecture fit
• Self‑starting approach with ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
• Advanced proficiency in conceptual, logical, physical and semantic data modelling for operational and analytical systems
• Experience in design and delivery of data pipelines using enterprise integration patterns and tooling from on‑prem and cloud data sources to enterprise data warehouse and data lakehouse architecture
• Experience working with software delivery partners in a multi‑vendor environment, including pre‑contract engagement, preparation of invitations to tender and tender evaluation
• Experience and knowledge of design & delivery of data services from at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience of architecture design assurance and presentation at technical assurance board and architecture review board for information and approval

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
• Option to buy/sell annual leave
• Flexi‑time and enhanced flexible working options
• Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
• Life insurance cover for 4×annual salary
• Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options, including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle‑to‑work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club, and optional dental insurance scheme

Legal and EDI

• Right to work in the UK must be confirmed; employment may be subject to background checks including employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check.
• Student Loans Company is a proud Disability Confident Leader and is committed to an inclusive recruitment experience that empowers people of all abilities.
• Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled candidates in line with the Equality Act 2010; candidates may request adjustments during the application process.
• AI may be used in job applications, but all examples and statements must be truthful and accurate; plagiarism may lead to withdrawal or disciplinary action.

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