Senior Solution Architect
Department for Work and Pensions
Apply before 11:55 pm on Saturday 23rd November 2024
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Job summary
Do you want to play a significant role in designing a scalable and sustainable health data platform?
Have you previously established foundational data standards, principles, policies and procedures to enable data to be accessed and managed in a secure and trusted manner?
If so, this role may be perfect for you!
You will help teams understand how to build services collaboratively with other teams, making use of shared components and following best practice when building those components.
The Health & Disability Team needs an experienced 'full stack' solution architect specialising in data.
The post is in the Health Data Platform Team, within Service Orchestration, whose purpose is to orchestrate delivery, ensure value, drive certainty, and achieve consensus.
You’ll be line managed by a Lead Solution Architect, collaborating with other architects across the Health & Disability and Data & Analytics functions, and assigned to a multidisciplinary team.
Job description
As a Senior Solution Architect, you will:
- Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of services
- Work with engineering teams, and other Digital stakeholders, to create value for money solution designs
- Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the DWP Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Road maps
- Identify, capture, share, iterate, and implement architecture patterns
- Drive resolution of technical debt, to reduce the ongoing cost of DWP IT services
- Develop product road maps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, to gain approval to proceed with designs
- Support the development of the DWP Architecture Practice
Person specification
When giving details in your employment history and Personal Statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Modern Analytics and BI architectures – Data Mesh / Data Lakes / Data Lakehouse
- Schema and data acquisition design
- Able to assist in the development and implementation of Data Strategies
- Modern event-driven distributed architectures, and the implications for acquiring and managing distributed data sets
- Mastering and moving data in Domain Driven Design Contexts
- Security technical controls for handling PI data both on prem and in the Cloud
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact isaac.morrison@dwp.gov.uk.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Turning business problems into technical design
- Technical breadth
Benefits
Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial well being, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and well being support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £55,557 to £70,000.
The maximum salary for the grade is £66,058, however a Digital Allowance of up to £3,942 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
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Selection process details
Stage 1: Application
Your application will consist of three parts:
1. A Personal Details application form.
2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, plus your qualifications and relevant training. Please copy this information into the box field provided.
3. Personal Statement up to 1000 words. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed in the Person Specification.
The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.
You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your CV and Personal Statement.
For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital.
Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign.
Important Information
• You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
• Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
• If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
Stage 2: Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours and Technical Skills:
Behaviours
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together.
Technical Skills
• Turning business problems into technical designs
• Technical breadth.
You will also be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.
Candidates will be asked to submit, prior to interview, a short presentation (5 minutes, 2-3 PowerPoint slides) on an architecture design you've been involved in, explaining the key architecture designs made, and their rationale.
Interviews will take place from early to mid December 2024. Interview dates to be confirmed.
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page.
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Job contact :
- Name : Isaac Morrison
- Email : isaac.morrison@dwp.gov.uk
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- Email : digitalrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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