Employer: Inspire People
Salary: £51,997 – £75,649 per annum
Date Added: 02/01/2024
Would you like the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of cloud-first technologies and contribute to the development and support of new services? The DVLA and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Lead Technical Architect with experience in designing and building cloud-native software and architecture governance. £51,997 – £75,649 (includes a Digitech Allowance of up to £15,000) plus excellent Civil Service benefits and 27% pension. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea, a great place to work, live and play, with a healthy work-life balance on how and where you work.
DVLA are at the forefront of digital within government, providing new and improved services that are reliable, easy to use and offer value for money for customers. With over 49 million driver records and over 40 million vehicle records, the opportunity to work at this scale is unrivalled across the region. DVLA’s services generate billions in revenue and make a difference to the lives of 9 out of 10 households in the UK.
Closing date for applications is 11:55pm on Sunday 21st January 2024.
Job description
DVLA are looking for a Lead Technical Architect to join their dynamic and innovative workforce at an exciting and challenging time. The individual will need to demonstrate the appetite and commitment to help drive the organisation through an exciting and significant transformation programme.
If you would like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA, we are organising a Teams familiarisation session for this role where you can virtually ‘meet the team’ on 18th January and learn about the role.
Link to book on: https://dvlaitsrecruitment/t-xmrpgxn
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions.
- Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government.
- Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment.
- Provide mentoring within teams.
- Provide leadership to other architects.
Skills and experience
You will have an Architectural / Engineering background having worked in an architect or engineering lead role delivering enterprise and cloud-based software systems.
- Knowledge of designing / building cloud native software on a platform such as AWS
- Experience with data security principles and systems designed to protect sensitive data
- Desire to create and maintain solution designs in an iterative and collaborative manner
- Ability to think strategically about business, product and technical challenges
- Excellent technical skills with the experience to be held accountable for technical aspects of delivering complex solutions, including end-to-end solution design, delivery governance, assurance and support for Engineers and Delivery Managers
- Great interpersonal skills allowing you to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike
- You will be able to drive discussions with senior leaders across the agency as well as having the technical background that will enable you to easily interact and give guidance to software developers, testers and engineers
Benefits
In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, long-term career progression plus the following benefits:
- Salary of £52,997 to £75,649 (including allowances) dependent on technical skills as assessed at Interview.
- Best-in-class learning and development tailored to your role.
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
- Generous employer pension contribution of at least 26.6%
- A great work-life balance
- 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year (up to 30)
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
- Digital Communities
- On-site gym plus personal training available
- On-site nursery, restaurants, and coffee bar
- Range of staff groups to support all our colleagues.
- Free parking.
Location
This role will be based in Swansea, and we will be operating a hybrid working model that allows you to work between home and on-site giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work, subject to business needs and this also allows for ongoing support, development, and collaboration with colleagues.
Therefore, the expectation is that you will spend a minimum of 60% of your working time based at your principal workplace (DVLA). We would encourage you to discuss the working arrangements for this role with us during the recruitment process.
Additional Information
DVLA interviews will take place from 12th February 2024. Please note that these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.
This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
Please take note that DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
If you are a Solutions Architect or a Lead Engineer with the essential skills looking to develop your scope and work with the latest technologies on large-scale software delivery projects, then contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People, or apply today.
Application Deadline: 13/02/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Submitted Applications: 0