Senior Solution Architect
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £52,412 to £70,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 349526/5 |
Summary
If so, we have an opportunity as a Senior Solution Architect, where you'll be able to bring your expertise to support evolution and technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services.
You’ll be joining a small team of solution architects for the Digital Benefit Payment Systems (BPS) team.
Together with other solution architects, engineers and delivery teams, you'll collaborate to design and develop DWP products, services and solutions to simplify operation.
We are looking for motivated Solutions Architects to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that impact the most vulnerable citizens in society. We maintain and modernise services that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives. The scale of what we do is extraordinary and our purpose is unique.
BPS are responsible for core services covering customers across DWP, including pension benefits, working age benefits and disability benefits. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform.
As a Solution Architect, you will:
- Provide architecture advice to BPS product delivery teams
- Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt. Conduct PoCs to explore and assure solution options
- Exploit the new tooling, capabilities, and technical options that the re-platformed infrastructure provides through APIs
- Drive out the migration path for data held within the re-platformed services aligning to the product roadmap.
Responsibilities
Your roles and responsibilities for this role include, but are not restricted to the following:
- Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of services
- Work with engineering teams, and other Digital stakeholders, to create VFM solution designs
- Ensure technical quality and adherence of solution designs to the DWP Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
- Identify, capture, share, iterate, and implement architecture patterns
- Drive resolution of technical debt, to reduce the ongoing cost of DWP IT services
- Develop product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs.