Lead Technical Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong enterprise architecture and solution design experience
• Cloud architecture experience across Azure, AWS and/or GCP
• Strong knowledge of system integration and API architecture
• Experience designing microservices and distributed systems
• Experience contributing to technical strategy and roadmap planning
• Strong understanding of software architecture patterns and best practices

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural direction across complex technology environments
• Help shape technical strategy, solution design and longer-term technology roadmaps
• Work across cloud, integration and software architecture
• Apply appropriate architecture patterns and best practices
• Lead enterprise architecture and solution design
• Develop cloud architecture across Azure, AWS and/or GCP
• Shape system integration and API architecture
• Design microservices and distributed systems
• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap planning
• Define and apply software architecture patterns and best practices

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• GCP
• microservices

More:

We are recruiting a Lead Technical Architect to join an organisation seeking expertise in enterprise and solution design, cloud architecture, systems integration and modern distributed systems. The role is remote, with occasional travel to London. The contract length is to be confirmed, and the position is inside IR35. We are Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited, acting as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business supplying temporary workers.

last updated 43 week of 2026