Technical Architect

As a Technical Architect, you will combine broad, hands-on experience across technology solutions with expertise in cloud, microservices, and integration, with a focus on Microsoft Azure and modern development patterns. 

Your architectural vision will directly shape the digital experience for thousands of advisers and clients, helping us deliver secure, scalable, and cutting-edge solutions. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that every solution - from cloud platforms to business applications - is secure by design and aligned with our strategy. 

The benefits:

• Salary - up to £90k
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus 15%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

 Key Accountabilities:

• Lead the design and evolution of Openwork’s technology landscape, ensuring our architecture is robust, future-ready, and aligned with business strategy. 
•  Champion best practices in cloud, microservices, and integration, with a focus on Microsoft Azure and modern development patterns.
• Mentor and inspire engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Play a pivotal role in our Technical Design Authority, shaping standards and guiding major technology decisions.
• Drive the migration from legacy systems to modern, cloud-native platforms, unlocking agility and new capabilities.
• Collaborate Broadly: Work with solution, data, and infrastructure architects to deliver integrated, secure architectures that enable business outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Empathetically translate complex security and technology concepts into business language for senior leaders and delivery teams.
• Technology Leadership: Provide input into standards, reference architectures, and target operating models. 

• Cloud Platforms & Modern Development: Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, especially Microsoft Azure, and modern development patterns such as microservices and integration strategies.  
• Microsoft Solutions: Proficiency in Microsoft-based technologies, including Azure, Office 365, Entra ID, Dynamics, .NET, and API management.
• Integration & Migration: Experience integrating third-party systems and driving migration from legacy systems to modern platforms.
• Regulatory Requirements: Understanding of compliance standards, including Data Protection, Financial Crime, Code of Conduct, Health and Safety, and Financial Conduct Authority Standards.
• Evaluating New Technologies: Capability to evaluate and introduce new technologies, tools, and frameworks to keep the organization at the forefront of digital innovation
• Systems Design: Knowledge of designing and developing IT architecture solutions to business problems, including technical planning and architecture development.  
• Integration Across Technologies: Understanding compatibility and integration of products/services to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.
• Financial Services & Regulated Environments: Experience as a technical, solution, or application architect, ideally within financial services or regulated sectors.

We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.