Senior Solution Architect

Do you want to play a significant role in designing a scalable and sustainable health data platform? Have you previously established foundational data standards, principles, policies and procedures to enable data to be accessed and managed in a secure and trusted manner? If so, this role may be perfect for you! You will help teams understand how to build services collaboratively with other teams, making use of shared components and following best practice when building those components. The Health & Disability Team needs an experienced 'full stack' solution architect specialising in data. The post is in the Health Data Platform Team, within Service Orchestration, whose purpose is to orchestrate delivery, ensure value, drive certainty, and achieve consensus. You'll be line managed by a Lead Solution Architect, collaborating with other architects across the Health & Disability and Data & Analytics functions, and assigned to a multidisciplinary team. As a Senior Solution Architect, you will:

• Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of services
• Work with engineering teams, and other Digital stakeholders, to create value for money solution designs
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the DWP Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Road maps
• Identify, capture, share, iterate, and implement architecture patterns
• Drive resolution of technical debt, to reduce the ongoing cost of DWP IT services
• Develop product road maps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, to gain approval to proceed with designs
• Support the development of the DWP Architecture Practice