Summary: The role of Senior Technical Architect involves leading the design, development, and maintenance of IT products and services for DWP on a hybrid contract basis. The position requires collaboration with engineering teams and other digital professionals to ensure high-quality technical solutions that meet user needs and business objectives. The architect will also contribute to the growth of the technical architecture community and implement architecture patterns for consistent design. This role is based in Leeds or Newcastle and is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives.
- Ensure high quality of technical design and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps.
- Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams.
- Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement solutions.
- Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering.
- Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent architecture design.
- Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases.
Key Skills:
- Deep understanding of technical concepts and their fit into the wider technical landscape.
- Proactive and reactive communication skills.
- Ability to design systems with medium levels of risk and complexity.
- Experience with architecture & design methods, including ArchiMate and UML.
- Knowledge of Agile/DevOps methodologies and Continuous Integration/Delivery practices.
- Familiarity with microservice and API-led architecture.
- Core technology knowledge in software, application, and data architecture.
- Experience with cloud technologies, including AWS and Microsoft Azure.
- Understanding of security architecture and cybersecurity technologies.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Technical Architect for a 12 Month (Inside IR35) hybrid contract based up to 3 days per week in Leeds or Newcastle. As a Senior Technical Solution Architect, you will be working with engineering teams, be responsible for supporting the design, development, delivery and maintenance of IT products and services. This will typically be for a project or strand of a programme. As a Senior Technical Solution Architect, you will have deep knowledge in your field and help to grow the technical architecture community, helping to support the community and build high quality products and services.
Responsibilities
- Lead, deliver and support technical design of a product or part of a shared platform to meet user needs and business objectives.
- Lead on ensuring high quality of technical design, and adherence to enterprise architecture principles and roadmaps
- Build relationships and work collaboratively with Digital professions in agile delivery teams to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs
- Engage with Enterprise Architects, Domain Architects, Lead Solution Architects and engineering teams to implement the solutions according to agreed and approved architecture designs.
- Deliver product solutions and be accountable for product architecture in alignment with engineering.
- Identify, capture, share and iterate architecture patterns to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
- Implement architecture patterns creating reference architectures as real-world working examples of successful architecture design.
- Create solution options and recommendations - during project discovery and inception phases to drive decision making on best solution design.
Technical Skills
- Able to listen to the needs of the technical and business stakeholders and interpret between them.
- Capable of proactive and reactive communication.
- Has a deep understanding of the technical concepts required in their role and understands how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
- Understands the limitations of digital technology.
- Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
- Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures they are applied effectively.
- Reviews the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
- Works with and challenges senior stakeholders.
- Can prioritise and mitigate constraints, and can turn them into an advantage.
- Is able to adapt the approach depending on the constraints.
- Sees prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others.
- Establishes design patterns and iterates them.
- Knows a variety of methods of prototyping and chooses the most appropriate ones.
- Knows how to version and host a prototype.
Technical Specialisms
- Architecture & Design Methods
- Desirable skills to support Technical Breadth and Systems Integration capabilities
- ArchiMate and UML architecture/design and modelling techniques, tools and standards
- Agile / DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice
- Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) delivery methodologies, tools and best practice
- Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice
- WebServices, SOA, BPEL and ESB architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice
- Programme & Project Management
- Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios
- Core Technology Knowledge
- Software architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Application and integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Information and data architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture
- Amazon Web Service (AWS) technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice
- Microsoft Azure technologies, cloud hosting and networking design patterns, tools and best practice
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Serverless cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud-based application deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice
- Security Architecture
- Security threat trends, analysis and protection technologies, tools and best practice
- Includes: software exploits/ SQL injection/ cross-site scripting/ remote file inclusion/ stolen credentials/ 'watering hole' attacks/ DDOS/ malware/ phishing/ ransomware
- Secure communication and encryption/ cryptographic technologies, tools and best practice
- Includes: IPSec/ Kerberos/ TLS/ SSL
- Identification, authentication and Single Sign-On(SSO) technologies, tools and best practice
- Includes: OpenID/ Oauth 2.0/ OIDC/ XACML/ OATH reference architecture/ Kerberos/ SAML/ WS-Security/ RACF
- Cybersecurity technologies, tools and best practice
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Rate:
Negotiable
Location:
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior
