Lead technical architect solutions

A Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed.
At this role level, you will:
Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.
Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation.
Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design.
Person specification When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line withessential criteriabelow:
Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects.
Architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle – from concept to go-live.
Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
Architecture design through use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent.
Communication & Collaboration Technologies (across all device types and operating systems, in a multi-tenant, multi-location environment), especially expertise in Microsoft 365 solutions (Share Point, Teams and Copilot), Adobe Products, whiteboarding and File Store solutions.
Expertise in email technologies including Exchange, email cloud threat management systems.
Information/Data Security, Governance, Management & Compliance (including Data Privacy, Data Lifecycle Management, Legislation, Discovery, Disaster Recovery & Backup including tooling e.g.
Sentinel, Log Analytics & Purview) If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Behaviours We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Leadership Working Together Communicating and Influencing Technical skills We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Architecture communication (Expert) Architect for the whole context (Practitioner) Community collaboration (Practitioner) Making architectural decisions (Expert) Strategy design (Practitioner) Technical design throughout the life cycle (Expert) Benefits Alongside your salary of 75,026, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
Generous annual leave at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service.
Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career.
This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
Hybrid Working This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home.
This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.Salary Information The role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Government Digital and Data Pay Framework linked to capability which provides access to a Government Digital and Data allowance.
Pay for this roleis insert 75,026 to 80,267, subject to candidate type.
In addition to this, the role can attract a Government Digital and Data allowance of up to 24,810.
Please see additional info below regarding candidate type.
The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills as demonstrated in the selection process.
Government Digital and Data Allowance is a discretionary non-consolidated, non-pensionable allowance.
External applicants Pay for this role is 75,026 plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to 24,810, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on our assessment of your capability based on the evidence you provide at interview against the listed Technical Skills for the role.
There is no negotiation at offer stage.
Internal and OGD applicants Pay for the role is from insert 75,026 to 80,267, you may also be eligible for a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to 24,810, subject to our assessment of capability at interview.
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