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Technical Architect
Inside IR35
Contract Term: 12 months contract
Contracting Authority: MoD
Location: Remote - Occasional travel to Salisbury or Portsmouth
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.
Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you're a permanent appointee or an interim.
As a Technical Architect, your main responsibilities would be:
Duties:
- Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions
- Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government
- Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment
- Provide mentoring within teams
- Provide leadership to other architects
- Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
- Be delivering on project or programme level tasks.Provide technical leadership and mentor other architects.
- Comprehensive knowledge of application and systems architectures.
- Experience of working with commercial suppliers, understanding their motives and contractual constraints.
- The ability to quickly develop good working relationships across a range of levels and resources.
- Good interpersonal skills with an ability to translate complex technical matters to a simple business related view.
- Good networking skills.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Tact and diplomacy in dealing with a wide range of issues/challenges.
- Persistence to see things through to a conclusion
- The ability to handle conflicting priorities and successfully delivering to changing requirements
- A familiarity with writing and reviewing technical documentation within an architectural context.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Mark.Spencer@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
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.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
