Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year
Requirements: - Experience leading technical discussions between internal teams and external stakeholders, clearly communicating concepts and driving continuous improvement.
- Experience evaluating products and tools and providing enterprise-appropriate recommendations.
- Experience developing an understanding of user needs to design user-centred technical service propositions.
- Experience identifying business problems and recommending technical solutions and designs.
- Experience undertaking structural analysis of technical issues and translating this into technical designs that describe a solution.
- Experience building collaborative relationships with partners across teams and services.
- Experience articulating technical requirements and implications clearly to technical and non-technical colleagues, senior leaders, business partners and customers.
- Experience working with innovators to design aspirational concepts for future services and processes.
- Experience mentoring colleagues.
- Experience governing high- and low-level designs with full lifecycle management, from requirements management to supporting operations teams with service introduction.
- Strong communication skills with colleagues, business partners, customers and senior leaders.
- Ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences and translate technical concepts so they are understood by all.
- Experience in technical governance and delivering assurance of a service.
- Ability to make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
- Ability to apply technology strategy that meets business and customer needs, including creating, refining and challenging standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
- Experience working with business and technology partners to translate business problems into technical designs across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.
- Understanding of trends and practices outside your team and organisation, their potential impact and how they fit into broader strategy.
- Ability to look beyond the immediate technical problem and identify wider implications within the broader context.
- Cloud computing knowledge and experience designing and implementing cloud, hybrid or equivalent solutions.
- Software development and technical architecture experience.
- Knowledge of innovative and emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial and Synthetic Data, Cryptocurrencies and Open Banking.
- Agile methodologies and principles experience.
Responsibilities: - Work alongside User Researchers, Analysts, Designers, Product Managers, Software Developers, Architects, policy, innovation and technology specialists.
- Develop innovative approaches for digital products that are part of end-to-end services across HMRC and government.
- Interpret and react to small, medium and large-scale challenges, identifying potential and future opportunities.
- Use emerging technology, data and user needs to develop innovative concepts and solutions.
- Support Innovation colleagues with technical and architecture expertise.
- Design proof of concepts to test solutions for future services.
- Work with internal groups, third parties, external suppliers and academia to develop concepts and MVPs.
- Run proof of value exercises to demonstrate customer and HMRC impact.
- Contribute to business cases and make recommendations for future direction.
- Deliver recommendations to senior partners to influence policy and strategy.
- Rapidly develop an understanding of technologies in use and the overall architecture strategy.
- Work closely with Innovation scrum teams, business partners and IT colleagues to design innovative but appropriate solutions.
- Ensure solutions demonstrate that new technology and approaches can deliver improvements and fit with strategic end-to-end functional design.
- Work creatively in a fail fast manner on inception and discovery projects where scope and concept are not clearly defined.
- Technical skills assessed during selection: architecting for the whole context, architecture communication, community collaboration, marking architectural decisions, strategy design, and technical design throughout the lifecycle.
Technologies: - Architect
- Cloud
- Support
- Network
- React
- AWS
- Azure
- LESS
- Security
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We are HM Revenue and Customs, and within our Chief Digital & Information Group we are growing our network of digital delivery centres across the UK. Our small, agile Innovation Team sits within our Chief Technology and Design Office and focuses on technical innovation to improve the UK tax system through continuous exploration, user-centred design and new technology. This Senior Technical Architect role is part of our multidisciplinary Innovation Team and wider Architecture community, supporting large-scale transformation with impact for customers and staff. We offer flexible and hybrid working, with office-based working expected for 60% of working time and home working available where the role allows. Our salary is 58,541 to 72,711 per year, with a generous Civil Service pension contribution, 25 days leave rising to 30 days, family-friendly policies, personal support, coaching and development. Locations include Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Telford, Worthing, Stratford-upon-Avon, Reading, Cardiff, Edinburgh and other UK locations.
last updated 36 week of 2026