You will be collaborating with stakeholders across a number of teams, ensuring solutions are cost-effective and meet user needs, advising on changes and sharing best practices with the wider solutions architecture community.
Responsibilities:
* Leading Architecture design across multiple teams drawing upon a wide range of experience of architecture modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
* Significant experience in Microservice, event-driven and API-led architecture recognising and guiding to best practice.
* Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes and portfolios, eg - influencing Director level stakeholders in a large-scale corporate environment.
* Experience designing application architectures, when transitioning from a complex monolithic system e.g. experience of applying the Strangler Fig pattern.
* Significant experience in public cloud technologies and cloud hosting design patterns.
* Experience in establishing and or maintaining sustainable and healthy working relationships between Architecture and Engineering both during design as well as into delivery phases.
We are looking for a Lead Solutions Architect to join our community of tech experts in DWP Digital. You'll be the Lead Solutions Architect for our Children & Families team, managing and guiding a team of high-performing solutions architects to produce quality architecture design artifacts that help DWP get money to children.
About DWP:
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique.
Compensation and Benefits:
Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work-life balance.
* Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
* Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,466 per year.
* Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.
* An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100).
* Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies.
* Time off volunteering and charitable giving.
* Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'.
* Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more.
* Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference.
* Sports and social activities.
* Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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