Technical Architect

Methods Analytics is recruiting for a Technical Architect to join our team on a permanent basis. This role is largely remote but requires flexibility for travel to client sites and our offices in London, Sheffield, and Bristol.

Salary range: £70,000 - £90,000

Methods Analytics (MA) exists to improve society by helping people make better decisions with data. We combine passionate people, sector‑specific insight, and technical excellence to provide our customers an end‑to‑end data service.

Responsibilities

• Specialise in cloud platforms, applications, data, and supporting infrastructure.
• Collaboration with delivery team across projects, translating data into valuable insights for transformation programmes.
• Translate business problems into technical designs, creating optimal solutions through iterative processes.
• Advocate the business benefit of data standards, championing governance across projects and the organisation.
• Recognise and exploit business opportunities to ensure efficient and effective organisational performance, setting architecture standards.
• Develop an overall perspective on business issues, determining patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps, and vision statements.
• Make and guide effective decisions, explaining how decisions were reached and resolving technical disputes at varying complexity and risk levels.
• Communicate across organisational, technical, and political boundaries, simplifying complex technical information for non‑technical audiences.
• Expose data from systems (e.g., APIs), link data from multiple systems, and deliver streaming services.
• Ensure deployment risks are understood and documented.

Ideal Candidate

• Ability to look beyond immediate technical problems and identify wider implications.
• Solid experience in a range of technologies and ability to make assessments for projects and the organisation.
• Experience in designing technical services and selecting from core digital platforms.
• Strong experience in software development, release management, and technical governance.
• Infrastructure design experience for on‑prem and cloud, implementing or migrating to Azure and AWS.
• Experience in functional and non‑functional testing, including automated deployment.
• Knowledge of Government Digital Service manual and standards across Discovery/Alpha/Beta/Live phases.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS technologies and their implications.
• Effective communication across organisational, technical, and political boundaries.
• Ability to simplify complex technical information for non‑technical audiences.
• Translate technical concepts, advocate, and communicate functions to create trust and authenticity.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications.
• Attention to detail and ability to QA own and others’ work.
• Provide training, support, and mentoring to the wider business.
• Stay up to date with advances in data services and architectural practices.
• Document deployment risks adequately.

Requirements

• Minimum certification of AZ-900 & AZ-104 required; AZ-305 desirable.
• Exposure to high‑performance, low‑latency or large‑volume data systems (≥1 billion records).
• Ability to make and guide effective decisions, explaining reasoning.
• Resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• Design or operate Azure/AWS hosted analytics applications, databases, or services, including Machine Learning.
• Worked as part of multi‑disciplinary project teams, e.g., collaboration with UX.

Security Clearance

UKSV clearance required for this role, with Security Check (SC) as the minimum standard.

By joining us you can expect

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience.
• Be part of exciting project work that makes a difference in society.
• Strong, inspiring, and thought‑provoking leadership.
• A supportive and collaborative environment.

As well as this, we offer

• Development access to Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning.
• Wellness 24/7 confidential employee assistance programme.
• Social – office parties, pizza Friday, and commitment to charitable causes.
• Time off – 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 5 extra days each year.
• Volunteering – 2 paid days per year to volunteer in local communities or charities.
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance.
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary.
• Private Medical Insurance non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included).
• Worldwide Travel Insurance non‑contributory (spouse and dependants included).

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology