Scaled Agile Technical Architect
Location: Hampshire (onsite 5 days per week)
Due to the nature of the work and the customers supported, the successful candidate must be eligible to meet UK Government and contractual personnel security requirements, including the applicable residency requirements for the role, and have the right to work in the United Kingdom. Some roles may also be subject to nationality requirements where these are necessary to meet UK Government or contractual security obligation.
Responsibilities
•Technical Design: Translate SAFe features and enablers into clean, scalable architectural designs and technical stories.
•Code Quality & Governance: Establish coding standards, conduct rigorous peer code reviews, and drive down technical debt.
•Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with system architects and other Tech Leads to align dependencies across multiple Scrum teams.
•Mentorship: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
•Deep expertise in full-stack software development, modern programming languages, and cloud-native patterns.
•Proven track record of designing and delivering secure, high-availability enterprise applications.
•Strong familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and infrastructure-as-code.
•Pragmatic decision-making capability balancing technical perfection with delivery pragmatism.
•Clear communicator able to explain complex architecture to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
•Inspiring leader who empowers team members to take ownership.
Requirements
•Professional Experience: IT engineering and application architecture experience, including experience in a senior developer or technical lead capacity guiding Agile/SAFe teams.
•Education & Foundational Benchmark: IT / Engineering NVQ Level 4, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
•Professional Certifications: Professional developer or cloud architecture credential (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Developer Associate); Agile / SAFe certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner / Agile Software Engineer); ITIL Foundation.
At DXC Technology, the work model prioritizes in-person collaboration while offering flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances.
