Technical Architect (£51,997 - £80,400)

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

At the heart of digital evolution in DfT, you will join a talented, experienced, cross-disciplined architecture team imagining and shaping the delivery of the next wave of digital and data services. You will support and shape various areas within the business which delivers an innovational transport policy agenda. As DfT is a cloud-only enterprise, you will develop the latest cloud solutions meeting complex digital, identity and data needs.

This role will give you the opportunity to learn and improve your skills every day as you work on new and exciting projects with advanced technologies. We provide a supportive and constructive learning environment where your career growth is important., You will develop robust, flexible solutions that support our innovative transport policies, leveraging the latest cloud technologies in Azure and Google Cloud. Your leadership and experience will support the business in developing new ways of solving business problems.

We want to hear from proactive people who are eager to grow their skills and advance their careers. You will work with other lead architects in the team, supporting each other to deliver across team's areas of focus, such as Security, Data and Infrastructure using Azure or Google Cloud.

As a Technical Architect level, you will be:

• Leading the development of secure serverless solutions and build them in cloud environments.


• Identifying ways of more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable ways of managing the cloud and the services hosted within it.


• Working with our engineering and analysis teams to build, maintain, and scale digital solutions using new tools in Google and Azure environments.


• Develop a tooling plan for cloud management and support the engineering team in identifying new opportunities for automation.


In this role we will give you the opportunity to:

• Continuously grow and develop yourself through exposure to training in the latest emerging technologies.


• Work on a range of varied projects developed in a cloud-first environment.


• Have exposure to wider challenges across the transport sector and knowledge of the latest transport data initiatives.


• Access flexible and hybrid working supporting a healthy work-life balance.


• Opportunity to collaborate with multi-disciplined teams and suppliers across the country., Architect for the whole context - We want to see where you work has gone beyond your immediate goals or remit, and benefitted the wider teams you work with.


• Architecture communication - How have you been able to communicate the complex and technical solutions you have developed across a range of non-technical stakeholders with differing user needs?


• Making architectural decisions - When you have made decisions that define the development and implementation of products, demonstrate how you have considered business needs and security risks.


Sift & Interview Dates

The sift is due to take place w/c 26th August 2024.

Interviews are due to take place w/c 09th September 2024.

This interview could be conducted via a video interview, details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• An interview


• You will be provided two interview questions 48 hours prior to your interview so you can prepare your answers in advance. This is not a presentation so you will not need to prepare any materials, we just want to give you additional time to reflect on your experience. The rest of the interview questions will not be provided in advance.


You're encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.

The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.

Reasonable Adjustments

As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.,
• UK nationals


• nationals of the Republic of Ireland


• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK


• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)


• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)


• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020


• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  We are looking for someone with hands on digital experience either designing, developing, building or understanding IT services., A technical architect works with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking. To be successful in this role you will have experience of:


Architect for the whole context - We want to see where you work has gone beyond your immediate goals or remit, and benefitted the wider teams you work with.

Architecture communication - How have you been able to communicate the complex and technical solutions you have developed across a range of non-technical stakeholders with differing user needs?

Making architectural decisions - When you have made decisions that define the development and implementation of products, demonstrate how you have considered business needs and security risks.

Strategy design - Show us some evidence of how you use road-mapping or similar planning techniques to direct the implementation of your products.

Technical design throughout the lifecycle - How do you create, and lead others to create technical designs when there is a high risk, high impact, and high complexity environment?,
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• Technical Architect - Technical design throughout the lifecycle (Skill Level: Expert), This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
  
  £51,997 - £80,400, Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.