General information
Reference
001913
Publication start date
18/07/2025
Publication end date
01/08/2025
Post Description
Technical Architect
Vacancy location
Location
South West, Gloucestershire, Rosehill - Hybrid
Vacancy details
Job Profile
Digital Services - Technology Architecture
Title
Technical Architect
Contract Type
Full Time
About us
UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.
UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.
We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.
Business Unit description
The Digital Services business unit is at the heart of UCAS’ technical innovation, data and infrastructure. It focuses on leveraging data science, technology, and enterprise architecture to enhance UCAS' digital products and services.
The unit is dedicated to developing and improving customer-centric digital solutions, ensuring seamless and secure online experiences for all users. By providing insightful data and analysis, often made available to anyone with free-to-use intuitive dashboard, Digital Services empowers the Higher Education sector and those interested in the sector with valuable information to make informed decisions. By working in collaborative, expert led, multi-disciplinary teams, Digital Services drives UCAS’ mission to connect students with their next opportunities through advanced technological solutions.
About the role
Contractual Hours
35.00
About the role
The Technical Architect will work with the development teams to support the detailed implementation of Solution Architecture designs on a day-to-day basis. The Technical Architect should act as conduit and ambassador between architecture and development translating the designs into working software solutions and ensuring alignment to the architectural principles and design patterns.
Key accountabilities:
- Provide deep specialist knowledge of the relevant technologies for UCAS engineering teams including coaching and mentoring to the engineering teams.
- Accountable for producing & documenting detailed low-level technical software and interface specifications from solution architecture designs, ensuring correct governance procedures are followed.
- Collaborate with development teams and architects to ensure clear understanding of designs and any implementation details are resolved in line with strategic targets.
- Responsible for ensuring services and components adhere to the relevant architecture principles, standards, policies, and engineering guardrails.
- Develop prototypes and undertake evaluation work to support solution architecture design.
- Create and maintain any necessary technical documentation for both internal and external audiences.
You can find the full job description in the attached role profile below.
Skills, qualifications, and experience
- Five+ years’ experience in software development for high-scale, resilient, secure cloud-based web applications with API led connectivity, OR equivalent expertise.
• Able to demonstrate relevant software design skills
• A highly organised individual, comfortable working with and influencing peers at a high technical level.
• Educated to degree level in relevant computing discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ability to build positive and productive collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and business partners.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate effectively to both non- technical and technical audiences
- Experience of working successfully in a dynamic, large-scale agile department with multiple technologies.
- Able to adapt various ways of working and approaches according to the need
Knowledge and understanding of the following is desirable:
- Microsoft technologies (Azure, O365, SharePoint, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS) and .Net architectures. (C#, .Net Core/.Net 6.0 and above, Web API, MVC)
• Java technologies (Java, JSP, Servlets)
• Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres and MySQL database technologies
• Understanding of AWS products and services along with experience of using AWS to integrate applications.
• Salesforce
Package
Salary - up to £65,000
- 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)
- Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
• A generous pension scheme
- Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox
• Internal training and development
• Subsidised gym and café
- Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme
- Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion
Working Arrangements
Is fully remote working an option?
No
Attachments
Attachment
Technical Architect role profile - November 2022.pdf (335 Kb)
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