Lead Technical Architect

Lead Technical Architect – Inside IR35

Contract Term: 7 months     

Contracting Authority: DWP

Location: Hybrid – Sheffield, Manchester or Blackpool 2 days per week

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment.
• Increase saving for, and security in later life.
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children.
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants.
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity.

This role is for a Lead Technical Architect in the Mobile team for DWP Digital, which is responsible for all things DWP mobile including MDM, Infrastructure, apps, controls and hardware. The product team is a multi-disciplinary team and operates in a product ownership model with ownership of product strategy, roadmap, budget, policy and delivery.

As a Lead Technical Architect your main responsibilities would be to:

• Design and represent architecture solutions. Maintain product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint.
• Provide technical leadership for the team.
• Ensure value and quality is achieved for the end-to-end technology solution and user experience of the digital Product/Service.
• Work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders (engineers, policy, legal, other Digital colleagues including x-government if necessary) to create solution designs that meet user needs.
• Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums.

Essential:

• An active SC Clearance is highly desirable, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo SC Clearance checks.
• Previous experience in a Lead Technical Architect role in a large and complex IT environment.
• Experience of working in AWS environments.
• Experience and knowledge of Windows server, networking, firewalls, VPN and load balancers.
• Experience of API driven architecture, NodeJS and CI/CD deployment strategy.
• Experience of iOS and Android.
• Experience of Mobile Device Management (MDM).

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with daniel.mcbride@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.