Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Technical Architect for an initial 12 month contract with the potential to extend on a rate of £650-£750/day (inside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
- Be a key part of the team as we work to deliver an operational service that meets the needs of service users and public sector organisations.
- Play a key role in defining and assuring the Programme's architecture roadmap and relationship with architecture teams across public sector organisations and suppliers involved in developing, testing, auditing and supporting the service.
- Collaborate with technical architects, developers, testers and business areas, working closely with delivery partners and internal administrative teams.
- Prepare architectural documentation, support technical industry engagement and assist with assurance of partner supplier outcomes. In the next few months major technical decisions will have to be made on the procurement and/or build of prototypes testing Identity Provider and Attribute Store element. The post holder will be key in these discussions.
Essential Skills:
- Excellent Knowledge and experience of the Identity & Access Management area including B2C
- Experience with industry leading IAM products and principles including B2C.
- Excellent Architecture skills, able to understand the bigger picture and derive possible options for improvement and understand consequences for all impacted areas, striving for sustainable strategic approaches to reach defined target states while taking into account tactical needs for temporary intermediate states
- Architectural experience of the roll-out of complex IDAM solutions across a large environment.
- Profound understanding of web-based technologies including multi-tier applications and security standards (HTTP, TLS, REST/SOAP, Cookie Handling, SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, WS-Trust, UMA, JWE)
- Capable of making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
- Able to make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
- Capable of resolving technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.
- Translates technical concepts between software engineering, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all
- Experienced and comfortable working with senior level (Director level) and challenging internal and external stakeholders
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.