Tech Architect Practitioner

Role overview A fully remote Technical Architect position based anywhere in Europe, supporting complex technology engagements for private equity investors and portfolio company leadership. The role focuses on shaping pragmatic target architectures, assessing current-state capabilities, and advising senior stakeholders on cloud, application, integration, data, and delivery decisions that drive measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities - Lead technical architecture workstreams, assessing current-state applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, integration patterns, data platforms, and technical constraints. - Define pragmatic target-state architectures aligned with business priorities, scalability, resilience, security, and delivery feasibility. - Advise on technology platform choices spanning cloud, application modernisation, integration, delivery tooling, and analytics. - Translate business and technical requirements into architecture principles, designs, transition plans, and delivery priorities. - Develop evidence-based recommendations credible with senior technology leaders and accessible to non-technical stakeholders. - Identify risks, dependencies, technical debt, and delivery constraints, recommending practical mitigation strategies.

Requirements - Significant experience in technical, solutions, or enterprise architecture, with a track record of designing and delivering complex technology solutions. - Strong practical knowledge of cloud platforms, application architectures, infrastructure, integration patterns, security, and reliability. - Experience assessing existing technology estates and defining target architectures and roadmaps. - Meaningful depth in data architecture, including warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, modelling, governance, and analytics. - Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders. - Credibility engaging with CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, and senior engineering leaders.

Nice to have - Consulting, advisory, or multi-client delivery experience. - Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.