Senior Solution Architect
Our team of Senior Solutions Architects are the champions of innovation, tackling complex challenges that directly impact society's most vulnerable. Join us in shaping the future of digital services at DWP, where your expertise will drive meaningful change and empower our users like never before.
Pay £52,412 to £70,000, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions worth over £17,000. Hybrid working, and great work life balance. Includes flexi-time with up 3 extra flex-days off a month.
Location
Your choice of Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle. Hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users.
We're transforming mission-critical payment services, and delivering £250 billion payments per year to the most vulnerable people in society.
Our DWP Digital teams are using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable, and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works, how people interact with us, and we make payments.
We are looking for motivated, purpose-driven Solutions Architects like you to take on the challenge of solving complex problems that will improve outcomes for the most vulnerable citizens in our society.
Designing World-Class Products
You'll be working with our Benefits Payments Systems team.
The BPS project delivers essential services to DWP customers. It's a big ticket. The systems we work on pay £1.4 billion in working age benefits, disability benefits, and pension benefits each year.
As part of a small team of Architects, you'll collaborate closely with Testers, Engineers, Project Managers, and a larger BPS team comprising over 200 members, improving payments on major benefits like Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
As Senior Solution Architect, we'll look to your expertise to deliver value-for-money designs, support technical debt reduction for our re-platformed legacy benefit payment services, and the evolution of our services.
There is complexity, and unique problems to solve. These services have recently been remediated from a Cobol VME platform to modernised infrastructure supporting MicroFocus Cobol based applications on a Linux Platform.
You'll need to be a good, persuasive communicator - making the complex simple to understand.
You'll work on product roadmaps and represent product designs at DWP governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs
Your Essential Skills:
- Shaping and supporting the delivery of large scale, enterprise, business critical services
- Integration architecture, frameworks, technologies, tools and best practice
- Event-based API-driven architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards
- Agile delivery methodologies and best practice
- Presenting to technical governance forums.
Details. Wages. Perks.
In return for your skills, we pay £52,412 - £70,000 per annum.
You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions to 28.97% - that could be worth over £18,000 in your pension pot each year.
Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
- Flexible working including flexible hours and family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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