Description
Role: Lead Architect
Digital/Non Digital: Yes
Contract Length: No later than 31/03/22
Location: Cheltenham with occasional travel to Bristol, Corsham and London
IR35: Inside
Clearance: You must have a active DV Clearance
Responsibilities-
Your Responsibilities/Tasking will include:
Architectures: Develop appropriate elements of an integrated suite of architectures and technical models and policies to cover the applications, data, and information infrastructure/computing layers. Lead the development of and adherence to coherent Defence Enterprise Architectures to drive convergence, coherence and re-use of ICT components.
Input to the Technical Authority: Provide input into Technical, System and Layer Design Authority to ensure that services are procured, developed and maintained in accordance with the Departmental strategies, policies and architectures.
Subject Matter Expertise (SME): Provide Subject Matter Expertise for a number of core applications and Information Systems technologies, including maintaining the Defence Manual of Information Communications Technology.
Safety: Ensure that delivered capabilities and services achieve MOD Safety & Environmental requirements and standards, through the provision of Safety Statements and Safety Cases, and through relevant reporting.
End to End Enterprise/Solution Designs: Lead the capture and development of capability and business requirements, transforming them into systems or service designs, constraints and supporting contextual documents, through ITIL Service Strategy and Design functions.
Service Development: Assist Programme and Project Managers to ensure that service supplier's plans and products are aligned with strategy, coherent with the relevant technical architectures and compliant with policies and standards such as the adoption of SIAM processes and development of service designs.
Innovation and Continuous Service Improvement (CSI): Identify CSI opportunities through the investigation and introduction of innovative technical capabilities. Support CSI improvements to business processes on behalf of the CSI Lead or Business Process Owner.
Strategy & Policy Development: Contribute and where required lead the development of strategy outputs to support the Strategic Command and Defence Digital strategy development process, the CDIO and senior team requirements. To lead the development of Defence ICT strategy, policy and standards.
Supplier Relationships: Support engagement with key suppliers to maintain MOD influence over the supplier's product development plans; Mature the working relationships with service suppliers to optimise development process delivery.
It is desirable that candidates will have additional relevant experience and will be a Chartered Engineer (IET) or Chartered IT Professional, with specialist architecture accreditations for relevant areas (ie security, applications, networks, gateways) and be a recognised SME across multiple customers and teams.
For more information on this please get in contact. My email is (see below)