System Performance Architect

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Manchester Digital Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Technical Architect to join our team at Manchester Digital. As a key member of our organization, you will be responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions that meet the needs of our users.

Your primary focus will be on ensuring the overall technical design of our projects meets user needs and acceptance criteria, while conforming to time and budget constraints. You will thrive in an agile environment, working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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 constraints.
  • 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 development teams to identify strategic requirements and dependencies.
  • Help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes.
  • Be involved in the wider software engineering community, including cyber security and operations teams, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing your experiences, eg through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc.
  • Enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices.
  • Ensure delivery is aligned with the GDS Way and work with others across GDS to keep that up to date and relevant.
  • Advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog.
Person Specification

We are looking for individuals with:

  • Leadership of team, management of outcome.
  • Experience leading technical teams and delivering user-focused services.
  • Awareness and understanding of a range of tech stacks and the ability to take a balanced approach to technology selection.
  • Experience designing and building secure and scalable user-focused systems and an awareness of emerging security issues.
  • Understanding of how to influence senior management and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and devops cultures.
  • Understanding of how governance works in agile, multidisciplinary team environments and be interested in forming government best practices, standards and policies.
What We Offer

As a Technical Architect at Manchester Digital, you will have access to a range of benefits, including:

  • Flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours.
  • A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
  • 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days.
  • An extra day off for The King's birthday.
  • An in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance.
  • Career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development.
  • A focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme.
  • Job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK.
  • Advances on pay, including for travel season tickets.
  • Cycle to work scheme and facilities.
  • Access to children's holiday play schemes across different locations in central London.
  • Access to an employee discounts scheme.
  • 10 learning days per year.
  • Volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year).
  • Access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning.

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