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As a GDS Lead Technical architect, you’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. You will help design and drive the technical strategy for the area you work in while ensuring alignment with broader GDS standards and goals. You’ll hold the vision for technical architecture best practice in building resilient and reliable government services and communicate this to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Lead Technical Architects often work across different teams and services. You’ll ensure that technical designs meet user needs and acceptance criteria, whilst conforming to time and budget constraints. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you’ll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. As a Lead Technical Architect, you’ll: lead by example, be a visible leader who takes responsibility and acts as a role model contribute to the development and iteration of GDS architectural and engineering practices, principles and standards design technical services or plan system integration, selecting necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring designs & solutions are fit for purpose, whilst meeting time and budget restraints build and maintain technical roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by development teams align with the strategy encourage communication across multiple teams and wider organisational areas to identify strategic requirements and dependencies help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes advise teams on the right mix of capabilities to achieve their roadmapped goals and desired service levels act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc be involved in helping recruiting technical architects and other senior technologists, where appropriate, helping sift and interview manage, coach and mentor more junior Technical Architects as well as others in the wider software engineering community