Senior Technical Architect - Digital Transformation & API

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead the technical design of complex systems and services across major digital transformation programs. You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to shape options, provide expert advice, and govern architecture decisions to deliver secure, scalable government services that meet user needs.

This role offers the opportunity to influence architectural choices and work across multiple projects

Qualifications

• Architecture design across on-prem, cloud and hybrid environments involving networking, security, presentation, middleware, database, and integration aspects.
• Architecture design informed through use of principles, patterns, technical radars, practices and standards.
• Architecture design working with project delivery teams within agile, waterfall and hybrid environments throughout the lifecycle - from concept to go-live.
• Translating business requirements into technical solutions with traceability that can be demonstrated to stakeholders.
• Architecture design through use of architecture modelling techniques and tools to devise and represent.
• Microservice and API-led architecture and integration design tools, techniques and best practice.
• Event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions.
• Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government.
• Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment.
• Provide mentoring within teams.

Skills

Architecture design

On-prem/cloud/hybrid

Architectural standards

Delivery lifecycle

Requirements traceability

Modelling techniques

Microservice/API-led

Event-driven architecture

Job description

DWP Digital in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead the technical design of complex systems and services across major digital transformation programs. You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to shape options, provide expert advice, and govern architecture decisions to deliver secure, scalable government services that meet user needs.

This role offers the opportunity to influence architectural choices and work across multiple projects