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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Technical Architect to develop current, transition, and target solution architectures for infrastructure and technology change. You will partner with Technology Strategy & Architecture to ensure alignment with enterprise direction and governance.
Responsibilities
- Support adoption of approved strategic technologies, platforms, architecture patterns, and engineering practices.
- Translate business, service, security, and operational needs into clear architecture requirements and solution options.
- Produce and maintain architecture artefacts, including High-Level Designs, Solution Designs, context diagrams, transition architectures, roadmaps, non-functional requirements, decision records, and traceability to requirements.
- Lead technical design workshops, bringing together specialists across various domains.
- Set architectural direction and assure detailed designs produced by engineering teams and suppliers.
- Evaluate solution options and provide clear recommendations covering value, cost, risk, complexity, delivery feasibility, commercial constraints, supplier dependency, interoperability, exit implications, and strategic fit.
- Experience working in a regulated, security-conscious, or operationally critical environment.
Requirements
- Significant experience as an infrastructure, solution, or technology architect delivering complex change within a large organisation.
- Current active SC clearance holder or SC clearance eligible.
- Demonstrable experience delivering technology modernization, including migration from legacy platforms, adoption of strategic technologies, reduction of technical debt, improved operational resilience, and modern engineering practices.
- Proven delivery of enterprise-scale infrastructure modernization or transformation, from early shaping through implementation.
- Broad understanding across enterprise infrastructure, with demonstrable architecture depth in at least two relevant domains and the ability to integrate specialist input across public and hybrid cloud, networks, datacentres, compute, virtualisation, storage, backup, identity, platform services, automation, and cyber security.
- Demonstrable experience creating target architectures, transition states, technology roadmaps, and solution designs.
Skills
- TOGAF
- BCS
- Azure
- Platform engineering
- Cloud-native architecture
- AI-assisted operations
- Modern technology operating models
- Azure Local
- Hybrid cloud
- Modern platform engineering approaches
- Zero Trust
- Privileged access
- Secrets management
- Certificate management
- Secure-by-design delivery
- Infrastructure as Code
- Configuration automation
- CI/CD
- Self-service technology platforms
Location
- London
- Leeds
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Lead
Education Level
- Architecture certification
- Relevant professional accreditation
Benefits
- Full range of benefits
About the Company
- Peregrine builds workforces that deliver tech and change programmes at leading UK organisations.
- We combine data science, industry-accredited training, and market-leading attraction and diversity initiatives to bridge capability gaps.
- We work closely with clients to understand their challenges and deliver flexible, long-term solutions.
- Peregrine focuses on growth for employees, clients, and supported sectors.
- As a permanent employee, you’ll work on-site or remotely with clients on complex, high-impact projects in Data, Digital, and Business Transformation.
- We offer the variety and challenge of consultancy work with the stability and support of a permanent role.
- We are curious, open, and always learning, believing in doing great work with integrity.
- We support each other, share ideas freely, and celebrate progress.
- We care about the impact we make, helping clients solve tough problems and creating opportunities for people from all walks of life.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be a diverse team, with 20+ nationalities represented across Peregrine.
- We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences, and we’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Through our partnerships and internal initiatives, we’re working to improve social mobility, reduce our environmental impact, and help our clients build more inclusive teams too.