Technical Architect

1 month ago


Salford, United Kingdom UK Civil Service Full time

Job summary

About us�

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.�

About the role��

We�re a small collaborative, supportive team and as we look to grow and deliver more services, we are looking for two experienced technical architects with a strategic mindset to lead the design of services within one of our this role you will have influence at a high level to guide the design of these services through both Alpha and Omega, and the opportunity to step up to a portfolio level. We code in the open (see our code here: ) and our primary tech stack is Python/Django, Nodejs/React, running on AWS. DBT optimises the architecture for change. We are aware that we don�t know all the future needs of our users and this needs to be reflected in the service architecture. �

Job description

Main responsibilities��

You will be:�

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the development team. �Design services & system integration, selecting technologies to meet user needs. �Build and maintain technical roadmaps. �Facilitate integrations and reuse with other development teams. �Rapidly build prototypes to demonstrate and test architectural patterns. �Document, communicate and manage the evolution of services and infrastructure through architecture decision records. �Advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of user stories. �Form relationships with external suppliers. �Be accountable for the technical strategy of a portfolio. �

Person specification

Skills and experience�

It is essential that you have:�

Leadership within a fast-changing environment. �Designing services used at scale using modern back & front-end technologies. �Being responsible for technical teams and delivering user-focused services in multi-disciplinary agile teams. �An ability to build consensus between diverse and often conflicting interests, to achieve agreement on technical plans. �Introducing practices such as TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps to teams. �Working with cloud infrastructure and services. �Knowledge of open-source principles and technologies. Designing secure systems and awareness of emerging security issues. �Communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences. �

�It is desirable that you have:�

View of technology as an enabler of great digital services. �Working in a dynamic organisation with changing requirements. �

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �67,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes �18,090 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversityA with an average employer contribution of 27%

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