- Provide architecture advice to BPS product delivery teams
- Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt. Conduct PoCs to explore and assure solution options
- Exploit the new tooling, capabilities, and technical options that the re-platformed infrastructure provides through APIs
- Drive out the migration path for data held within the re-platformed services aligning to the product roadmap.
- Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of services
- Work with engineering teams, and other Digital stakeholders, to create VFM solution designs
- Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the DWP Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
- Identify, capture, share, iterate, and implement architecture patterns
- Drive resolution of technical debt, to reduce the ongoing cost of DWP IT services
- Develop product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs.
- Shaping and supporting the delivery of large scale, enterprise, business critical services
- Integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Event-based API-driven architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards
- Agile delivery methodologies and best practice
- Presenting to technical governance forums.
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Turning business problems into technical designs
- Technical Breadth
Senior Solution Architect - London, United Kingdom - UK Civil Service
Description
Job summary
Do you want work collaboratively, designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe?
If so, we have an opportunity as a Senior Solution Architect, where you'll be able to bring your expertise to support evolution and technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services.
You�ll be joining a small team of solution architects for the Digital Benefit Payment Systems (BPS) team.
Together with other solution architects, engineers and delivery teams, you'll collaborate to design and develop DWP products, services and solutions to simplify operation.
We are looking for motivated Solutions Architects to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that impact the most vulnerable citizens in society. We maintain and modernise services that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives. The scale of what we do is extraordinary and our purpose is unique.
Job description
BPS are responsible for core services covering customers across DWP, including pension benefits, working age benefits and disability benefits. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform.
As a Solution Architect, you will:
Responsibilities
Your roles and responsibilities for this role include, but are not restricted to the following:
Person specification
When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
When giving details of your CV, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Benefits
� An employer pension contribution of up to 27%�
� Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
� Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
� Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.�
� An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women�s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
This job 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. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from �52,412 to �70,000.
The maximum salary for the grade is �63,517, however a Digital Allowance of up to �6,483 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
Location
Applicants should apply for suitable posts where they can travel to and from their home office location daily within a reasonable time.���
Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed�
Hybrid Working
This job 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. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.