We are looking for a Lead Technical Architect with a background in data and software development to support a major UK Government programme from locations throughout the UK.
Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company’s 33,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers.
THE ROLE YOU WILL PLAY
You will work closely with the programme delivery manager, fellow technical specialists, external partners and our customer’s teams to support the discovery, design, delivery and operation of a wide range of data solutions. You will undertake the following activities:
• Lead the technical design of services and solutions.
• Provide assurance of the design and delivery of services and solutions, ensuring they are secure, maximise automation and re-use and meet all customer technical requirements and standards.
• Provide technical leadership to other architects.
• Provide mentoring across internal and customer teams.
PROFILE
Required Skills:
• Ability to interact well with the most senior customer stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical discussions into business terms.
• Experience of creating and sustaining high level relationships with vendors, providers, and contractors.
• Solid writing and communication skills.
• Experience of designing, developing and integrating secure solutions in public cloud environments (e.g., AWS or Microsoft Azure).
• Experience managing and deriving requirements and establishing and maintaining traceability between them and solution components.
• Experience of standard engineering and service management methodologies.
• Experience of database technology such as MySQL, Oracle or Amazon Redshift.
• Experience of one of the following: Power BI, Pentaho Business Analytics, ElasticSearch, Solr, Apache Kafka.
• Mentoring and coaching.
Desired Skills:
• Experience of Python and its numerical, data and machine learning libraries.
• Exposure to ETL tooling.
• Exposure to data science and analytical tooling such as SAS or Posit.
• Design and development of solutions in performance critical environments.
This position is a full time, permanent role and applicants must have (or be able to acquire) BPSS clearance. Ad-hoc travel may be required to various customer and Leidos sites
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