Technical Architect

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.  

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do:  

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner  

• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business  

• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK  

• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW  

• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW  

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!. 

Job Description

Open to SC Cleared and SC eligible candidates the Technical Architect (Oversight / Technical Owner) will act as the senior technical owner within the Version 1 delivery organisation working closely with a key customer. The role is accountable for maintaining technical integrity across the service landscape and for providing governance, assurance and informed challenge to delivery teams and suppliers.

Working closely with our internal teams and our customer's technical stakeholders, service managers, project managers, architects, security teams and senior leaders, you will ensure that proposed and implemented solutions remain aligned with service objectives, architecture principles, security requirements and operational support models.

• Act as the Version 1 technical owner for the service with our customer, maintaining end-to-end technical coherence across applications, cloud platforms, integrations and support services.
• Provide architecture governance and technical assurance for solution designs, Statements of Work, service designs, technical roadmaps, change proposals and supplier deliverables.
• Lead or support design reviews and technical governance forums, ensuring that decisions, assumptions, constraints and exceptions are clearly recorded.
• Review and challenge technical proposals to ensure they are secure, resilient, maintainable, supportable and proportionate to the service need.
• Make technical decisions within delegated authority and provide evidence-based recommendations to our customer where decision authority or risk ownership is retained by them.