HM Revenue & Customs
Lead Solutions Architect
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Lead Solution Architect
We are looking for technical leaders who can engage colleagues at all levels to influence better business outcomes, who have the right skills, behaviours and mindset.
Salary: £71,725 - £87,612 (You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills assessment, with a value of up to £15,000).
Locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Telford, Worthing.
You will:
- Have a fascination in how tech is evolving and can use that to solve real world problems.
- Influence our most senior stakeholders across HMRC to deliver transformational change, through creating IT solution architecture, articulating those designs to the business, and driving delivery with our teams.
- Enjoy being a part of building out technology projects that deliver results, recognising technology supports the necessary business and culture change.
- Support and influence transformational change through designing and delivering solutions.
- Be able to work collaboratively as part of a larger team to drive change across the organisation.
- Be Innovative – creating options and demonstrating how technology could lead to better business outcomes.
- Own a technology or business domain.
- Understand and present the design of the domain and articulate the changes and impact on the domain and the wider business.
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Job description
Lead Solution Architects in HMRC take an agile approach to solving problems from problem-shaping through design to delivery, creating Proof of Concepts, prototypes and technical or functional spikes to bring ideas to life, and de-risk delivery.
We are looking for someone who can show that they can grow into:
- Understanding business strategies and operations and have a track record of developing close trusted relationships based on your delivery record.
- Deliver Solutions at a fast pace to meet ministerial imperative deadlines.
- Collaboratively solve business problems – working with colleagues to identify root causes and create pragmatic IT solutions.
- Pick up new technologies quickly - you’re able to understand their strengths and weaknesses, where necessary testing their potential to solve the problem in hand.
- Use your domain knowledge to accelerate delivery and ensure best practice.
- Drive change at pace because it is important to you, but you also excel in recognising and managing risks.
Person specification
Your responsibilities in this role will include:
- Leading a team of architects and setting direction for the team.
- Part of the Solution, Design and Architecture Senior Leadership team.
- Challenging the status quo, and delivering value through improved, coherent, architecture.
- Accountable for working with Enterprise Architecture and colleagues and creating solutions that align to HMRC’s IT Strategy and deliver business outcomes.
- Work with Delivery Teams and partners to ensure the Solution Design is delivered and implemented.
- Managing major programme Architecture in terms of both size and complexity, keeping programmes aligned with the business and technical strategies.
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This role will require travel and overnight stays.
Essential Criteria:
- Work in an area that must develop solutions at pace for legislative changes working on multiple projects.
- Provide high level impacts for Invest to Raise Measures as well as Spending Review Portfolio level designs.
- You can bridge the gap to business strategy for non-technical senior stakeholders, handling diverse stakeholders across all levels within the organisation.
- Strong inter-personal skills with an ability to translate between business and technology.
- You are a collaborative problem solver – working with colleagues to identify root causes allowing you to create and deliver pragmatic IT solutions.
- You have designed customer facing and/or internal IT solution designs that link to and deliver tangible benefits.
- Facilitating the relationships with indirect stakeholders.
- You can pick up new technologies and architecture concepts and styles quickly, understand their strengths and weaknesses and apply that learning.
- You can work at pace, but you also excel in managing architectural risk.
Desirable Criteria:
- Possess or working toward TOGAF, BCS or CITP qualifications.
Please apply by following the link.
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