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Job summary

At HM Land Registry (HMLR), we are transforming the way land registration services are delivered through modern technology, innovative architecture and digital services. We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to join our Architecture Practice and play a key role in shaping strategic technology solutions that support our ambitious transformation agenda.

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work across multiple products, services and delivery teams, taking a holistic view of our technology landscape. You will help design and deliver scalable, secure and sustainable technical solutions that meet both current and future business needs.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, influencing technical direction and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Job description

Architecture is a team sport at HMLR. We believe the best solutions are created when people with different perspectives, experiences and technical specialisms work together towards a shared goal.

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will work closely with software engineers, architects, delivery teams and stakeholders across the organisation to design end-to-end solutions that align with business objectives and technical strategy. You will be comfortable working in complex environments, providing clarity where there is ambiguity and ensuring that technology decisions support both immediate delivery needs and long-term organisational goals.

You will take ownership of architectural solutions throughout their lifecycle, considering not only how a solution operates today, but how it scales, evolves and integrates within the wider technology ecosystem.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. If you are passionate about technology and architecture but do not meet every requirement listed, we would still encourage you to apply.

Main Duties

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will:

• Develop and communicate architectural solutions that support HMLR’s strategic objectives and technology roadmap.
• Take a holistic view of the technology landscape, assessing the impact of change across current and future systems.
• Design solutions that are scalable, maintainable, secure and aligned to business and technical strategies.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers, architects and agile delivery teams to develop best-fit technical solutions that deliver value while optimising cost.
• Lead on the architecture of complex initiatives from discovery and design through to delivery and ongoing lifecycle management.
• Identify technical challenges, risks and dependencies, providing clear recommendations and solutions.
• Translate business requirements and strategic objectives into effective technical designs.
• Ensure solutions function effectively within their immediate context and across the wider organisational ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, suppliers and other government departments.
• Negotiate and influence technical decisions, ensuring stakeholders understand options, trade-offs and outcomes.
• Promote compliance with security standards, legal obligations, governance requirements and industry best practice.
• Contribute to architectural communities of practice and support continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies, industry developments and architectural approaches, identifying opportunities to enhance HMLR services.

Additional Requirements

• Occasional travel to other HMLR offices will be required, which may include some overnight stays.

What We Offer

At HMLR, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We value different perspectives and recognise that diverse teams deliver better outcomes. We support flexible working and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, communities and experiences.

By joining us, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of public services, work on meaningful and challenging programmes, and develop your career within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Person specification

To be successful in this role, you will be required to demonstrate the following criteria throughout the recruitment process.

Essential Technical Skills and Qualifications:

Architect for the whole context

You can:

• align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionals
• track emerging issues, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and technologies over time to assess opportunities and risks to your work
• identify how other teams contribute to delivering outcomes through change

Architecture communication

You can:

• lead the communication of complicated, complex or risky architecture topics with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• communicate with senior stakeholders across your organisation
• adapt your message and communication techniques to your audience
• advocate on behalf of a team to other stakeholders
• manage stakeholder expectations effectively

Community collaboration

You can:

• work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others
• adapt feedback to ensure it’s effective and lasting
• use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them
• identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses

Making architectural decisions

You can:

• work with others to make architectural design decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity
• identify and address architectural risks relevant to your team or domain, for example, business, data, or security
• engage with architectural governance and assurance to effectively manage decisions and risks, with support

Strategy design

You can:

• support the development of a strategy or vision that aligns with organisational objectives
• challenge requirements and assumptions, and identify opportunities to develop strategy
• support the implementation of a strategy or vision, for example, by using a roadmap or plan
• use architectural principles, patterns, and constraints when appropriate

Technical design throughout the life cycle

You can:

• create technical designs characterised by medium risk, impact, and complexity
• maintain appropriate quality and architectural coherence of a technical design in response to change
• use feedback to optimise and refine technical designs throughout the life cycle

Note: These skills are based upon the expected skills for a Senior Technical Architect role as defined on Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

Desirable Technical Skills and Qualifications:

There are no essential qualifications required, but being able to evidence having been trained, used or certified in some of the following will be beneficial:

• AWS/Azure cloud provider training programs.
• Agile /Scrum certification.
• Demonstrable use of using industry standard design patterns as part of your solutions (MVC, Microservices, Pub Sub etc.)
• Architecture Frameworks e.g. TOGAF, Zachman etc
• Modelling techniques UML, SYSML etc.
• DevOps Training.
• Wide range of experience of technology domains including
• Engineering and software architecture design
• Technology architecture, infrastructure, cloud platforms
• IT Security architecture: best practice, patterns and standards

Our existing products and technologies include:

• AWS, Azure, OpenShift, IBM Mainframe, Nutanix, Linux, Windows, Postgres, DB2, Oracle, Fusion, MS Dynamics, RabbitMQ, Python, Java, Talend, O365

Some of this list would be expected to be in your kitbag of experience.

Essential Experience:

• Using and understanding of a broad range of technologies, tools and processes.
• Proactively keeping abreast of upcoming technologies and changes in the industry.
• Leading and influencing diverse groups to get to agreement on a technical solution.
• Identifying and managing change and its impact on people, process, technology and information.
• Understanding technology and the needs of stakeholders and then using this knowledge to deliver good architectural designs.
• Showing where you have solved complex problems by managing levels of risk and complexity.
• Structured, logical decomposition of problems using appropriate modelling techniques and languages.
• Taking accountability for end-to-end solutions from initiation to initial delivery and its ongoing lifecycle in line with a strategy.
• Delivering compliance in line with security requirements, legal or legislative responsibilities.
• Supporting or developing technical strategies, principles, patterns and roadmaps.

Desirable Experience:

• Previous Public Sector experience and an understanding of Central Government IT related initiatives, policies and standards
• Experience of the competitive IT procurement life cycle; specifically, solution specification and evaluation criteria
• Experience of building, maintaining and managing relationships with vendors
• Previous Software development experience
• 3rd party software integration.
• Planning for decommissioning, maintainability and scalability.
• Where you have collaborated with multiple teams to deliver the required outcome.

Please note that desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of high application numbers and/or as a tiebreaker.

For further information please see the attached job description.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,400, HM Land Registry contributes £16,628 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Please attach an anonymised CV when prompted and complete the personal statement section (up to a maximum of 500 words), outlining how you meet the following Essential Criteria.

• Leading and influencing diverse groups to get to agreement on a technical solution.
• Understanding technology and the needs of stakeholders and then using this knowledge to deliver good architectural designs.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a blended interview, which we anticipate will be held on week commencing 3 August 2026. You will be asked to deliver a short presentation as part of the interview. Full details will be provided to those successful at sift to support your preparation.

The interview will assess the technical skills and qualifications, experience and behaviours listed in the attached job description.

Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to share these values. Please ensure all examples provided throughout the recruitment process are representative of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating (including the improper use of artificial intelligence) will be investigated and, if proven, the application will be withdrawn.

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role is in a certain business critical category. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a skilled worker visa. You must ensure you have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying.

HMLR expect everyone to spend at least 60% of their working time in the office.

You can find more information on how we use your personal data on our website

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Callum Todd
• Email : Callum.Todd@landregistry.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/

Attachments

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