Lead Solution Architect

Lead Solution Architect

Join us as Lead Solution Architect to develop new digital services, using the latest cloud technologies, for our Health & Disability Team. You'll help us improve essential services some of the most vulnerable people in the UK.

Salary between £69,869 - £89,995 p.a. plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield. We work a hybrid model - some time at home, some time in the office.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) supports over 20 million people and is responsible for over 730 million benefit payments each year totalling £182.5 billion.

Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works.

You will join a collaborative community of Solution Architects in DWP Digital to deliver our ambitious Health Transformation programme.

DWP's Health & Disability Team manages essential services and digital transformation projects which will better support some of our most vulnerable customers.

More about the position

You're an accomplished leader and communicator as well as a technical Architecture expert.

You'll partner with the Lead Product Manager and other Lead Architects to design the technical makeup of our programme's vision.

You'll identify, capture, share, iterate and implement architecture patterns, working closely with an extensive stakeholder network, including internal and external supplier teams.

You will explore the potential of relationships with engineers, policy, legal experts, and a range or multi-disciplinary practitioners from both within DWP and across government. Together you'll leverage the power of technology to design and build better services, used by millions of people.

You'll be responsible for coaching and mentoring our engineering teams, developing the overall capability of our thriving architecture practice, as well as communicating progress to your wider stakeholder network.

You'll ensure we are achieving Value for Money (VFM) across our solution designs, ensuring we resolve technical debt, and reducing the cost of DWP IT Services.

We want architecture solutions that deliver better, more efficient services that really work for us and our users. Does that sound like you? Apply today.

Your Essential Skills:

• Architecture design, modelling techniques and patterns
• Micro-service and event-based architecture design and patterns
• Relational, NoSQL and Open-Source database design/modelling, technologies and patterns
• Public cloud technologies and design patterns
• Presenting to technical governance forums
• Agile delivery methodology.

Details. Wages. Perks.

In return for your skills, we pay between £69,869 - £89,995 per annum.

You will also receive a brilliant civil service pension, with employer contributions of 28.97% worth up to £22,500 each year.

Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• 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
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

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