Lead Technical Architect
| Posting date: | 13 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,470 to £67,090 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £54,470 - £61,000 London: £59,900 - £67,090 plus additional skills supplement paid up to £24,543. This post offers successful candidates the opportunity to be considered for an additional Government Digital and Data Profession Capability framew |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2025 |
| Location: | Reading |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 384211/4 |
Summary
The department's broad remit impacts daily life, from the food we eat to the air we breathe and the water we drink. Within Defra, the Digital, Data and Technology Services (DDTS) team is the trusted digital partner, comprising around 1,200 colleagues. DDTS aims to make interactions with Defra easier and faster, driving innovation and pushing boundaries to create a great place for living and a green, healthy future for all.
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In this role you will navigate through multiple projects and programs, crafting and refining roadmaps, principles, and standards. Your collaboration with delivery teams will breathe life into these frameworks, ensuring that the infrastructure meets the needs of comprehensive solutions encompassing business, information, application, and technology aspects.
In Defra you will play a hands-on role in bringing designs to fruition, delivering business outcomes, and resolving conflicts in multi-initiative scenarios. Your broad and holistic architectural thinking will be crucial in ensuring the delivery of end-to-end technical architectures and designs based on specific needs and requirements.
This role is vital for meeting business and IT needs by managing technical project aspects and providing guidance. This position will collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to comprehend technical specifications and ensure that selected solutions adhere to DDaT and enterprise architectural principles, government security standards, and best practices.
In this role you will have an opportunity to continuously grow and develop yourself through exposure to training in the latest emerging technologies and reprising some older, bridging the gap that is not always perceived.
For a clearer understanding of the role's requirements, we have created an extended job description, which outlines the required skills and responsibilities needed. This can be found at the bottom of this advert. Please note you will only be assessed against the essential responsibilities, skills and experience listed in the advert.
Please note this post requires Security Check (SC) clearance. While applicants without SC clearance are welcome to apply, they must be eligible to obtain it. To be eligible for SC clearance, all applicants are required to have been a UK resident for a minimum of 5 years. If this requirement is not met, the individual will not be able to progress their application further.
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