About the job
As a Technical Principal at Version 1, you will engage directly with our foremost clients in the government and financial sectors, collaborating to address their most intricate digital challenges. You will employ critical thinking to dissect issues and devise practical solutions, emphasizing performance, scalability, security, and resilience from the outset. Your week may begin by evaluating a technical strategy for a significant government department, followed by working with a project team to navigate integration hurdles on a live service, and concluding with presenting your solution to a client's senior leadership team.
Your extensive experience in building and deploying enterprise-scale digital services enables you to provide credible advice on effective practices, leveraging systems thinking to comprehend how technical decisions interconnect across the broader service and business landscape. This could involve designing microservices architectures on AWS or Azure, assisting a bank in modernizing its data platform while adhering to stringent security requirements, or collaborating with a delivery team to revitalize a struggling project by identifying risks and modifying the approach. You will consistently bring strategic insight and hands-on expertise to every scenario.
In this role, you will collaborate with diverse teams, including user researchers, product managers, software engineers, and business stakeholders, adopting a stakeholder-centric approach to balance various perspectives and needs while considering the commercial context. A portion of your responsibilities will involve business development—engaging potential clients, crafting technical proposals that include sizing and estimation work, and contributing to winning new business that fosters growth across your accounts. You will need to adeptly manage priorities across multiple engagements, often under tight deadlines.
As a member of our central architecture team, you will work alongside seasoned peers who share your enthusiasm for resolving complex technical challenges. This collaborative environment provides you with a robust support network for idea exchange, learning from diverse viewpoints, and tackling problems together. We understand that no one has all the answers from day one; you will bring your proven experience to new challenges while keeping up with industry trends. This role offers significant opportunities for continuous learning through our internal communities, representing Version 1 at conferences and industry events, and working with clients on cutting-edge projects. The diversity of tasks ensures engagement, and your expertise aids our clients in creating user-centric digital services that achieve meaningful outcomes for their users.