Technical Design Authority Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 377836**Salary**:

- £54,444- London: £58,542 (minimum)
Leeds: £54,444 (minimum)- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent
Loan
Secondment**Length of employment**:

- This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment).**Business area**:

- DHSC - Group Operations - Workplace, Information, Security and Technology**Type of role**:

- Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- Leeds, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you.

The Projects and Technical Architecture team form part of the Technology, Delivery, Strategy and Commercial team, which provides ownership and delivery of our technology strategy and is supported by Business Engagement and Commercial teams.

These teams exist within the wider Workspace, Information, Security and Technology Directorate (WIST) which provides strategic leadership on property, technology, information management and security services across the Department of Health and Social Care and its arm’s-length bodies.

The Projects and Technical Architecture team is responsible for the overall architectural control of the WIST digital and technology portfolio, providing hands-on technical leadership in the development, deployment, operation and ongoing improvement of services, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture, and ensuring consistency of design.

**Job description**:
This role will have a wide-ranging technical assurance responsibility across a broad portfolio of digital and technology operations, including M365 and Azure, as well as servicing a busy portfolio of projects and new integrations.

The role reports directly to the Head of Project Assurance & Technical Architecture and will contribute to all aspects of the team's assurance role and be active in advising and influencing a broad range of colleagues, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders.

This is an opportunity to lead an architecture practice for a key Department of State and as such will involve strategic road-mapping and collaboration with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, partner organisations and suppliers. This includes advising on and supporting a modern toolset with a wide range of integrations; benefiting both site-based and remote workers in a standardised, resilient enterprise digital and technology cloud first context.

**Person specification**:
**Role responsibilities**:
The role is responsible for all technical design authority activities including:

- Contributing to the IT strategy and maintaining its relevance as the DHSC business model evolves.
- Maintaining the architecture transition roadmap covering M365 modern workplace, Azure, networks, telephony, AV and other services.
- Overseeing the technical design and provide technical assurance for the delivery of specific projects commissioned by DHSC to modernise DHSC and core digital and technology services.
- Ensuring proposed solutions meet business objectives and requirements; and are aligned with strategic and security frameworks.
- Developing and assessing technical options, including identification of benefits, disadvantages, dependencies and constraints.
- Acting as design authority during project engagements and in prospective, information gathering and scene setting meetings with colleagues in DHSC and with other government departments.
- Engaging with and managing 3rd party supplier contributions to strategy and delivery.
- Liaising with business engagement colleagues to interpret user needs for new and existing services.
- Supporting secure by design principles, engaging with cyber security and information governance colleagues.
- Presenting solutions to project and programme boards and other stakeholders.
- Reviewing all new work requests and proposals against the current product set, the strategic roadmap, and business case objectives.
- Leading proof of concept work.
- Supporting M365 Message Centre notification management as well as change advisory board impact assessment.
- Maintaining currency with technical solutions and emerging trends and issues, align with Government best practice, policy, standards, toolkits and relevant legislation.