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In line with the Care Quality Commission estates strategy, we are planning to move our London office from 151 Buckingham Palace Road to 2 Redman Place, Stratford, East London in late 2020.
Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
We are looking for individuals who are caring, demonstrate integrity, work well as part of a team and always strive for excellence in everything they do. Help us make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve.
Let us tell you a little bit about the role....
Recently we successfully migrated most of our applications to cloud to accelerate our transformation journey and we are going through most exciting transformation journey to make CQC an even more effective regulator of health and adult social care.
This role is about translating business thinking into technical designs, ensuring that the solutions are aligned to organisational strategy and objectives.
You'll ensure a project's architecture and technical design meets user and business needs whilst conforming to time and budget constraints.
You will thrive using Agile - and other - methods, have a good understanding of ‘service design' and enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams.
What we're looking for from you...
Main Responsibilities:
Use advanced theoretical and practical skills acquired through experience, specialist training and applied research to design and deliver robust, resilient, fit-for-purpose technology design aligned to user-needs
Work across the Digital function developing and assuring the solution design to meet user needs in line with business strategy and digital transformation efforts. Develop a strategic and technical roadmap including architecture transition states for the implementation of new services, their integration with legacy and the decommissioning of replaced solutions
Design technical services or plan system integration, selecting and designing necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs
Lead evaluation, design and analysis of CQC wide solutions and propose solution recommendations and alternatives to satisfy customer needs
Support the design and transition from legacy technologies/brownfield estates to modern, flexible and scalable architectures
Encourage communication across development teams to identify strategic requirements and dependencies
Designing the End to End solutions that will span across multiple business and technical domains including (Hosting, Data, Application, Integration and security)
Enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices
Closely work with Business Analysts and Product managers to build the requirements. Advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog
Working closely with multiple stakeholders including external suppliers to deliver the End to End solutions.
Essential Skills and Experience:
Experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area and educated to degree level or Master's level (desirable)
Specialist knowledge in technology, business strategy and operations to deliver a scalable solution supporting the CQC
Extensive specialist knowledge in a range of technical delivery, end user design and business strategy acquired through qualifications/professional accreditation or equivalent experience in technically specialist disciplines
Expert knowledge of cloud solution architecture including expertise in Microsoft Azure including Azure Architect Design, Azure Cloud infrastructure, Monitoring, Virtual Networking, Identity & security and Power platform
Expert knowledge of loosely coupled, highly cohesive micro-services architecture and APIs including Azure Integration services
Expert in data warehousing, business intelligence and/or management information reporting, preferably with knowledge in underlying data structures required to support healthcare
Specialist knowledge in a range of technologies including, by way of example:
Azure Architect Design and Azure Architect Technologies
IDAM services (MS AD services)
Modern Data Platforms
Dynamics 365 & Sharepoint online SaaS packages
Azure CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Jenkins Reuse of existing open source government developments e.g. Github repositories. Azure Integration services & Mulesoft ESB
Excellent interpersonal skills to build rapport quickly and effectively manage the expectations of system users;
Strong technical leadership and ability to provide direction to delivery team members and developers
Ability to present technical concepts, analysis and solutions to a wide technical as well as non-technical audience to insure broad adoption of the overall data architectural plan
Desirable skills
Expertise of TOGAF as an architectural framework
Closing date: Sunday 7th February 2021 at 11.59pm