Service Architect (SC Clearance Essential)

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Service Architect (SC Clearance Essential), Up to 2 Years, Central London, Outside IR35

You will be required to work with the team for our Central Government client's major programme to define, document and agree with all stakeholders and ongoing service architecture. You will also be responsible for managing the introduction of new Service, working as part of a small team. Provide specialist Service Architecture for a major Programme to update a piece of critical national infrastructure and you will be working alongside existing team and project manager.

More specific details to be confirmed, due to the sensitivity of the project.

Key Skills / Experience

* Experienced IT professional.

* In depth service management experience & understanding of ITIL (V3).

* Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing service architectures for complex systems in large government departments or other large organisations

* Demonstrable track record of successfully taking an evolutionary approach to service architecture.

* Strong communications, relationship building, negotiation and influencing skills; able to ensure that advice regarding the service specialism is acted upon.

* A creative and pragmatic approach to service design.

* Ability to absorb new technical, commercial and business concepts quickly, and work with them.

* Recognised expertise in service model development and its application within a business environment e.g. intelligent customer functions.

* A sound, broad knowledge of IT and an excellent understanding of how support services impact on other business functions.

* Demonstrable experience of transforming business needs into contractual requirements.

* ITIL V3 Expert Qualification

* Experience with automated configuration management, deployment and testing solutions.

* Experience with open source solutions and community.

* Knowledge of Agile development, deployment and operations lifecycle

* Experience using and deploying on Cloud based platforms

* Working in a multi-disciplinary team.

* Experience of providing or managing outsourced service management services.