Senior Solution Architect Department for Work & Pensions
Newcastle
Reference
74679
Number of vacancies
1
Location
Newcastle
Salary
£49,171 — Up to £61,000
Work hours
37 per week (flexible working)
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
• Flexible working
• Family friendly policies
• Volunteering and charitable giving
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Learning and development, including coaching, mentoring, qualifications and accreditation
• Work in an environment shortlisted for a Best Place to Work in Digital Award
• Career progression opportunities and lots more
Closing date
9 November 2020
Job description
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We’re looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join a small team of solution architects working with DWP Digital’s Child Maintenance Group (CMG) team. In CMG we make sure that children and their carers receive the financial support they should.
You’ll help lead on the design of hosting, environments, networking and public cloud infrastructure of their Digital Common Platforms.
This team is laying the foundations for these platforms and their reusable capabilities, transitioning their service to one based around Events. We’ll support this with a micro-services architecture that will enable CMG to manage change quickly, and at low risk, resulting in a dependable high-quality services for our customers.
This role is ideally suited to a Solution Architect that can lead on the design of hosting, environments, networking and public cloud infrastructure of their Digital Common Platforms
Duties. Work. Projects.
You’ll provide expert architecture advice to product delivery squads in CMG, blending technical and behavioural skills and collaborating with other architects to ensure solutions are consistent, strategically matched and interoperable.
You’ll ensure solutions meet our architecture standards, re-using patterns where possible. You’ll represent these solutions to the Digital Design Authority (DDA) at various stages of the product development.
You will be preparing solutions and presenting to our local governance forum on a regular basis, advocating and supporting deliveries that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt.
Our users are the most important factor in your work. You will craft solution designs that always meet their needs, working closely with engineers in agile delivery teams to get this right.
You’ll have accountability for product architecture, contributing to product roadmaps and representing designs, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making to different stakeholders so we can get the approval to proceed at pace.
We are looking for someone with skills and experience in:
- Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
- Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
- Agile / DevOps delivery methodologies and best practices.
- Presenting to technical governance forums.
Experience in the following would also be beneficial:
- Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice.
- Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
Where will you work?
You’ll join our team at our digital hub in Newcastle, just a short walk from Longbenton Metro: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
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We also all have the tech and tools we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
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If you have any questions of you want to discuss the role before you apply get in touch via danny.winch@dwp.gov.uk
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