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Digital Lead Technical Architect - DSTL - G7

Government Digital & Data -

Full-time (Permanent)
£46,900 - £54,106
Published on
2 January 2025
Deadline
26 January 2025

Are you an experienced Technical Architect ready for a change?

Dstl Digital is growing!

Your new role will see you take responsibility of the design governance across the Dstl Digital Estate. You will work at a strategic level to influence, and contribute to the overarching Digital direction.  

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.

Job description

As a leading architect, you will:

  • Provide technical design solutions to problems appreciating the needs of customers, the business and risk.
  • Be accountable of the governance and assurance of IT services across the estate.
  • Provide leadership and mentoring to junior members of the team.

Why join Digital? It’s simple – the people, Dstl benefits and the variety of work!

You will join a team essential to the day-to-day running of Dstl who enables the delivery of our science and technology. You will go to work every day proud to contribute to the success of Dstl which ultimately saves lives.

https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/ 

Leadership

As a leader in Defence you will help shape, role model and bring to life the ‘One Defence’ mindset that will enable us to deliver our vision and strategic objectives. Your leadership style must be inspiring, confident and empowering. Working at every level of our organisation to break down silos, unite teams and create a culture that is trusting, collaborative, innovative, diverse and inclusive. Enabling us to deliver with pace and agility through the skills, commitment and empowerment of our employees and military colleagues.

Safety at Dstl

  • You must appreciate and be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others;
  • You will pro-actively support the development of safe working practices, champion their use with others, and promote the welfare of self and others;
  • You will share best practice and report any unsafe practices to support and enable a learning culture. You are empowered to stop work where you feel it is unsafe.

Person specification

About you:

  • You will be an established architect working within ITIL.
  • You will have worked within a governance/assurance role.
  • You will be an effective communicator, leader and problem solver.
  • You will have experience in writing architectural strategy, policy, processes as well as writing and reviewing technical design documentation.

A full list of the experience required and accountabilities is available on the job profile attached to CS Jobs.

Important Information

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.

If you are a current Dstl employee you must ensure your line manager is aware of your application and the potential situation regarding release dates, if successful and a start date is not agreed it could result in the job offer being withdrawn.

Qualifications

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) certification or IT4IT certification

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Leadership
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing

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