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The HMRC Modern Workplace Platform team are looking for two Senior Technical Architects to join the architecture team.
The Modern Workplace Platform team are engaged in an exciting period of modernisation of the departmental enterprise IT platform and the services we provide, placing us in the vanguard of HMRCs modernisation strategy.
This ambition is enabling us to significantly grow our team of architects, and we are therefore seeking up to two motivated technical architects who share our excitement about the opportunities we can offer.
Job description
Within your area of specialisation, you will be responsible for:
Creating high level solution designs, service designs and technical roadmaps, underpinning our Modern Workplace architecture, and supporting HMRC's IT strategy.
Providing technical governance for new or updated solutions utilising existing group platforms, the introduction of new services or removal of end of life services.
Delivering technical consultancy throughout the service lifecycle from project to service delivery and defining best practice and standards for the platform.
Maintaining technology currency in your areas of focus through market research and vendor relationships and using these insights to maintain roadmaps and direction.
Communicating the vision and working with customers to ensure business needs are represented in the technology roadmaps.
Person specification
A broad IT Infrastructure background in solutions or technical architecture roles working within one or more of the domains listed within the job summary.
The ability to work in challenging and unpredictable environments, playing a key role in influencing strategic decision making and understand strategic consequences of IT decisions.
A focused approach on strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction.
Essential Criteria
- Extensive experience in authoring and updating technical designs and roadmaps, supporting HMRC strategic objectives.
- Proven experience of providing internal consultancy on potential uses and appropriateness of infrastructure technologies and driving benefits from these technologies.
- An understanding of large scale infrastructure technologies including specific experience in at least one of the following: End User Device Configuration, Software Delivery, Hybrid Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), Infrastructure Security Controls, Device Management Processes and Tools, Internal Identity Management, Cloud based Identity, Identity Roles and Access Controls.
Desirable Criteria
- Azure, AWS or M365 certification.
- Professional IT architecture qualifications such as TOGAF, BCS or CITP.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments.
We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
Family friendly policies.
Personal support.
Coaching and development.