Description
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Proven track record of organising and performing prototyping and proof of concepts
- Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable and robust approaches to caching, security and databases (including relational, eg MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL , eg Cassandra, MongoDB)
- Experience with a web programming framework such as Django, Ruby on Rails, Scala/Play etc
- Demonstrable track record of successfully taking an evolutionary architecture approach to software architecture. Proven track record of working with suppliers to deliver best fit IT solutions for DWP
- Ability to work effectively across Departmental and other boundaries.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Experience with automated configuration management, deployment and testing solutions
- Experience of developing product roadmaps, backlogs and measurable success criteria, and of writing user stories, ie can establish a path to delivery for breaking down stories
- Focused on strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction
- Experience using and deploying Cloud based platforms
- Experience of collaborative working in an agile development environment.
- Qualification or relevant experience in a related field would be useful such as: membership of relevant professional body, BCS or IET or INCOSE