Senior Technical Architect

Senior Technical Architect

Contract Term: 6 Months

Contracting Authority: MOD          

Location: Occasional travel - Porton Down, Salisbury or Portsdown West, Fareham

As a Senior Technical Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring design governance across Dstl’s digital estate. You will work to influence and contribute to digital strategy and direction. You will provide corporate governance and technical advice to digital programmes, projects and services to ensure that Dstl strategy, policy and design principles are adhered to whilst taking into account customer requirements to provide advice and direction. There is a requirement to maintain and develop design principles, policy and standards, authoring sub-strategy and related documentation. You will maintain and develop good working relationships between the Dstl Architects’ team and the relevant internal and external key stakeholders.

As a Senior Technical Architect your main responsibilities would be: 

• Be responsible for ensuring design governance across Dstl’s digital estate. Work to influence and contribute to digital strategy and direction. Provide corporate governance and technical advice to digital programmes, projects and services to ensure that Dstl strategy, policy and design principles are adhered to whilst taking into account customer requirements to provide advice and direction. Maintain and develop design principles, policy and standards, authoring sub-strategy and related documentation. Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them to make decisions based on risk and complexity. Turn business problems into technical design. Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. Works across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• Hands on experience of working as an Applications, Technical, Solution or Enterprise Architect. Experience of working with and writing architectural strategy, policies and processes. Experience of working within a similar governance and/or assurance role. Experience of writing and reviewing technical design documentation. Experience of constructively challenging proposed approaches and solutions, taking into account wider opportunities, impacts and longer term strategy. Comprehensive knowledge of application and systems architectures.

Must hold active SC Clearance

Desirable:

• Experience of operating in a similar role in wider industry; public sector or MOD. Working with a strategic outsource partner in a context applicable to the offered role. Knowledge of working to the MOD requirements for secure computing regarding policies and best practice (JSP440, SPF, GPG etc.) and their application within a secure environment. Working within ITIL (operations), TOGAF (Architecture) and PRINCE2 (projects) frameworks.

If this Senior Technical Architect role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with rishon.reid@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

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Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.