Lead Technical Architect

Justice Digital and Technology ,
London, Greater London
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Description Job Title: Lead Technical Architect Salary: 85,000 - 95,000 (London); 80,750 - 90,250 (National) Contract type: Permanent Grade: MoJ Band Ac Number of open roles: 1 Location: London/National Hours: 37 hours/week (42 hours incl. lunch) Working pattern: Full time Closing date for applications: 16th June 2020 Interviews: From 26th June 2020 Introduction The Technology Team design, deliver and support the core infrastructure and systems that enable End User Compute Services and line of business applications for over 100,000 Ministry of Justice users across over 800 locations. Our Lead/Senior Technical Architects work with multiple projects, teams and/or business areas on problems that require broad architectural thinking. They are responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, and can justify and communicate their design decisions. Senior/Lead Technical Architects will work collaboratively with colleagues in the Technology Team, across Digital and Technology and the wider organisation and build strong relationships with Service Owners, Information Security, Customer Service Operational Teams, Project Managers and other key stakeholders. The Role You will: Undertake structured analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs that describe a solution Provide Technical Architecture Leadership throughout the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure solutions and services. Assure services and system quality, ensuring the systems integration function works effectively. Ensure solutions fit into the broader strategy for government. Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge Mentor and coach colleagues Establish standards and procedures across a service lifecycle including the development lifecycle. Anticipate and advise on future technology changes that present opportunities for the product or programme. Acting as subject matter expert, be directly involved in service delivery, troubleshooting and identifying problems across different technology capabilities including compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source. You'll Have Our Senior/Lead Technical Architects are expected to have a good understanding of a broad range of technologies at all levels of the technology stack and be able to converse easily with and translate between non-technical stakeholders and technical practitioners. Essential: Able to turn business problems into technical design - The ability to work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs. Experience of building application configuration and lifecycle management in Intune (or another cloud management ecosystem) Deep technical knowledge in the design, configuration and operation of the Microsoft 365 cloud productivity workloads (Office 365, AzureAD, Enterprise Mobility and Security) Able to switch between different problems and responsibilities Able to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical - Translates technical concepts between software engineering, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all. Making and guiding decisions - Capable of making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached. Understanding the whole context - The ability to look beyond the immediate technical problem and identify the wider implications. You should have practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures, and how to build services and applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer. Adept at lateral thinking with the ability to dissect a problem to its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. A working knowledge of unix-like operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X Has a strong understanding and application of the most appropriate modern standards and practices. Desirable: Demonstrable experience of agile development in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or similar, and their associated frameworks, and ideally working knowledge of several programming languages. Experience of introducing practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps to teams A solid background in version control with Git, and experience of automated testing techniques, continuous integration, automated deployment pipelines and associated infrastructure. Governance - Understands technical governance and is able to participate in or deliver the assurance of a service. Strategy - Capable of producing strategy for technology that meets business needs. Able to create, refine and challenge patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. Skills and Experience We're looking for an individual with strong interpersonal skills who likes working with delivery focused and agile multidisciplinary teams. You will also contribute to the wider communi

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