Lead Technical Architect
Job title
Lead Technical Architect
Job description
Duration : 6 months
As a Lead Technical Architect, you will:
• Design technical solutions (products and services) to meet user needs and align with DWP technical strategy and standards.
• Provide a consistent set of solution views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
• Champion solution communication, making the complex simple to understand.
• Support delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.
• 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.
• Support the development of the DWP Architecture Practice.
Essential Skills:
• Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Micro-service and API-led architecture design.
• Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming).
• Public cloud technologies, design patterns, and best practice (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Presenting to technical governance forums.
• Delivering Enterprise scale, multi-million pound Payments and Accounting, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), or Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, building on top of industry standard COTS packages.
• Relational database design/modelling, technologies, design patterns, tools and best practice e.g. Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL.
If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.