Chief Architect

Role: Chief Architect

Type: Contract

Stance: Outside IR35

Location: Gloucester/Hybrid

Clearance: BPSS / SC

Start Date: ASAP

Rate: £700 - £775 per day

Responsibilities:

Working with senior client stakeholders to understand required technical capabilities and timelines across related sets of large scale Information Systems delivery programmes.

• Provide a leadership role within the client side team. Work with client side functional leads to develop and action time bound organisational capability delivery increments.

• Work with delivery project teams to identify opportunities to trial new ways of working. Identify lessons learned and feedback into approach.

• Provide outward facing support into Army HQ, Defence Digital and the Army end customer. Cohere approach with transformation activities running outside of immediate client side delivery team.

• Identify required skills to sustain gains made. Support recruitment as necessary and inform subsequent capability delivery vehicles.

• Support effective technical decision making as required and present clear ways ahead for stakeholders. Seek to empower others (client team members and colleagues providing client-side support).

• Help drive improvements in the operation of key delivery programmes to become 'architecturally led' and to benefit from System of Systems & service thinking.

Skills & Experience:

• Understanding of the Deployed and Tactical Military Domains in areas such as ISTAR, Communications and Information Systems (CIS) and Cyber

• Awareness of relevant technology markets

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to create influence

• Ability to build constructive relationships with clients, including adapting to their culture and ways of working

• Excellent understanding of Defence Digital & Military customers and their business processes, specifically: Army's Intelligence, Planning and Targeting Cycles and associated doctrine.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to summarise, write and deliver concise technical information and to apply appropriate data visualisation techniques

• Experience within one or more of MOD environments (Air, Land, Maritime, C4ISR)

• Ability to innovate and develop roadmaps

• Proven track record in enterprise architecture, identifying opportunities for cost saving and reducing technical debt

• Knowledge and understanding of Military Communications and Information Systems (CIS), and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems

• Understanding of both the military customer and defence procurement.

• Experience in the application of ITIL in the MoD domain

• Understanding of Defence Digital Common Approach to Architecture (CAA)

• Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Desirable)

• Ability to identify and assess risks and to advise on risk mitigation strategies

• Broad Knowledge of a range of enterprise-scale ICT delivery mechanisms and software technologies (including Application Hosting, Big Data, DevOps and Virtualised Cloud Services)

• Good awareness of Safety and Security Management practices in the MoD domain.

• Hands on experience of configuration management & baseline development through lifecycle on complex programmes

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