Lead Network Domain Architect

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Do you have strong technical Network design knowledge and experience?
Do you like to engage with a variety of architects and technical leads working on a wide range of different solutions?
Can you provide useful, actionable input and advice to teams building or buying network solutions and technologies?
Are you good at engaging with senior influential architecture and product stakeholders?
As the Lead Domain Architect for Networks in DWP Digital, you will lead, manage and deliver aspects of this domain’s architecture activities to meet customer needs.
You will develop strategies, blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns for DWP networks.
You will share your Networks domain knowledge and experience to drive IT strategy, including definition of the tools and techniques most appropriate for particular environments.
You will be part of a small core team of Domain Architects helping to define, and ensure conformance to strategy of, DWP Digital solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As the Lead Domain Architect for Networks in DWP Digital, you will lead, manage and deliver aspects of this domain’s architecture activities to meet customer needs.

The successful candidate for this role will:

• Identify, capture, share and refine reference patterns and architectures, and technology choices, to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Govern solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
• Support the delivery of a Networks technology roadmap.
• Research, understand and communicate network domain-related IT industry trends - emergence of new technology challenges and capabilities.
• Provide expert advice to Solution Architects within Delivery project teams on the network design elements of their solutions.
• Consult a wide range of stakeholders, including Solution Architects, to create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases.
• Work closely with projects to ensure their design artefacts are at the appropriate standard for the Design Authority and ensure Network Design patterns are correctly referenced.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Governance & Assurance
• Relationship Management

Benefits

• An employer pension contribution of up to 28.98% For further information please click here.
• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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TYPE OF ROLE

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

The successful candidate for this role will:

• Identify, capture, share and refine reference patterns and architectures, and technology choices, to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Govern solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
• Support the delivery of a Networks technology roadmap.
• Research, understand and communicate network domain-related IT industry trends - emergence of new technology challenges and capabilities.
• Provide expert advice to Solution Architects within Delivery project teams on the network design elements of their solutions.
• Consult a wide range of stakeholders, including Solution Architects, to create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases.
• Work closely with projects to ensure their design artefacts are at the appropriate standard for the Design Authority and ensure Network Design patterns are correctly referenced