Senior Technical (Solution) Architect - DWP - G7

Do you want work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe?

Do you want to help support millions of our claimants by designing user-friendly digital services?

If so, this role may be perfect for you.

We are looking for experienced Senior Technical (Solution) Architects who are confident working on data-focused products/services in a complex digital environment, where they’ll be supporting major initiatives within our Data & Analytics function.

These roles will involve collaborating with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations, and providing expert advice to drive technology choice decisions.

This is an exciting time to join us. You’ll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional Data products and services that work for everyone.

The successful candidates will lead on the technical feasibility and design of a range of innovative solutions, working across teams delivering services in:

• Data Exploitation.
• Data Enablement.
• Data Platform.

Job description

• Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of Digital & Analytics (D&A) services.
• Support delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behavioural (communication) skills.
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the DWP Enterprise Architecture and Product Road maps.
• Identify, capture, share, iterate, and implement architecture patterns.
• Drive resolution of technical debt, to reduce the ongoing cost of DWP IT services.
• Present solution designs at governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, to gain approval to proceed with designs.
• Create solution options and recommendations - during project discovery and inception phases.
• Contribute to the DWP Architecture community.

Person specification

When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below.  Candidates will require experience in:

• Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Public cloud technologies, including Cloud Data Platforms.
• Presenting architecture design to Technical governance forums.
• Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, and/or Data Lakehouse.
• Data Architecture Design, including Data Modelling, Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata Management, Data Governance
• Analytics & Reporting.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact akhtar.ali1@dwp.gov.uk.

Behaviours

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Technical skills

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

• Turning Business problems into Technical Designs
• Technical Breadth