As a Technical Architect you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology landscape, ensuring that solutions — from cloud platforms to business applications — are scalable, maintainable and secure by design, with security considerations embedded proportionately where relevant.
Your architectural vision will directly shape the digital experience for thousands of advisers and clients, helping us deliver secure, scalable, and cutting-edge solutions.
A T-shaped architect who combines broad, hands-on experience across technology solutions with expertise in cloud, microservices, and integration, with a focus on Microsoft Azure and modern development patterns.
This is a 9 month fixed term contract hybrid role based in Swindon, with 3 days required in the office.
The benefits:
- Salary - up to £73,500
- 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.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Lead the design and evolution of Openwork’s technology landscape, ensuring architecture is robust, future-ready and aligned with business strategy.
- Champion best practice across cloud, microservices and integration, with a focus on Microsoft Azure, modern development patterns and proportionate security considerations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure and maintainable technology solutions.
- Work with cyber security colleagues to identify practical controls for key architecture decisions.
- Play a key role in the 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.
- Work with solution, data and infrastructure architects to deliver integrated architectures that enable business outcomes.
- Mentor engineering teams and support continuous improvement by staying current with evolving software practices, tools and technologies.