Manager, Technical Architect

As a Senior Manager, you will hold a broad remit of responsibilities, which may flex depending on the specific client engagement. You will provide technical leadership and architectural vision to multi-capability and often multi-geography teams, ensuring the design and implementation of robust, scalable, and secure technology solutions that deliver business-critical outcomes for our clients. You will apply your deep technical expertise and architectural understanding, coupled with a strong grasp of the media industry (and wider TMT experience), to support clients in navigating their complex technical challenges. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the architectural design and technical strategy for successful technology implementations within the Technology, Media and Telecoms sector, ensuring solutions add significant value to our client's end-users. This involves guiding multi-skilled technical teams from both client organisations and broader Deloitte.
• Translating complex business requirements into comprehensive technical architectures and solution designs, defining technology roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with client strategic objectives and industry best practices.
• Applying a profound understanding of how market shifts and emerging technologies will impact our TMT / Media clients, and proactively shaping technical strategies and internal capabilities to address these challenges and opportunities.
• Providing architectural governance and technical oversight to engineering, development, and test teams, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and patterns throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Collaborating closely with key internal and senior client stakeholders, effectively communicating complex technical concepts, architectural decisions, and their business implications with strong inter-personal skills.
• Leading the technical solutioning aspects of business development, including pre-sales activities, bid preparations, and client presentations. This involves showcasing our deep technical knowledge and architectural experience whilst building trusted relationships with potential clients.
• Participating fully within Deloitte to assist the growth of our TMT / Media Technology Architecture practice, mentoring and guiding junior technical architects and colleagues, and supporting the firm's commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.
  
  Deep hands-on expertise in designing and implementing solutions leveraging cloud services (particularly AWS), with a particular emphasis on cloud-native integration patterns and AI/ML services.
• Proven track record (2+ projects or 6+ months in a lead role) in an AWS Technical Architect or Lead Engineer capacity, specifically designing and delivering complex cloud-native solutions incorporating AI/ML components.
• Strong and specialised experience and understanding of TMT products, processes, and technologies in areas such as:
- Media industry, covering areas like content platforms, ad tech, and rights management platforms - Digital platforms and technologies - Appreciation of emerging technology and trends in TMT with an understanding and knowledge of different players in the industry
• Extensive experience in conducting cloud readiness assessments, defining solution architectures and technical options, and contributing to business case development for cloud and AI/ML initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical workshops with clients, guiding discussions on architectural patterns, AI/ML solution design, and best practices.
• Strong understanding of the broader cloud and AI/ML technology landscape, including emerging trends and their applicability within the Media landscape.
• Expertise in designing and implementing cloud-native integration architectures, encompassing microservices, event-driven patterns, API management, and data streaming with Kafka, complemented by the ability to establish robust MLOps pipelines for automated model deployment and monitoring.
• Participate fully within Deloitte to assist growth of the TMT / Media and Technology Programme Delivery team, develop and guide junior grade colleagues, and supporting the firm's commitment to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture.
The following will be an added advantage:
• Specific experience with AWS AI/ML services such as SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend, Polly, Lex, and a strong understanding of Generative AI concepts, including AWS Bedrock and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Cloud certifications
  
  Connect to your Industry
Want to work with the latest technologies, as part of a team helping organisations transform their core business capabilities? Whether you're delivering enterprise-wide systems, implementing cloud-based solutions, or managing complex programme delivery, your expertise will help clients achieve continuous improvement and innovation, from initial strategy through to implementation and optimisation. Our team brings together individuals with a wide range of skills, experiences, and backgrounds, enabling us to provide innovative and tailored solutions to our clients. You'll have the opportunity to work alongside industry experts, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and access a wide range of internal and industry-recognised learning opportunities to enhance your skills and certifications. In this role, you will be at the forefront of the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector, deeply engaging with its dynamic landscape. This involves continuously monitoring market shifts, understanding the evolving challenges and opportunities faced by TMT clients, and translating these insights into innovative strategies and technical solutions that drive their success and maintain their competitive edge. If you want to be part of a growing team, work with clients to deliver transformative technology programmes, and help develop the next generation of talent, we would be delighted to hear from you. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. 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