Chief Technical Architect

The Chief Technical Architect (CTA) is the senior technical authority for a major account responsible for defining and governing the technical architecture ensuring service resilience and acting as the trusted advisor to the customer. This role is pivotal in maintaining service uptime resolving complex technical challenges and aligning technology solutions with strategic business objectives. The CTA will lead technical governance drive innovation and ensure compliance with healthcare and regulatory standards. 

Key Responsibilities

Service Availability & Resilience

• Set and own the enterprise strategy for availability resilience scalability and disaster recovery.
• Ensure platforms consistently meet uptime performance and resilience targets.
• Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and drive remediation before service impact.

Technical Authority & Incident Leadership

• Act as the final technical escalation point for critical incidents and systemic issues.
• Lead rapid root cause analysis and define long-term corrective actions.
• Partner with engineering and operations to eliminate recurring failure patterns.

Client Advisory & Strategic Alignment

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior client stakeholders.
• Translate business objectives into secure compliant and sustainable technology solutions.
• Shape client technology roadmaps in line with industry best practice and regulatory standards (including NHS where applicable).

Architecture Governance & Assurance

• Define and enforce architecture principles standards and frameworks (e.g. TOGAF).
• Assure solution designs for security compliance operability and cost efficiency.
• Govern major transformations migrations and platform modernisation initiatives.

Change & Risk Governance

• Provide architectural oversight for high-impact and high-risk changes.
• Ensure technical risk is assessed understood and accepted before change approval.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of architectural operational and security risk.

Commercial & Presales Leadership

• Support presales by shaping viable differentiated technical solutions.
• Balance innovation with cost delivery risk and commercial return.
• Contribute to bids proposals and pricing strategies to ensure solutions are competitive and deliverable.

Qualifications :

Leadership & Mentoring 

• Lead technical teams across domains (Azure infrastructure networking cyber). 
• Mentor architects and engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence. 

Essential Skills & Experience 

• Proven experience as a senior architect or technical authority in large-scale environments. 
• Expertise in Azure IaaS networking and security architectures. 
• Strong understanding of healthcare IT systems and compliance frameworks. 
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. 
• Certifications: TOGAF Azure Solutions Architect Expert ITIL (preferred). 

Additional Information :

At Telefónica Tech we believe inclusion is the bridge that empowers everyone to be their authentic selves. We celebrate and respect our differences because diversity drives innovation and makes us stronger.
 
Be yourself with us and feel that you belong. 

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities regardless of age disability gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex and sexual orientation. 
 
We are also committed to equity accessible hiring practices and creating an inclusive culture through many means including TogetHer (Womens network) and our Employee Resource Groups which include Diversity and Inclusion Telefónica Tech Pride Neurodiversity ELEVATE (African and Caribbean heritage network) and Sustainability.

 We dont believe hiring is a tick box exercise so if you feel that you dont match the job description 100% but would still be a great fit for role please get in touch. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time