Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Max Supplier Charge Rate: £650

Clearance required: SC cleared

Location: Remote

This role requires additional vetting, which means this could take longer than our normal onboarding process. You will require additional vetting for this position, which means the process can take longer than the usual onboarding process

Job Description:

• Designs application products to meet user needs and align with DWP strategy and standards.
• Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
• Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
• Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.

Responsibilities -

• To design and represent architecture solutions
• Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of projects/initiatives
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with other Digital professionals
• Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design
• Make technology choice proposals for Products
• Create high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
• To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
• Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs
• Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt
• To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint
• Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering
• Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns
• To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community
• Sharing best practice and reference architectures
• Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice

Skills -

• Significant Architecture experience
• Government/Public client experience
• AWS/Azure Solution experience and relevant certification (good to have)