Digital Architect

Job description

·  Job Description:

As a technical architect, you’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation activities for our clients. You’ll have a vision your projects and communicate this to developers and non-developers alike. You’ll ensure a project’s overall technical design meets 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 multi-disciplinary teams.

ROLE:

·  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 infrastructure is 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 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 web development community, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing your experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences
·  enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices
·  mentor developers, setting standards and ensuring delivery targets are met
·  advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog
·  form relationships with external suppliers
·  help enable the reuse of patterns, tools, and components across the whole government service landscape

ESSENTIAL SKILLS :

·  5+ years experience leading technical teams and delivering user-focused services
·  Creating information architectures for websites and applications
·  Leading the design and implementation of Drupal-based websites and applications that integrate with enterprise back-end applications (or similar CMS)
·  Building custom CMS modules
·  Designing and building web-based user interfaces
·  strong software development and application architecture experience, with good knowledge of open source technologies, testing and at least one programming language
·  experience of mobile, cloud and web technologies
·  ability to adapt quickly to new technologies
·  experience scaling online services
·  awareness of emerging security issues
·  ability to read and understand solution design documentation
·  understanding of how to prioritise work in a fast, customer-centric environment
·  understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and dev-ops cultures
·  understanding of how to influence senior management and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences

DESIRABLE SKILLS :

·  a view of technology as an enabler of great digital services
·  an eagerness to influence how digital services are delivered for clients
·  stay abreast of legislative changes i.e. GDPR, and the impact on delivery
·  experience designing and implementing secure systems
·  experience mentoring technical staff and managing stakeholders
·  experience working in a dynamic organisation with rapidly expanding users and changing requirements
·  interest in forming best practices, standards and policies
·  experience initiating projects, participating in workshops to gather user needs and building prototypes
·  a willingness to travel to client locations
·  worked in an Agile development environment