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Job Summary
Do you want work collaboratively designing modern IT architecture for some of the largest digital transformations in Europe?
The scale of what they do is extraordinary, and their purpose is unique. You will join their community of Integration Architects across DWP Digital.
DWP Digital are delivering transformational integration solutions to enable and drive an enterprise strategy based on reuse of common IT capabilities, central to which are an API economy and an event-driven architecture.
As a Lead Integration Architect, you will be responsible for the technical design of the DWP API, Events and File Transfer Services, and by applying your technical speciality in these areas making them a reality. You will lead on the assurance of integration solutions, and work with Integration Team leads, service owners and domain architects across DWP on the strategic enablement of DWP wide digital objectives.
You will be a key member of the Integration leadership team providing vision, motivation and a collaborative influence throughout the wider team.
There is barely a project in DWP that does not need integration services, so the team are involved in almost everything that DWP Digital does. They also provide integration services to numerous other government projects and departments.
Job description
As a Lead Integration Architect, you will:
• Help evolve the overall DWP Digital integration strategy in collaboration with the DWP Domain Architects and other senior stakeholders.
• Design integration solutions (products and services) to meet user needs and align with DWP technical strategy and standards.
• Provide a consistent set of solution views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
• Communicate integration solutions making the complex simple to understand.
• Support delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.
Responsibilities:
Your roles and responsibilities will include, but are not restricted to the following:
• Develop strategic product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture and decision making, to gain agreement and approval.
• Lead, plan and support the delivery of the technical and architecture design elements of DWP integration services.
• Work with solution architects, engineering teams, and other Digital stakeholders to create value for money solution designs.
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of integration solution designs to the DWP Digital Blueprint, Security, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmap standards.
• Identify, capture, share, iterate, and implement integration architecture patterns.
• Drive eradication of technical debt, to reduce the ongoing cost of DWP IT services.
• Manage a small team of Integration Architects and the associated architecture design backlog.
Person specification
When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
• API and event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
• Architecting events based architectures across multiple data-centres and public clouds.
• API gateway and micro-gateway patterns and capabilities such as traffic control, security, logging, monitoring and authentication e.g. Kong API Gateway.
• Agile / DevOps delivery methodologies and best practice.
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practice.
• Presenting to technical governance forums.
Behaviors
We'll assess you against these behaviors during the selection process:
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Benefits
• An employer pension contribution of up to 28.97% 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.
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Location
Applicants should apply for suitable posts where they can travel to and from their home office location daily within a reasonable time.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed
Hybrid Working
This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
HASSRA
DWP colleagues will have the opportunity to join HASSRA, a vibrant and successful organisation that provides a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). It also has an important part to play in helping them achieve a healthy work-life balance and wellbeing in the workplace.
