Lead Technical Architect for Service Transformation
5 months ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 326593**Salary**:
- £66,212 - £87,098- £66,212 - £87,098 Based on capability. The base salary of this grade is £64,700 for other locations. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance**Job grade**:
- Grade 6**Contract type**:
- Permanent**Business area**:
- GDS - Business and People Services**Type of role**:
- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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Location
- Bristol, ManchesterAbout the job
**Job summary**:
GDS exists to help government make brilliant public services that empower people in the UK. We work at the very centre of government to drive digital transformation, focused on users. We build and maintain common platforms, products and tools for others to use and create great public services that are accessible, inclusive and easy to use. We also work with departments to identify patterns, share learning and create change to make government more efficient.
Our teams are organised around delivering on our priorities. These are:
- making it easier for people to find what they are looking for on GOV.UK
- building common service platforms to make it simpler and cheaper to build quality digital services
- promoting agile, user-centred design practices both in the UK and across the world
The Service Transformation Team provides teams across government with expertise and guidance, and supports the adoption of GDS products to design and build user-centred digital services. Working collaboratively with teams, we will identify and implement improvements to services to improve the user journey for citizens.
**Job description**:
As a GDS Lead Technical architect, you’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. You will help design and drive the technical strategy for the area you work in while ensuring alignment with broader GDS standards and goals. You’ll hold the vision for technical architecture best practice in building resilient and reliable government services and communicate this to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
Lead Technical Architects often work across different teams and services; this role also works across other government organisations. You’ll ensure that technical designs meet 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 government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo.
As a Lead Technical Architect, you’ll:
- lead by example, be a visible leader who takes responsibility and acts as a role model
- contribute to the development and iteration of GDS architectural and engineering practices, principles and standards
- design technical services or plan system integration, selecting necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs
- provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring designs & solutions are fit for purpose, whilst meeting time and budget restraints
- build and maintain technical roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by development teams align with the strategy
- encourage communication across multiple teams and wider organisational areas to identify strategic requirements and dependencies
- help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes
- advise teams on the right mix of capabilities to achieve their roadmapped goals and desired service levels
- work with senior technologists to define and shape how technical governance works across GDS to ensure decision making is happening in the right moments
- act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc
- be involved in helping recruiting technical architects and other senior technologists, where appropriate, helping sift and interview
- manage, coach and mentor more junior Technical Architects as well as others in the wider software engineering community
**Person specification**:
We’re interested in people who:
- a passion for technology and its delivery in building a user-centric service in an ever changing space, ensuring the right technology solutions meet outcomes for our users
- an understanding of how to influence, manage and challenge complex stakeholder relationships and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
- experience of developing and managing high performing, agile, technical teams and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture across boundaries and loca
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