Senior Technical Architect

Job Description

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a Senior Technical Architect (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract based Hybrid position with regular visits to London and/or Sheffield.

Note: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, (as a minimum you will need to eligible for SC)

This role is part of a cross-government initiative to create a new system for managing MAPPA (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement) nominals. The project is run from the Home Office, and the MOJ (HMPPS) are both co-funding and providing important integrations into the systems where Prisons and Probation data are managed.

The role will initially work closely with a Principal Technical Architect, and will help form a team around the delivery of APIs.

Key Responsibilities

*Work with the Home Office MAPPS team to provide a critical friend on technical architecture designs and decisions

*Manage the requirements from the MAPPS projects that relate to HMPPS data

*Using the requirements from MAPPS, continue the design of the HMPPS Integration API so that it both meets the MAPPS needs but also aligns with the ongoing HMPPS Digital technical strategy

*Work with Service Owners and others to help bring on board a delivery team related to this work

*Deputise for Principal Technical Architect on calls related to MAPPS

*Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge

*Guide technical teams, influence technical choices and seek out opportunities for digital transformation

*Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for the agency

*Align your team's work with departmental and wider government technology strategy

*Support hiring, taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers

Tech Stack

*Programming languages such as TypeScript/Node, Kotlin/Java.

*AWS and/or Azure using infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation

*Container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.

*Public GitHub repositories for our work

*Modern development practices such as domain-driven design, test-driven development, continuous integration and continuous delivery

*Mac laptops

*Other tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, AppInsights, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and more

Skills & experience required

*Key: API development/management

*Key: working across multiple organisations

*Key: great communication skills

*Experience in a technical/solution architecture role and can act as a recognised technical expert to guide, critique and support teams in the delivery of outcomes

*Practical working knowledge of modern cloud-first architectures, and how to build applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer

*Experience of devising software architecture for multitier web solutions which typically include frontend and/or backend microservices, event-driven processing, API provision/consumption, databases, and pub/sub patterns.

*Able to identify and mitigate security risks when designing and operating in a public cloud environment

*Experience of architecting digital services that align to a wider technical strategy that meets business needs

*Experience of making and guiding effective technical choices by understanding the trends and practices within the broader organisation

*Capable of looking for deeper underlying problems and opportunities

*Translates technical concepts between multidisciplinary teams and other stakeholders so they are understood by all. Expert at mediating and mending relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders

*Can act decisively and make bold, unbiased decisions. Able to clearly communicate the purpose and reasons for recommendations and decisions.

*Can consult with others where necessary to ensure decisions meet the diverse needs of the end users. Clearly recommend the best option articulating risks and impacts

*Ensure plans and activities in your area of work reflect wider strategic priorities and communicate effectively with senior leaders to influence future strategies

*Technical leadership of teams. You have demonstrable experience of leading technical teams in the successful delivery of complex outcomes. You can work across disciplines and are able to engage with a wide range of technical professions

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.