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Senior Architect. £67,400 + Benefits

Permanent, Hybrid.

West Midlands

Staffordshire Police Force

The experience expected from applicants, as well as additional skills and qualifications needed for this job are listed below.

If you would like to experience playing a critical role in the architectural journey for one of the UK’s largest police forces delivering intelligence-led policing, then this may be the role for you.

Staffordshire Police are seeking exceptional individuals, with a proven background in technical transformation at scale, who can deliver the upgrades and continuous improvement that The Force needs.

The role

As a Senior Architect, your function will be to govern and maintain the overall technical architecture solution for the force; ensuring that all work undertaken adheres to agreed standards, design principles and architecture methodology.

Reporting into the DDaT Manager and Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for understanding the current and future requirements for The Force; creating roadmaps, setting strategy and as a result identify opportunities for leveraging information and digital technology

You will be responsible for ensuring that all infrastructure, software, security and service innovations align with an underpinning roadmap. You will be confident inl providing effective solution designs and maintain suitable documentation that fully describes the architecture within the force.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Define and maintain documentation that articulates the current state software portfolio and interfaces across the force
• Review new or changed legislation and its impact on adopted force technology standards
• Presentation of architecture outputs to stakeholders at various levels of technical understanding within the force;
• Define, manage and govern infrastructure standards and capabilities for the deployment of business, data, and application services
• Being Accountable for the detailed software and supporting infrastructure design aspects of solutions
• Accountable for any impact assessment process to provide SME input on proposed initiatives, offering high level cost estimates for implementation

About you:

You can confidently demonstrate significant experience of designing and architecting technical solutions within a large complex multi-faceted organisation; translating user requirements into solution designs, often in front of large groups.

Communication is key in this role as you embark on an exciting architectural and stake-holder led journey through the force; liaising and building strong relationships across The Force in both Project and BAU technical environments.

Ideally you will possess working knowledge of ITIL (Intermediate +), TOGAF/COBIT, or an equivalent framework; as well as CITP or FBCS

How to apply:

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