Event Driven Solution Architect

at  The Pensions Regulator

ABOUT US

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

ROLE

Our Digital team is undergoing transformation turning our existing capabilities into a modern, and high-performing digital function with agility, user-centricity and innovation embedded throughout. Our vision is to be a catalyst for pensions innovation and regulatory effectiveness. Using digital, data, and technology to revolutionise pension regulation, making it more efficient, secure, transparent, and customer-centred.
We’re looking for a Solution Architect to join our Digital team and drive and deliver strategic cloud architecting and implementation, including Microsoft products on our Microsoft Azure platform. They will need to enable and guide the Technology design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs focused around our Regulatory Systems.
This is a great opportunity for an Architect looking to be the leader in their space. We will also provide you with support and further training to keep you up to date with the newest technologies to develop your skills further.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will:

• help develop the Roadmap for the development of Event Driven solutions in our Microsoft Azure tenancies, guiding the projects that deliver value and excellence to our business
• work with Business, Data and other Solution Architects on resolving the key issues we face in a cost effective and practical manner, architecting solutions (using Microsoft and third party solutions) aligned to the corporate strategy for TPR
• provide technical leadership to solutions, infrastructure and development teams and set example through development, technical design sessions and quality assurance activities
• support developing Technology solutions to solve business problems and achieve business objectives
• contribute towards TPR’s Technology and Data strategy using ‘Cloud First’
• continuously improve methodologies, processes and standards including ‘best practice’ and policies relating to TPR’s solutions and their development

To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 199827 along with:

• a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
• a copy of your CV
• details of your notice perio