Lead Solution Architect

Graphics Unlimited (Vic) Pty Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Lead Solutions Architect, where your expertise will shape digital solutions impacting millions across the UK. You'll work in a dynamic environment, leading a talented team to design innovative architectures that meet user needs and drive efficiency. With a focus on collaboration and best practices, you'll influence key stakeholders and contribute to significant projects that empower families. Enjoy a hybrid working model, competitive pay, and a generous benefits package that prioritizes your work-life balance and professional growth. This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference in the public sector.

Benefits

28.97% employer pension contributions

Flexible working hours

Generous leave package

Time off for volunteering

Professional development opportunities

Interest-free loans for commuting

Sports and social activities

Qualifications

• Experience in leading architecture design across multiple teams.
• Significant experience in public cloud technologies and API-led architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the solutions architecture for the Children & Families team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure cost-effective solutions.

Skills

Architecture design

Microservice architecture

API-led architecture

Cloud technologies

Stakeholder management

Application architecture design

Job description

Lead Solutions Architect

Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Lead Solutions Architect to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Leading Architecture design across multiple teams drawing upon a wide range of experience of architecture modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
• Significant experience in Microservice, event driven and API-led architecture recognising and guiding to best practice.
• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios, eg - influencing Director level stakeholders in a large-scale corporate environment.
• Experience designing application architectures, when transitioning from a complex monolithic system e.g. experience of applying the Strangler Fig pattern.
• Significant experience in public cloud technologies and cloud hosting design patterns.
• Experience in establishing and or maintaining sustainable and healthy working relationships between Architecture and Engineering both during design as well as into delivery phases.

You and your role

You'll be the Lead Solutions Architect for our Children & Families team. That means working at the forefront of DWP's solutions architecture design and development, managing and guiding a team of high-performing solutions architects to produce quality architecture design artifacts that help DWP get money to children.

You will be collaborating with stakeholders across a number of teams, ensuring solutions are cost-effective and meet user needs, advising on changes and sharing best practices with the wider solutions architecture community.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester, Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89,995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,466 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

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

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-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, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
2. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.