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ICT Application Solutions Architect

Employer
Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)
Location
Croydon, Canary Wharf, Birmingham
Salary
£44,340 per annum plus £4,266 London weighting allowance if based in Canary Wharf or Croydon
Closing date
20 Feb 2019

Job Details

PURPOSE

The ICT Solution Architects reside within the ICT team and have co-responsibility for the application architecture and maintaining of the Application portfolio.  They will have responsibility for the designing and managing the delivery of application solutions that service the IOPC’s current and target operating needs.

As the IOPC are transitioning, the ICT Solution Architects will be pivotal to ensure the organisation has the technology which is agile, available and fit for purpose. The roles will act as the conduit and coordinator between the technical, information and business architecture layers of the IOPC, the roles support ICT enterprise solution architect to ensure ICT capabilities align to the OnePlan (the central, co-ordinated business strategy).

Being part of a Service orientated ICT Team, the ICT Solutions Architects will use their technical expertise to:

  • Evaluate application technologies and make recommendations for best uses for the IOPC, to develop the IOPC application strategy.
  • Analyse data flows between IOPC application solutions and those of its partnering stakeholders, with the view to design and create new applications solutions or improving existing solutions.
  • Support the creation, via iterative development, of the application architecture, to support the maintenance of boundaryless Information flow across the business
  • Ensure the IOPC architecture conforms to and actively exhibits the key principles, methods and models, shaping the organisation's current and future state. 
  • Manage the running of software tests, developing product prototypes and creating architectural technical documents relating to application development.
  • Provide and share expertise with other team members in areas of application architecture and software development.
  • Support programmes and projects that enable the evolution of the business to fulfil its strategic direction.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders and partners within ICT and across the business, to interpret and refine business goals and drivers for the alignment of the future ICT strategy to the OnePlan.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • The post holder will be expected to hold or gain security clearance to SC level.
  • Provide specialist technology expertise.
  • Conduct and present strategic assessments of current organisation capabilities to identify required or desired changes for enterprise-wide application solutions.
  • Encourage programme/project leads and service owners to adhere to agreed management frameworks and approaches.
  • Support the transition of applications to suitable platforms and hosting arrangements in accordance with the ICT strategy and programme of works
  • Produce reports as appropriate for architecture and project governance, including making recommendations for changes to the agreed scope.
  • Provide strategic advice, guidance and direction to database designers, application developers, technical architects and others to achieve the desired architecture target state.
  • Produce required artefacts to describe the inter-relationships between people, organisation, service, process, data, information, technology and the external environment.
  • Collaborate with other architects, ICT suppliers, business and framework leads to develop and embed standard architecture processes, that promote the synchronised management of organisation wide and extended architecture programmes and projects.
  • Use appropriate modelling, prioritisation and environmental trend techniques to identify and convey the business benefits of pursuing alternative strategies and approaches. 
  • Develop option, proposal and recommendation papers to secure buy-in, approval and funding for application development.
  • Be responsible for the designs of the high-level structures to enable and guide the development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs.
  • Lead application support and development resources to manage the Information layer (data & application) and coordinate the relationship with the technology layer and its components.
  • Assist with embedding required changes to service, process, organisation to improve ICT, the businesses operating models and drive innovation.
  • Work with internal and external technical architects, ICT Business Relationship and Service Delivery Managers to ensure that the disaggregating, decommissioning and on-boarding of applications, services or platforms supports current and future architecture and business visions.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders on practices and processes to ensure the security, compliance, quality, integrity, safety and availability of all forms of data and data structures which form the organisation’s information layer.
  • Champion the tactical strategy for master data management, that supports the management of data and information in all its forms and structures. (including logical analysis of taxonomies, data and metadata)
  • Promote innovative ways for managing the organisations application architecture in line with legal compliance and best practice.
  • Contribute to the ICT infrastructure and strategic technology change projects.
  • Deputising for the ICT Enterprise solution Architect and represent the ICT service as a whole.
  • Undertake any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

The post holder must be able to demonstrate:

  • SC clearance
  • 2 years+ Experience in at least 2 of the following: SQL, JQuery, SOAP, XML, Java script, .Net.
  • 1 year  + Experience API and SOA technology
  • 3 years+ Experience of working as a developer within house development teams
  • 2 years+ Experience of developing and managing CMS, Workflow management solutions and EDRM’s using at least 2 of the following;
    • SharePoint 2010 +,
    • CRM,
    • Tricostar,
    • Excel,
    • Drupal,
    • Powerapps & Flow.
  • Experience managing and working with external suppliers to deliver high quality application solutions.
  • Extensive knowledge and experience of Software Development Lifecycle and project management Approaches (SDLC) (agile, waterfall, iteration and SOA)
  • 1 year+ Knowledge and experience of developing application solutions as IAAS, PAAS and SAAS, including; Azure, AWS, O365 and open source options
  • Experience developing technical architecture governance documentation
  • Exposure to Architecture modelling languages and tools; UML, ArchiMate
  • Understanding of at least one enterprise and solution Architecture frameworks; TOGAF, ZACHMAN, DODAF etc.
  • Knowledge and experience in business and project methodologies and frameworks such as Prince2, PMP, Agile and ITIL
  • 1year+ Experience developing conceptual, logical and physical architectural models
  • Experience of building strong working relationships with a variety of stakeholders
  • Experience of information and data management integration tools and techniques such as analysis of taxonomies, data warehouse approaches (KIMBALL) and metadata management
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
  • Positive can-do attitude and flexibility of approach.
  • Understanding of the legal issues relating to IS/IT e.g.
  • Knowledge or awareness one of the following;
    • Record management and archive practices in line with ISO 15489
    • ISO 90001
    • SIAM professional BOK.
    • Data Protection,
    • Freedom of Information and Computer Misuse Acts,
    • copyright, intellectual property rights

Key Relationships:

The post holder will work closely with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, but with a focus on key business change stakeholder such as Project Management Office (PMO), Business Development(BD) and  Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) Team.

The successful applicant will forge close working relationships with colleagues in ICT including the Business Relationship Managers, Service Delivery Managers, Change Manager, and those engaged with ICT disaggregation and transformation.

Company

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) oversees the police complaints system in England and Wales. We investigate the most serious matters, including deaths following police contact, and set the standards by which the police should handle complaints. We use learning from our work to influence changes in policing.

We are independent, and make our decisions entirely independently of the police and government.

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