The Disclosure and Barring Service is recruiting for a Chief Architect to join their team.
Directorate: Technology and Innovation
Grade: 6
Location: Flexible
Reports to: Executive Director of Technology and Innovation
Line Management: Yes
Security Clearance level required: SC.
DBS operates in the complex world of safeguarding, protecting people's 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.
The Chief Architect will lead and develop the architecture function within the Disclosure and Barring Service and provide 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.
Responsibilities:
* Holding responsibility for the continued evolution of the architecture vision
* Ensuring that the architecture vision aligns to and facilitates the delivery of the DBS Business Strategy
* Deploying all necessary tools and techniques accordingly
* Identifying and articulating technology-led transformation opportunities
* Operating within agile and waterfall methodologies
* Assuring that delivery teams deliver solutions that align to the architecture vision
* Ensuring that the solution development lifecycles deployed are appropriate to the objectives
Minimum Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have:
* 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:
Desirable criteria include 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, and strong background in agile development.
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