Solutions Architect

at  MI6 Secret Intelligence Service

JOB SUMMARY

Flexible Working: We support full-time, part time, compressed, and flexible hours. We’re committed to offering remote working across our organisation, however, our ability to do this is dependent on role requirements and business needs.

ABOUT US

We’re MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Our mission is to protect the security and economic wellbeing of the UK from overseas threats such as regional instability, terrorism, and cyber-attacks. Working across the globe and in close partnership with MI5 and GCHQ, we help the Government to counter these threats through the provision of secret intelligence. A role in MI6 will see you providing vital support to this work, within a supportive and encouraging environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Architecture and technology are core to MI6 successful operations and intelligence delivery. There is a constant need to develop and maintain capabilities that provide us with mission advantage in a rapidly changing, technology and data driven world. So, we use agile and lean methodologies to innovate, deliver and upgrade products. Whether you work on data analytics, knowledge systems, communications or technical operations capabilities, the nature of our work presents unique and fascinating architecture challenges, the likes of which you will never have seen before.
We build products that provide capability across MI6. Our multi-disciplinary teams are made up of architects & engineers who work alongside product owners, business analysts and delivery colleagues to ensure MI6 gets what it needs by balancing tactical and strategic goals and objectives. And as a Solution Architect, you’ll lead the design and systems engineering approach for a specific area of our organisation, creating new products and working to continually improve the capabilities of our existing ones.
As a Solutions Architect you’ll be part of a community responsible for design authority. You’ll collaborate with the Product Manager and Business Lead to deliver a balanced plan that considers UX, cost, time, and quality. And you’ll be delivering the architecture and systems engineering elements of the product plan throughout its whole life cycle.

This will include:

• Understanding the problem and shaping the solution
• Tailoring the systems engineering and architecture processes to address product risks.
• Developing, maintaining, and communicating the vision, architecture and technology roadmap for the product
• Developing high-level designs, solution outlines, and key design decisions
• Managing the technology risk and design as the product evolves
• Supporting integration with other products and release to service.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

Open to UK nationals only.

MI6 are proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP’s Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people. Being Disability Confident, we aim to offer a person-to-person interview to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role. This is our ‘Offer of Interview’ (OOI). To secure an interview for this vacancy, the essential criteria (in order of application process) are:

• Demonstrate experience working in architecture or systems engineering functions – measured at application sift.
• Motivation for applying to work at the organisation and the role – assessed at sift.
• Demonstrate an applied level of experience developing technology portfolios and/or playing a major role in digital transformation programme delivery – measured at application sift