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Senior Technical Architect

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandSenior (5-8 years)
Direct reportsNo direct reports
Reports toLead Technical Architect
UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Senior Cloud Engineer · Lead Systems Designer · Principal Platform Engineer

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1What this role really is

You'll be the person designing and building the backbone of our software, making sure it all works together smoothly. This isn't just about coding; it's about seeing the bigger picture, drawing up the plans, and then helping the teams actually build it right. You're the bridge between the 'what' and the 'how', making sure our systems are robust and ready for what's next.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)Advanced

Designing and building new, complex environments; deep expertise in serverless (Lambda, Functions), containers (EKS, AKS), and networking within at least one major cloud provider.

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)Advanced

Designing and implementing Kubernetes clusters, writing complex manifests, managing Helm charts, and configuring service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) for new applications.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)Expert

Authoring complex, reusable Terraform modules and designing entire IaC strategies for new products or significant refactors. You'll mentor others on best practices here.

CI/CD & DevOps (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)Expert

Designing and building CI/CD pipelines from scratch for complex applications (e.g., multi-service, multi-region), integrating security (SAST/DAST) and quality gates.

Observability & Monitoring (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)Advanced

Implementing comprehensive monitoring for new services, creating custom dashboards, defining SLOs/SLIs, and setting up sophisticated alerting strategies to ensure system health.

Diagramming & Modeling (Lucidchart, Miro, Draw.io)Expert

Creating clear, comprehensive system diagrams from scratch using frameworks like the C4 Model. You'll often lead design sessions on virtual whiteboards to visualise solutions.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Technical Design & Tool Selection	Follows established patterns, asks for approval on tool choices.	Proposes technical designs and tool choices for review, makes routine decisions independently.	Full authority for technical design within project scope (e.g., choosing a specific database, messaging queue, or cloud service). Recommends new tools for broader adoption, but consults Lead Architect for significant platform-level changes.
Project Scope & Timeline Changes	Escalates all changes to supervisor.	Communicates minor changes to manager, escalates significant impacts.	Consults Lead Architect on any changes that would significantly impact project timelines (e.g., delaying by more than two weeks) or require substantial additional resources. Expected to propose solutions to mitigate impact.
Budget Allocation (Project Specific)	No budget authority, informs supervisor of any costs.	Identifies potential costs, informs manager of spend.	Can make recommendations for project-specific budget spend up to £10K (e.g., new software licences, specific cloud services). Anything above that needs sign-off from your Lead Architect or Manager.
Architectural Standards & Best Practices	Adheres to existing standards.	Identifies gaps in standards, proposes minor improvements.	Actively contributes to the definition and evolution of architectural standards and best practices for your domain. Your input is crucial for shaping how we build things here.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Lead Time for Changes

This is about how quickly a change, once committed to code, makes it all the way into production for the teams you work with.

Target · Reduce the average lead time by 25% for your assigned teams.

If it currently takes 4 days on average for a code change to go live, we'd want to see that drop to 3 days or less within a quarter, thanks to your architectural improvements.

Adoption of Architectural Patterns

How many new services or components in your domain actually follow the architectural patterns and best practices you've laid out.

Target · Achieve >80% adoption of prescribed patterns for new services.

If you've defined a standard way to handle logging, we'd expect 8 out of 10 new services to use that standard, rather than rolling their own solution.

System Reliability (Uptime & Incidents)

The uptime of the systems you've designed or significantly influenced, and the number of major incidents they experience.

Target · Designs should help systems meet 99.99% uptime SLAs and aim for zero major incidents for two consecutive quarters.

If a system you designed has an SLA of 99.99% (that's about 52 minutes of downtime a year), we'd expect it to consistently hit that, and ideally have no Sev-1 or Sev-2 incidents for six months straight.

Architectural Quality & Maintainability

How well-thought-out, robust, and easy to maintain your architectural designs are. This isn't just about getting it working, but getting it working *well* for the long haul.

Positive feedback from engineering teams during implementation, fewer 'technical debt' tickets related to your designs, successful peer reviews by other senior architects, and designs that stand the test of time without needing major overhauls within a year.

Mentorship Effectiveness

How well you're helping junior engineers grow their technical skills and architectural understanding.

Junior team members proactively seeking your advice, positive feedback from mentees in 1:1s, visible improvement in their design contributions and code quality, and their ability to tackle more complex tasks independently over time.

Cross-Team Influence & Consensus Building

Your ability to get different engineering teams and product managers to agree on a technical direction and follow it, even when it means making trade-offs.

Teams consistently adopting your recommended patterns, proactive invitations to design discussions from other leads, positive comments from Product Managers about your ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly, and seeing your architectural decisions reflected in team roadmaps.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Solving Complex Technical Puzzles

You'll spend your days breaking down tough system challenges, figuring out how disparate components can work together, and designing elegant solutions to tricky scaling or reliability problems.

Spending a whole day sketching out how a new messaging queue can integrate with an old database without causing downtime, and then seeing that design work perfectly.

Seeing Your Designs Implemented and Used

You get a real kick out of seeing the blueprints you've created turn into actual, working software that people rely on. It's about tangible impact.

Walking past a screen showing live metrics of a system you designed, knowing it's handling thousands of requests a second, all thanks to your architecture.

Mentoring and Guiding Others

You enjoy helping junior engineers understand complex concepts, reviewing their designs, and seeing them grow into more capable technical contributors.

Spending an hour on a whiteboard with a junior engineer, helping them untangle a tricky design problem, and then seeing the 'aha!' moment in their eyes.

What frustrates people

Watching teams ignore established architectural patterns and best practices in the name of 'moving fast,' only to be pulled in later to help clean up the mess.
The political tightrope of telling a senior stakeholder that their pet project is technically unfeasible or prohibitively expensive without sounding like a blocker.
The sheer amount of time spent in meetings, building consensus and communicating designs, which can often feel less productive than actual hands-on design work.
Dealing with legacy systems that are too critical to rewrite but too fragile to easily change.

What this role does not give you

A purely hands-on coding role – you'll code, but your primary focus is design and guidance.
A role with absolute control over every technical decision – you'll need to influence and compromise.
A quiet, solitary environment – this role is highly collaborative and involves constant communication.

6Who you work with

Your work directly influences how quickly we can ship new features, how stable our existing products are, and how much our cloud bills cost. Get it right, and we're agile and efficient; get it wrong, and we're stuck in technical debt, constantly putting out fires and losing money.

Inside the business

Product Managers (to understand what needs building)
Engineering Leads (to get buy-in on designs and help with implementation)
Security Team (to make sure everything's locked down tight)
Operations Team (so they can actually run what we build)
Other Senior Architects (for peer review and bigger picture alignment)

Outside the business

Key Vendors (if we're integrating third-party services)
Sometimes, senior clients (to explain complex technical solutions)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

At least 5 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles, where you've built and maintained complex systems.
A proven track record of designing and delivering robust, scalable, and secure technical solutions for specific features or workstreams.
Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) at an advanced level, beyond just deploying simple resources.
A solid understanding of modern software development practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
The ability to clearly communicate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in writing.
Experience mentoring or guiding junior engineers in their technical development.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Distributed System Design

As our systems grow, they become more distributed and complex. You'll need to master patterns for handling failure gracefully, ensuring data consistency across multiple services, and optimising for low-latency communication in highly distributed environments.

Event Sourcing & CQRS · Distributed Transactions & Sagas · Service Mesh Optimisation · Chaos Engineering Principles

This quarter: Read 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' by Martin Kleppmann – it's a bible for distributed systems.
Next quarter: Design and implement a new feature using an Event Sourcing or CQRS pattern.
Month 6: Participate in or lead a 'Game Day' where we simulate failures in a production-like environment.
Month 9: Research and present on the latest advancements in serverless or container orchestration technologies.

Quick win: Start by identifying a single point of failure in one of our existing systems and proposing a more resilient architectural pattern for it.

Cloud Cost Optimisation (FinOps)

Cloud costs are a huge line item for most businesses. As an architect, you're uniquely positioned to design systems that are not only performant and reliable but also cost-efficient. This isn't just about turning things off; it's about smart architectural choices.

Right-Sizing Resources · Spot Instances & Reserved Instances · Serverless Cost Models · Data Transfer Costs

This month: Review the cloud bill for one of the systems you've designed. Try to understand where the biggest costs are coming from.
Next quarter: Propose and implement a cost-saving architectural change for an existing service, aiming for a 10% reduction.
Month 6: Get familiar with FinOps principles and how they apply to architectural decision-making.
Month 9: Lead a 'cost review' session with your team, identifying areas for optimisation in their services.

Quick win: Identify any unused or underutilised cloud resources in your domain and propose decommissioning or right-sizing them.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attend industry conferences (e.g., KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, QCon) to stay abreast of new technologies and architectural trends.
Actively participate in online technical communities, forums, or open-source projects to share knowledge and learn from peers.
Dedicate time each week for self-study, reading technical books, blogs, and research papers on advanced architectural topics.
Seek out opportunities to present on technical topics internally or at local meetups, honing your communication and influence skills.
Pursue advanced certifications in cloud architecture, security, or specific distributed systems technologies.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take us two hours. Architects who figure out how to effectively use and integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) will outproduce their peers significantly. This isn't future-gazing; it's happening now.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, competitors are already using tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take us two hours. Architects who figure out how to effectively use and integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) will outproduce their peers significantly. This isn't future-gazing; it's happening now.

Context Windows & Token Limits
Temperature Settings for Tasks
RAG Architectures (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
Output Validation & Hallucination Detection
Prompt Chaining for Complex Analysis

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Cloud Architecture Patterns
Well-Architected Frameworks
System Design & Modeling
DevSecOps Principles
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
From Senior Software Engineer
3-5 years as a Senior Engineer
Skills to master
- Moving beyond just writing code to actively designing system components, understanding non-functional requirements (scalability, security), and influencing technical direction for your team. You'll need to start thinking about the 'why' behind the code.
You're ready to move on when
- You're the go-to person for complex technical problems on your team.
- You've led the design of several significant features from concept to production.
- You're regularly mentoring junior engineers and helping them with design challenges.
- You find yourself spending more time on architectural discussions than hands-on coding.
2
From Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer
3-5 years as a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer
Skills to master
- Deepening your understanding of application architecture, not just infrastructure. This means focusing on how applications consume cloud services, designing resilient deployments, and understanding the impact of infrastructure choices on software design. You'll need to bridge the gap between infra and app.
You're ready to move on when
- You've designed and implemented complex CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- You're regularly optimising cloud costs and performance for multiple services.
- You're often consulted by software engineers on how to best deploy and operate their applications.
- You've got a strong grasp of distributed systems concepts and troubleshooting.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as a Technical Architect is one of continuous learning and increasing impact. We're excited to see where you take it, and we'll support you every step of the way.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Senior Technical Architect is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Cloud Architecture DesignLevel 5

Applied to your work in Senior Technical Architect

The objective of this unit is to enable learners to produce a cloud feasibility assessment for a small-to-medium sized organisation, and use architectural design principles to design and implement an infrastructure solution. Learners will also analyse metric monitoring and alert systems to baseline the health of a cloud environment.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Senior Technical Architect

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Lead Time for ChangesThis is about how quickly a change, once committed to code, makes it all the way into production for the teams you work with.If it currently takes 4 days on average for a code change to go live, we'd want to see that drop to 3 days or less within a quarter, thanks to your architectural improvements.Reduce the average lead time by 25% for your assigned teams.
Adoption of Architectural PatternsHow many new services or components in your domain actually follow the architectural patterns and best practices you've laid out.If you've defined a standard way to handle logging, we'd expect 8 out of 10 new services to use that standard, rather than rolling their own solution.Achieve >80% adoption of prescribed patterns for new services.
System Reliability (Uptime & Incidents)The uptime of the systems you've designed or significantly influenced, and the number of major incidents they experience.If a system you designed has an SLA of 99.99% (that's about 52 minutes of downtime a year), we'd expect it to consistently hit that, and ideally have no Sev-1 or Sev-2 incidents for six months straight.Designs should help systems meet 99.99% uptime SLAs and aim for zero major incidents for two consecutive quarters.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Senior Technical Architect to Lead Technical Architect, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Lead Technical Architect→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey as a Technical Architect is one of continuous learning and increasing impact. We're excited to see where you take it, and we'll support you every step of the way.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Senior Technical Architect

Cloud Architecture Patterns
Well-Architected Frameworks
System Design & Modeling
DevSecOps Principles
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Technical Architect is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Lead Technical Architect
Roughly 3-5 years in this Senior Architect role
This is typically the next step, moving to a Level 4 role. You'll be leading architectural strategy for a broader product area or multiple teams.
- Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (e.g., TOGAF principles): Understanding how to align technology strategy with overall business goals.
- Budget Management: Taking accountability for significant project budgets (e.g., £50K-£500K for infrastructure).
- Vendor Strategy: Evaluating and selecting strategic technology partners at a higher level.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, a lot of what we do as architects involves repetitive tasks or sifting through mountains of information. But what if you could offload some of that grunt work? Imagine having an intelligent assistant that helps you draft code, spot design flaws, and summarise complex tech papers in minutes. That's not science fiction; it's what AI can do for you, right now.

In Technical_roles, we're not just talking about automating simple tasks. We're talking about giving you superpowers to design better, faster, and with fewer headaches. AI tools are already transforming how architects work, helping you focus on the truly strategic, creative parts of your job. Here's a glimpse of how you'll be using AI to get ahead.

IaC & Boilerplate Generation

Stop writing repetitive Terraform configurations or Kubernetes manifests from scratch. Use AI assistants like GitHub Copilot to generate complex infrastructure-as-code snippets and Dockerfiles from simple prompts. Just tell it what you need, and watch it draft the code for you. You'll spend less time on boilerplate and more time on actual design.

Architecture Anti-Pattern Detection

Feed your system design documents, architectural diagrams, or even code repositories into specialised AI tools. These can analyse for common architectural flaws like circular dependencies, single points of failure, or security vulnerabilities before you even build them. Catching these early saves weeks of rework and prevents costly production issues.

New Technology Evaluation & Summarisation

Need to compare AWS Lambda with Azure Functions for a new project? Or understand the nuances of a new database technology? Use large language models (LLMs) to rapidly research and summarise complex technical documentation, comparisons, and trade-offs. You'll get to the core insights much faster, making better-informed decisions.

Documentation & ADR Drafting

Let's face it, documentation isn't always the most exciting part of the job. But it's crucial. Use AI to draft Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) or clear text descriptions for complex diagrams. You can dictate the context, trade-offs, and final decision, and the AI will structure it into a professional document, saving you hours of writing.

Common questions

How do you become a Senior Technical Architect?

Common routes in include From Senior Software Engineer (3-5 years as a Senior Engineer) and From Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer (3-5 years as a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Senior Technical Architect progress to?

This role can lead on to Lead Technical Architect (Roughly 3-5 years in this Senior Architect role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Senior Technical Architect in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Senior Technical Architect?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Senior Technical Architect, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 7 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Senior Technical Architect: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan of nine units, ninety credits, each one an Ofqual-regulated unit the learner can tick or untick before starting. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Technical roles

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain here – especially in cloud architecture, distributed systems, and influencing technical direction – are highly transferable. You could easily move into similar Senior or Lead Architect roles in almost any tech-driven industry, from FinTech to e-commerce, or even into consulting.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Senior Technical Architect

What's rising in its place

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

From Senior Software Engineer

From Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Your journey as a Technical Architect is one of continuous learning and increasing impact. We're excited to see where you take it, and we'll support you every step of the way.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Lead Technical Architect

Where AI is starting to help

IaC & Boilerplate Generation

Architecture Anti-Pattern Detection

New Technology Evaluation & Summarisation

Documentation & ADR Drafting

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.