Lead Solutions Architect

Job Description

Lead Solutions Architect

Inside IR35

Contract Term:12 months

Contracting Authority: DWP

Location: Hybrid - Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Sheffield or Blackpool

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

As a Lead Solutions Architect your main responsibilities would be:

• Leading, delivering and supporting the technical and architecture design for an IT product or service.
• Working collaboratively with engineers, to create VFM solution designs that meet user needs, typically in multi-disciplinary agile teams.
• Creating solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design.
• Creating high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
• Ensuring technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps.
• Engaging with Enterprise, Domain and Security Architects to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs.
• Advocating and supporting delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt.
• Identifying, capturing, iterating, and implementing architecture patterns.
• Sharing best practice and reference architectures.
• Mentoring and coaching a small team of Senior Solution Architects.

You'll have relevant experience in:

• Able to mediate and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.

• Anticipates and exploits opportunities through the recognition of new digital technologies to enhance capability in alignment with business goals.

• Designs systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. Controls system design practice within an enterprise or industry architecture. Influences industry based models for the development of new technology applications. Develops effective implementation and procurement strategies, consistent with business needs. Ensures adherence to relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices

• Able to influence, challenge and coach. Able to anticipate how constraints might change and knows where to challenge or remove constraints.

• Designs technical solutions by dealing with problems that span the enterprise at all organisational subject areas.

• Experienced in using a variety of methods of prototyping. Shares best practice and can coach others. Looks at strategic service design end to end. Can create and validate a dynamic prototype.

If the Lead Solutions Architect role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Mark Spencer

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a 'Guaranteed Interview' scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.