Lead Network Domain Architect

Do you have strong technical Network design knowledge and experience?

Do you like to engage with a variety of architects and technical leads working on a wide range of different solutions?

Can you provide useful, actionable input and advice to teams building or buying network solutions and technologies?

Are you good at engaging with senior influential architecture and product stakeholders?

As the Lead Domain Architect for Networks in DWP Digital, you will lead, manage and deliver aspects of this domain’s architecture activities to meet customer needs.

You will develop strategies, blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns for DWP networks.

You will share your Networks domain knowledge and experience to drive IT strategy, including definition of the tools and techniques most appropriate for particular environments.

You will be part of a small core team of Domain Architects helping to define, and ensure conformance to strategy of, DWP Digital solutions.

As the Lead Domain Architect for Networks in DWP Digital, you will lead, manage and deliver aspects of this domain’s architecture activities to meet customer needs.

The successful candidate for this role will:

• Identify, capture, share and refine reference patterns and architectures, and technology choices, to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Govern solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
• Support the delivery of a Networks technology roadmap.
• Research, understand and communicate Network Domain-related IT industry trends - emergence of new technology challenges and capabilities.
• Provide expert advice to Solution Architects within Delivery project teams on the network design elements of their solutions.
• Consult a wide range of stakeholders, including Solution Architects, to create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases.
• Work closely with projects to ensure their design artefacts are at the appropriate standard for the Design Authority and ensure Network Design patterns are correctly referenced.