Lead Technical Architect - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - G7

Location: Swansea

Why this role?

As a Lead Technical Architect, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering the technology that supports customer‑facing and internal services at scale. This is a senior, influential role where your architectural decisions will directly support DVLA’s future direction.

If you enjoy setting technical vision, guiding delivery teams and influencing senior leaders, this role offers real scope and impact.

About the role

You’ll work within DVLA’s IT Services (ITS) Directorate, collaborating across:

• Engineering squads
• Architects and technical leads
• Business directorates

You’ll develop architectural patterns and solution designs, working closely with delivery teams to ensure solutions are robust, secure and operationally ready.

What you’ll be doing

As Lead Technical Architect, you will:

• Lead the technical design of systems and services, clearly justifying and communicating architectural decisions
• Assure solution quality, ensuring consistency with DVLA, DfT and government‑wide strategies
• Explore opportunities for cross‑government architectural alignment
• Work collaboratively with engineering squads to transition new solutions into live operation
• Set standards and provide architectural governance and assurance
• Mentor and support architects and engineers across teams
• Provide leadership to the wider architecture community
• Line manage and develop colleagues, creating an environment where people can thrive

Who this role is for

This role would suit someone who:

• Has operated as a technical or solution architect on enterprise‑scale systems
• Is confident owning architecture end‑to‑end, from design through delivery and assurance
• Enjoys working with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Can influence and challenge senior leaders constructively
• Likes balancing strategic vision with practical delivery realities

Essential experience

You’ll need strong experience of:

• Infrastructure and cloud technologies
• Unified communications and omni‑channel contact centre solutions
• Networking concepts (LAN / WAN / WLAN)
• Microsoft Entra ID, O365, and hybrid Active Directory environments
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Adoption Framework principles
• Designing systems that protect sensitive data
• Collaboratively creating and evolving solution designs
• Providing technical leadership, governance and assurance across complex solutions

You’ll bring excellent communication skills and be comfortable engaging with architects, engineers, testers, delivery managers and senior leaders alike.

Interested?

This post gives you a clear overview of the role.

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