Managing Architect (public sector)

Duties & Responsibilities

Aker Managing Architect is primarily a client delivery, management, and growth role, expected to be 90% or more of the time across one or more client assignments.

• Technical Leadership: Part of the client leadership team as the Client CTO for assigned projects/services, supporting the Client Delivery Director, Client Account Director and the delivery team to ensure we deliver against all client deliverables and payment milestones.
• Lead Architect: Lead solution, data, cloud, service and security architects/engineers during design and delivery projects and services, and responsible for delivering design documents and other key artefacts to support governance and delivery.
• Senior Influencer: Need to be a leader and able to influence through excellent communication skills. You will relish collaboration and embrace challenges. You will understand the nuances of business and be driven to find new solutions for our clients’ biggest problems.
• Team-Focussed: Expected to you will build effective working relationships with delivery team members and Aker customers and operate without supervision as the technical lead across multiple projects and platforms and mentoring less-experienced client team members as required.
• Capability and Growth: Aker is a fast-growing business, so for any remaining % of time when not on client work, it is contributing to the future success of Aker by helping develop capabilities and supporting the other functions such as Sales and Product, and always looking to help grow existing accounts.

Essential Experience and Competencies

The successful candidate will need to have experience as a lead or managing architect across these core areas:

• Delivery - designing, delivering platforms and managed services at enterprise scale, specifically bespoke software solutions, par