Technical Architect
| Posting date: | 16 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,403 to £61,939 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2025 |
| Location: | York |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 401573/4 |
Summary
The Cabinet Office Digital directorate has a crucial role to play in modernising the Cabinet Office through digital transformation. The directorate has approximately 350 staff and is growing in order to meet the demands of the department, and to provide a wider and more mature range of digital, data, technology and security services.
Join CO Digital for an exciting opportunity to work on diverse projects that deliver to business units digital and data needs. Engage in advising, reviewing, designing, and delivering innovative solutions while developing your skills alongside talented colleagues. Embrace the chance to grow in a dynamic environment.
As a Technical Architect (TA), you’ll be responsible for the technical architecture of the digital services in the Cabinet Office. You’ll communicate this to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You’ll ensure a project’s overall technical design meets user needs and acceptance criteria, whilst conforming to time and budget constraints. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you’ll want to make the government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo.
As a technical architect you will be responsible for the technical design of systems and services. You will use rapid prototyping and desk research to validate the design decisions; and justify and communicate design decisions. You are good at:
- Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical;
- Turning business problems into technical design;
- Making and guiding decisions;
- Understanding the whole context.
Responsibilities
As a Technical Architect, you’ll:
- Design technical services or plan system integration, selecting necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs;
- Perform architecture deep dives and gap analysis for digital programmes and recommend technical improvements;
- Develop services by contributing design, technologies and architecting rapid prototypes;
- Provide technical consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose, whilst meeting time and budget restraints;
- Provide guidance to delivery teams, making sure that the technical direction of travel and delivery are in compliance with various government standards;
- Work with subject matter experts in the Cabinet Office to ensure the digital services are security, and in compliance with security, accessibility and data privacy standards;
- Be involved in the wider technical community, identifying good practices to adopt and informing technical strategies;
- Enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices;
- Advise delivery / product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog
- Form relationships with external suppliers and technical stakeholders;
- Help enable the reuse of patterns, tools, and components across the whole government service landscape.
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