Senior Technical Architect

Student Loans Company

Senior Technical Architect shaping and governing the technical direction of SLC’s architecture team. Define architectures supporting major change programmes and collaborate with diverse teams.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeGlasgow • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £61,950 - £72,952 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Help shape and govern the organisation’s technical direction
Define and refine architectures and designs that support major change programmes, ensuring they align with SLC’s principles, strategies, and enterprise roadmap
Work across a diverse application estate from Commercial Off the Shelf Solutions through to micro service-based platforms both on prem and on cloud
Contribute to the development of technical roadmaps
Lead design assurance activities
Promote innovation by exploring new technologies and approaches
Collaborate closely with business and technical colleagues
Communicate architectural designs to varied audiences
Support technical teams in their development

Requirements

What you’ll need

Ability to make architecture decisions while solving high risk architecture issues, assuring services against broader government standards, and managing architectural risks
Confident translating complex technical concepts into non-technical language for senior stakeholders and presenting at various forums
Ability to work collaboratively in a group or team and actively network with others while using your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them
Capacity to advocate or influence innovation initiatives and gain buy-in through collaboration with engineering, product and business teams
Evidence-based decision-making skills e.g. translation of PoC findings into actionable recommendations. Providing risk assessment and mitigation
Ability to assess maturity, risk, interoperability and sustainability of technologies while understanding and communicating complexity and architecture fit
A self‑starting approach with the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively
Advanced proficiency in conceptual, logical, physical and semantic data modelling for operational and analytical systems
Experience in design and delivery of data pipelines using enterprise integration patterns and tooling from on-prem and cloud data sources to enterprise data warehouse and data lakehouse architecture
Experience working with software delivery partners in a multi-vendor environment, including pre-contract engagement, preparation of invitations to tender and tender evaluation
Experience and knowledge of design & delivery of data services from at least one of public cloud providers e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
Experience of architecture design assurance and presentation at technical assurance board and architecture review board for information and approval

Benefits

Comp & perks

28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
Option to buy/sell annual leave
Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme

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Hard Skills & Tools

architecture decisionsdata modellingdata pipelinesenterprise integration patternsdata warehousedata lakehouse architecturedesign assurancerisk assessmentcloud servicesmicroservices

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvinginfluencingevidence-based decision-makingself-startingnetworkinginitiativepresentation skillsadvocacy