Description
Location: Manchester/Blackpool preferred. Will also consider Leeds/Sheffield/Newcastle/London. 2 days a week in office
Pay rate: £750pd Inside IR35 MAX
Duration: 6 months
Position: Lead Technical Architect
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 (eg 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 eg Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL.
If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.