Technical Architect

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The Met Office is recruiting for Technical Architects to join our fantastic team in Exeter (with hybrid/remote working).

The starting salary will be £45,150 with opportunities to progress to £49,890 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.

Our total reward package is potentially worth up to £68,111 per annum, which includes basic salary, market forces supplement, potential corporate bonus, employer pension contributions.

This role attracts a market forces supplement of £4,500 per annum paid quarterly, pro-rated from the date of taking up the appointment to 31 March 2022 - this scheme is currently under review.

The Benefits:

Outstanding Civil Service pension

Discretionary corporate bonus

Flexible hours and homeworking

Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years

Option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment

Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories

Who we are

The Met Office, an organisation with some of the most advanced technology within UK government, and enabling the realisation of weather and climate science to services, needs great people to join us and help us exploit all of the technological benefits that the recent £1.2bn investment in our supercomputer will bring.

The Met Office is built on a strong foundation of science and technology excellence. We provide advice and services to industry and the public as well as government both in the UK and through international routes such as COP26. As national weather service for the UK, we provide services that make a difference to lives and livelihoods, providing insights into the weather and climate to help people stay safe and thrive. We need the IT services we create to be secure, efficient, and effective and for this, we depend on the expertise of our dedicated development teams.

You'll be leading some of those teams, working with developers, other architects as well as product managers and both internal and external stakeholders. You'll be using agile methodologies and UX best practice to build and support solutions for our users across a portfolio that literally ranges from the surf to the sun.

We put our people at the heart of our decisions as an employer and aim to provide outstanding working conditions and career development opportunities. We will invest heavily in training and personal development to help you to reach your highest potential.

We'd like to actively encourage applications from all backgrounds including neurodiverse candidates, those with a disability, those from a minority ethnic background as well as those returning to work after a long career break, or those for with caring responsibilities for whom part time and flexible working is preferable. We'll do our best to agree a working pattern that suits you.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

Leadership and Governance - You can lead and mentor internal and external delivery teams with differing degrees of maturity working on concurrent deliveries. You collaborate with your colleagues to meet your area's goals in a secure sustainable manner. Have an agile driven mindset while being realistic to the internal constraints in any organisation. You can understand technical governance and participate in or deliver the assurance of a service.

Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical - You can translate technical concepts relating to software engineering, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all.

Making and guiding decisions - You can make and guide effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached. You must have the ability to understand and resolve technical disputes across varying levels of complexity and risk

Turning business problems into solution designs -You can work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into secure technical designs. You can create an optimal design through an iterative process, aligning the user need with the system requirements and organisational objectives.

Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

1. Strategy - You can produce a strategy for technology that meets business needs. You can create, refine and challenge patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements

2. Understanding the whole context -You can look beyond the immediate technical problem and identify the wider implications. You can 'zoom out' in 3 dimensions: knowing relevant historical context and future impact; understanding how current work fits in broader strategies; and looking for deeper underlying problems and opportunities.

How to apply and further information

We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster where in operation. The hiring manager will be able to let you know if this applies to this job.

To apply, please click on the link below and attach the most recent version of your CV, along with a cover letter which briefly states your experience against each essential and desirable criteria.

Closing date Sunday 7th November 2021 with interviews commencing from w/c 15th November. We update all applicants once the vacancy has closed and applications have been reviewed. At present, all interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.