About the position
The Ministry of Defence is seeking a dedicated individual for the role of Senior Technical Architect within the Defence Business Services (DBS) Automation Garage. This position involves providing technical leadership and architectural design for digital services, working collaboratively in agile scrum teams to ensure the appropriate infrastructure is specified for the smooth running of the Automation Garage teams and services. The role is crucial in solving architectural problems, advising on changes to the MOD D2S platform, and ensuring compliance with the GDS Service Standard. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall solution design for Automation Garage processes, ensuring they meet both customer business and operational requirements.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Automation Garage teams to solve architectural problems and advise on changes required to the MOD D2S platform, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), or MS Power Platform.
- Create and maintain detailed solution documents to support a wide range of applications, infrastructure, data, security, integration, and operations.
- Evolve and define governance, collaborating and supporting other staff in wider governance.
- Fulfil the role of lead technical architect at GDS assessments, demonstrating compliance with the GDS Service Standard.
- Work with stakeholders to solve complex technical problems across internal and external platforms.
- Ensure presented use cases are suitable for implementation.
- Understand the GDS Service Standard and design patterns to ensure services meet them.
- Identify and implement upgrade and patching requirements for applications and databases.
- Oversee investigation and analysis of incidents and process exceptions.
- Advise on test strategy including Pen Testing, Performance Testing, and Accessibility Audits.
- Identify key project risks and issues and propose mitigating actions.
Requirements
- Experience in creating technical design documents.
- Experience in network designs and providing advice in this area.
- Experience in virtualization and providing guidance in this area.
- Experience in Active Directory and Database interactions.
- Ability to work as part of a small agile team and across multiple teams.
- Attention to detail.
- Proven ability to communicate both written and verbally.
- Highly motivated and resilient.
- Ability to communicate technical issues to a non-technical audience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in PHP and Javascript application design.
- Experience in Blue Prism or another RPA tool.
- Experience in cloud architecture.
- Knowledge of packaging, analytics/reporting solutions, and CITRIX hosting.
- Experience of GDS projects.
Benefits
- Flexible working options Monday-Friday.
- 25 days paid annual leave rising to 30 days upon completion of 5 years' service.
- Hybrid working where role permits.
- Opportunity for Reward & Recognition of £250-£5000 per year.
- Family friendly policies including parental leave and adoption leave.
- Learning and development tailored to your role.
- Professional and personal development of skills.
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- Minimum of 15 days special leave for volunteer reserve commitments.
- Special paid leave to volunteer up to 6 days per year.
- Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
