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Job summary
Do you want to develop blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns for data?
Do you want to manage and deliver aspects of Data domain architecture activities to meet customer needs?
Do you want to be part of a small core team of architects ensuring conformance of some of the largest digital transformations in Europe to agreed architecture policies, principles, and patterns?
If so, we have an opportunity as a Senior Domain Architect, where you will share your Data domain knowledge and experience to drive IT strategy, including definition of the tools and techniques most appropriate for the environment.
DWP maintain and modernise services that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives.
The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique.
Job description
The successful candidate will:
- Deliver and promote architecture patterns and solutions for the data domain.
- Govern solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
- Support the delivery of a data technology roadmap.
- Understand industry trends, and research, in the data domain.
- Support Solution Architects within Delivery project teams on data design elements of solutions.
- Support the definition of the strategic IT data architecture.
Person specification
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact isaac.morrison@dwp.gov.uk.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Governance and Assurance
- Relationship Management
Benefits
- An employer pension contribution of up to 27% 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: Womens 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.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £52,412 to £70,000.
The maximum salary for the grade is £63,517, however a Digital Allowance of up to £6,483 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Stage 1: Application
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete:
1. A completed Personal Details application form.
2. A curriculum vitae including education, professional qualifications and full employment history, giving details of key achievements.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form
When uploading your CV, do not include personal information or links to any webpages or profiles that identifies you. This means we can recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity. Take out references to your name/title, educational institutions, age, sex, email address, postal address, telephone number or nationality/immigration status.
When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Governing architecture design of business-critical IT projects/services in a large, complex UK central government or private sector organisation.
- Data strategies, blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns.
- Conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling and design.
- Database design / modelling, technologies, design patterns, tools, and best practice (including RDBMS, NoSQL and Open Source).
- Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, and best practice.
When giving details of your redacted CV, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign.
Important information
Please attach your redacted CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or word format.
If your CV contains any personal details your application may be withdrawn.
Stage 2: Interview
If youre successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours and Technical Skills:
Behaviours
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Technical Skills
Governance and Assurance
Relationship Management
You will be asked to do a short (maximum 10 minutes) presentation on an architecture design or pattern you have delivered, explaining the key architecture decisions you made, and what artefacts you prepared to communicate and govern the use of these patterns.
The presentation must be pre-prepared and submitted prior to interview.
Interviews will take place from early January 2024.
Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed.
Further Information
https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/
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The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.
Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.
For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit page
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Isaac Morrison
- Email : isaac.morrison@dwp.gov.uk
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- Email : digitalrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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