Lead Solution Architect

Looking to lead on the design of IT solutions that will support millions of customers and improve the experience of government services for UK citizens? DWP Digital have a Lead Solution Architect vacancy in Children and Families, managing the design, development, delivery and maintenance of IT products and services across the Children and Families area, working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to create value-for-money solution designs that meet user needs. The successful candidate will: Help to lead and support the community to build high quality products and services. Provide architecture coaching and mentoring for other solution architects. Understand a broad range of technical solutions ranging from niche legacy systems to green field digital solutions that will be used across the enterprise. Bring a breadth of understanding across a range of technical specialisms and depth of experience in a number of specialisms. Coach and mentor other architects, managing a small team of solution architects, and the associated architecture design backlog. Contribute to the inclusive culture across Children and Families, as part of the area's leadership team. Work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders (engineers, policy, legal, other Digital colleagues including cross-government if necessary) to create value-for-money solution designs that meet user needs. Ensure that architecture design artefacts are produced to agreed quality and timescales and presented effectively at governance forums. Own the product architecture, develop product roadmaps, and represent product designs at governance forums, providing clear communication of architecture design and decision making, in order to gain approval to proceed with designs. Ensure architecture best practice and reference architectures are shared across DWP Digital, and cross-government where appropriate. Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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