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Solutions Architect
- Posted 24 September 2021
- Salary £500 - £525 per day + Inside IR35
- LocationEngland
- Job type Contract
- ReferenceBBBH123341_1632482750
Job description
A large Government client are seeking a Solutions Architect on an initial 6 month contract to work with them on their technology transformation. This role will fall inside of the IR35 Regulations and the successful candidate must have the following:
Key accountabilities and responsibilities
- Understand an organisation's ecosystem and its inter-dependencies, ensuring quality and integrity of new solutions in our ecosystem
- Design technical solutions to meet user and business needs and align with the clients technical strategy and standards
- Guide projects in making the correct technology decisions, promoting reuse, sustainability and scalability to achieve value for money
- Translate technical concepts between systems engineering, delivery management and service management, as well as developing and documenting the proposed technical design for the integration and implementation of any solution
- Provide a consistent set of solution views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders, making the complex simple to understand
- Work with internal stakeholders to support discovery and design work, blending technical and communication skills
- Provide assurance to the Technical Design Authority that technical solutions comply with the Government Digital Services Technology Code of Practice design principles and standards
- Working within the Architecture team, establish and maintain architectural principles, standards, blueprints, roadmaps and transitions states that underpin all technical design and delivery
- Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the architectural principles, standards and enterprise architecture, whilst ensuring coherence with the wider government approach to technology
- Lead the work within projects to embed the architectural design gates within the overall governance process ensuring reference information is published, maintained and readily available
Key skills and knowledge
- A sound knowledge of architecture methodologies and frameworks and experience of their application
- Experience of modern IT paradigms including event-based architecture design, containerisation, microservices and loose coupling
- Experience of an API-first and services-led design approach, with the ability to use business requirements, user stories, data standards, and integration patterns to help to define services and APIs
- An understanding of low-code technologies (particularly MS Power Platform , Dynamics and O365 products)
- A good understanding of a broad range of technologies including development and specification languages (such as HTML/CSS, C# .Net and .NET Core, Java), transactional databases and DWHs, as well as some experience of NoSQL (such as CosmosDB and MongoDB) and CI/CD tools (such as Terraform and Jenkins)
- A sound knowledge of cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, serverless, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice (e.g. Microsoft Azure)
Key competencies
- A broad and up-to-date knowledge of current state and emerging developments across technology areas including infrastructure, networks, applications and data; bringing this knowledge and expertise to bear in the design of systems
- An ability to translate your understanding and communicate across technical and non-technical stakeholders, advocating for a dynamic, design-led and architected approach, as well as facilitating discussions within a multi-disciplinary team
- Working with the Head of Enterprise Architecture, establish and maintain architectural principles, standards, blueprints, roadmaps and transitions states that underpin all technical design and delivery
Key performance measures
- Supporting the development of the Architecture Practice across the client and across wider government
- That all solutions support our architectural principles, standards, blueprints, roadmaps and transitions states
