Lead Cloud Solutions Architect for Enterprise & Cost Efficiency

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution (civil service)

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Flexible working options

Job summary

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Solution Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture practice. You will provide technical and advisory leadership, focusing on cloud-based digital services, solutioning, and oversight to ensure business objectives are achieved cost-effectively.

You will work within a team of Lead Solution Architects to reduce technical debt, improve customer and colleague services, and reduce TCO, delivering value for money across

Responsibilities

• The Lead Solution Architect will work within DVSA's Enterprise Architecture practice helping to support reducing technical debt, improving customer and colleague services and reducing TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
• Predominantly focussed on architecting cloud based digital services and responsible for providing technical and advisory support, solutioning and oversight to ensure business objectives can be achieved in a cost-effective manner.
• The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for the creation and maintenance of as-is, transition and to-be Solution Architectures which meet the needs of the DVSA, whilst delivering value for money for their designated business capabilities.
• The Lead Solution Architect works with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into solution architectures. Creating an optimal design through an iterative process, aligning the user needs, functional and non-functional requirements, organisational objectives and alignment to the Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, and patterns.
• Support the architecture governance frameworks that enable the DVSA to enhance its services though the delivery of strategically aligned digital solutions and the creation and maintenance of solutions architectures that meet the needs of the business whilst delivering value for money and alignment to DVSA's Enterprise Architecture.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Job description

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Solution Architect to join the Enterprise Architecture practice. You will provide technical and advisory leadership, focusing on cloud-based digital services, solutioning, and oversight to ensure business objectives are achieved cost-effectively.

You will work within a team of Lead Solution Architects to reduce technical debt, improve customer and colleague services, and reduce TCO, delivering value for money across