Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Enterprise Architecture Lead

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Bristol; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 28.97%

Annual leave 25 days + bank holidays

Flexible working

Job summary

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture practice. You will work with Lead Solution Architects to support reducing technical debt, improving customer and colleague services and reducing total cost of ownership.

You will create and maintain as-is, transition and to-be architectures for DVSA business capabilities, ensuring value for money and alignment to Enterprise Architecture principles.

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.

Job description

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture practice. You will work with Lead Solution Architects to support reducing technical debt, improving customer and colleague services and reducing total cost of ownership.

You will create and maintain as-is, transition and to-be architectures for DVSA business capabilities, ensuring value for money and alignment to Enterprise Architecture principles.