The Disclosure and Barring Service is now recruiting for a
Chief Architect
to join their team.
Directorate: Technology and Innovation
Grade: 6
Location: Flexible including fully remote
Reports to: Executive Director of Technology and Innovation
Line Management: Yes
Security Clearance level required: SC
About the Department
DBS operates in the complex world of safeguarding, protecting peoples health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
We provide a service that enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make better informed, safer recruitment and other decisions.
Job Purpose
The Chief Architect will be responsible for leading and developing the architecture function within Disclosure and Barring Service and providing overall technology leadership at the enterprise level.
DBS operates in a complex technical and commercial environment with the challenge of legacy systems, hybrid hosting and multiple suppliers. The Chief Architect will hold responsibility for the continued evolution of the architecture vision and ensuring that this vision aligns to and facilitates the delivery of the DBS Business Strategy, deploying all necessary tools and techniques accordingly, as well as identifying and articulating technology-led transformation opportunities.
The Chief Architect will be a primary driver of the design authority, assuring that delivery teams deliver solutions that align to the architecture vision and ensuring that the solution development lifecycles deployed are appropriate to the objectives. This means that the Chief Architect must operate within agile and waterfall methodologies.
Essential Criteria
* A proven track record of using IS and IT for commercial benefit
* Strong experience of industry standard Enterprise Architecture frameworks
* Experience in the development and usage of Enterprise Architectures to achieve business outcomes
* Experience of operating architecture best practice across both agile and waterfall methodologies
* Strong technical knowledge to provide technical authority to the architecture team and wider DBS
* Demonstrable experience of producing architecture artefacts and documents
* Demonstrable experience of documenting and modelling architectures
* Experience with designing infrastructure for modern enterprise solutions, particularly Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions
* Good understanding of security architecture
* Experience of delivering Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) solutions as well as open source and proprietary programming languages/frameworks
* Experience developing and using web services (especially REST-based APIs)
* Experience with open source solutions and community
* Experience using, deploying to and migrating to Cloud based platforms
* Experience sharing knowledge and working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Experience in facilitating architecture team career and skill development
Desirable Criteria
* A good understanding of industry best practice in the use of IS/IT enabled business change
* A sound knowledge and application of architecture in a government or regulated environment
* Strong background in agile development
* Demonstrable experience of building architectural repositories.
* Architecture certification e.g. Open Group Open Certified Architect (Open CA) certification
* Enterprise Architecture certification e.g. TOGAF v9.2 Certification
* Solution certification e.g. AWS Solutions Architect, Oracle Solution certification
The closing date for applications is Monday 2nd December 2024 at 10am.