Senior Technical Architect (Software)

What We Offer

At HMLR, we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We value different perspectives and recognise that diverse teams deliver better outcomes. We support flexible working and encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, communities and experiences.

By joining us, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of public services, work on meaningful and challenging programmes, and develop your career within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Person Specification

To be successful in this role, you will be required to demonstrate the following criteria throughout the recruitment process.

Essential Technical Skills And Qualifications:

Architect for the whole context

You Can:

• align your work with the work being done by other architects and technical professionals
• track emerging issues, strategies, roadmaps, patterns and technologies over time to assess opportunities and risks to your work
• identify how other teams contribute to delivering outcomes through change

Architecture communication

You Can:

• lead the communication of complicated, complex or risky architecture topics with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• communicate with senior stakeholders across your organisation
• adapt your message and communication techniques to your audience
• advocate on behalf of a team to other stakeholders
• manage stakeholder expectations effectively

Community collaboration

You Can:

• work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others
• adapt feedback to ensure it’s effective and lasting
• use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them
• identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses

Making architectural decisions

You Can:

• work with others to make architectural design decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity
• identify and address architectural risks relevant to your team or domain, for example, business, data, or security
• engage with architectural governance and assurance to effectively manage decisions and risks, with support

Strategy design

You Can:

• support the development of a strategy or vision that aligns with organisational objectives
• challenge requirements and assumptions, and identify opportunities to develop strategy
• support the implementation of a strategy or vision, for example, by using a roadmap or plan
• use architectural principles, patterns, and constraints when appropriate

Technical design throughout the life cycle

You Can:

• create technical designs characterised by medium risk, impact, and complexity
• maintain appropriate quality and architectural coherence of a technical design in response to change
• use feedback to optimise and refine technical designs throughout the life cycle

Note: These skills are based upon the expected skills for a Senior Technical Architect role as defined on Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

Desirable Technical Skills And Qualifications:

There are no essential qualifications required, but being able to evidence having been trained, used or certified in some of the following will be beneficial:

• AWS/Azure cloud provider training programs.
• Agile /Scrum certification.
• Demonstrable use of using industry standard design patterns as part of your solutions (MVC, Microservices, Pub Sub etc.)
• Architecture Frameworks e.g. TOGAF, Zachman etc
• Modelling techniques UML, SYSML etc.
• DevOps Training.
• Wide range of experience of technology domains including
  • Engineering and software architecture design
  • Technology architecture, infrastructure, cloud platforms
  • IT Security architecture: best practice, patterns and standards

Our Existing Products And Technologies Include:

• AWS, Azure, OpenShift, IBM Mainframe, Nutanix, Linux, Windows, Postgres, DB2, Oracle, Fusion, MS Dynamics, RabbitMQ, Python, Java, Talend, O365

Some of this list would be expected to be in your kitbag of experience.

Essential Experience:

• Using and understanding of a broad range of technologies, tools and processes.
• Proactively keeping abreast of upcoming technologies and changes in the industry.
• Leading and influencing diverse groups to get to agreement on a technical solution.
• Identifying and managing change and its impact on people, process, technology and information.
• Understanding technology and the needs of stakeholders and then using this knowledge to deliver good architectural designs.
• Showing where you have solved complex problems by managing levels of risk and complexity.
• Structured, logical decomposition of problems using appropriate modelling techniques and languages.
• Taking accountability for end-to-end solutions from initiation to initial delivery and its ongoing lifecycle in line with a strategy.
• Delivering compliance in line with security requirements, legal or legislative responsibilities.
• Supporting or developing technical strategies, principles, patterns and roadmaps.

Desirable Experience:

• Previous Public Sector experience and an understanding of Central Government IT related initiatives, policies and standards
• Experience of the competitive IT procurement life cycle; specifically, solution specification and evaluation criteria
• Experience of building, maintaining and managing relationships with vendors
• Previous Software development experience
• 3rd party software integration.
• Planning for decommissioning, maintainability and scalability.
• Where you have collaborated with multiple teams to deliver the required outcome.

Please note that desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of high application numbers and/or as a tiebreaker.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

Alongside your salary of £57,400, HM Land Registry contributes £16,628 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way. We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes. We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

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