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A small company with a big reach, we offer a range of benefits including flexible working, a 9-day fortnight scheme, a performance-related variable pay bonus, a generous pension scheme and great opportunities for development. We care for colleagues, respect one another, invest in our people and manage talent effectively. We are currently working in a hybrid way with colleagues expected to work at their chosen office location for 40% of their working month. Reporting into the Chief Technology Officer, the role will ensure the Business has the appropriate technical and business design provision and capability to ensure Business Transformation Programme and wider Business goals can be met. Ensure the solutions being designed meet the business requirements by delivering the desired outcomes, target architecture and industry standards . Job description Full details of the key responsibilities can be found on the attached role profile on Civil Service Jobs.

We’re recruiting for a Senior Technical Architect here at , to be part of our warm and collaborative This role aligns against from the Government Digital and Data Framework Our Senior Technical Architects are responsible for assuring, designing, and delivering digital services. You will be working with developers, Site Reliability Engineers and security experts, user researchers, product managers, designers, delivery managers, and content specialists who share a vision for improving government through smarter use of technology. You will collaborate to develop our strategy, connect people and build trust with clear communication, and provide empathetic technical leadership across diverse product teams. Our Senior Technical Architects will work to understand our technology, our business, and our people (colleagues, stakeholders, and users of our services), and to create an ambitious and pragmatic vision for our teams, using their technical expertise to bring our challenges and opportunities into focus alongside the views of other professions in our leadership team. A Senior Technical Architect can see the big picture, understanding our complex technology landscape, and can clearly and effectively communicate that big picture by building trust, developing great relationships, and empathising with others. They provide mentoring and support to other architects and engineering leadership in their service area, and they have a good understanding of a broad range of technologies, with experience in both software engineering and commercial enterprise, as well as providing effective governance, both within our organisation, and across our suppliers. As a Senior Technical Architect, your days will be varied. For example, you might be creating diagrams and data flows for replacing a legacy service; working directly with developers to ensure their services are robust and secure; supporting a new delivery manager to introduce or improve ways of working; or liaising with engineering leadership to develop guardrails and patterns for use across the department. We are looking for people who will encourage open discussion and build the architecture community within the Ministry of Justice, particularly within His Majesty's Prisons and Probation Service Digital department and Office of the CTO. You should have a mindset for growth and learning, constantly looking for emerging technologies, tools and good practice. We are a flexible organisation, and we understand that people can't always work 5 days a week or might have responsibilities that sometimes clash with standard office hours. We work as flexibly as we can, including offering part time hours, so if in doubt please do get in touch. If you're the right candidate we will do our best to work around you. To help picture your life at please take a look at our and our Key Responsibilities: Collaborate with the Lead Technical Architect to refine and progress technical vision for HMPPS Digital, develop our strategy and be accountable for our technology estate. Communicate about our technology across teams and professions, both within our Digital unit and across all parts of the Ministry of Justice; seeing the big picture and bringing it to all stakeholders. Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing both technical and non-technical direction and challenge, as well as pragmatic compromise to deliver value across your teams and the service area. Create structured analysis of technical concepts, providing insight for multi-disciplinary decision-making, whilst seeking opportunities to collaborate and develop patterns and guidelines for the Digital Unit. Guide and influence choices to align with strategy, and seek out opportunities for digital transformation, helping all understand the value of technical decisions. Engage with our portfolio, assurance, risk management, cyber, and information assurance leadership to ensure priorities, such as Secure by Design, are represented alongside those of the business and other digital teams. Advocate for a diverse, inclusive culture across the engineering community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance, including being a champion for increasing women and minorities in our workforce. Mentor, coach, line-manage, and help recruit more great technical architects and engineering leadership. If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply! Our Tech Stack This is our tech, both strategic and legacy. You don’t need to have experience with all of these, but we hope you see some familiar things. Modern strategic software built in Java/Kotlin, Typescript and Python Public for our work Resilient infrastructure in the cloud (primarily AWS), containerisation and Kubernetes, using infrastructure as code (IaC) and platforms as a service (PaaS) Progressive software development practices such as Domain-Driven Design (DDD), test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) A new multi-tier architecture, creating central data and business logic platforms to accelerate our product development and support our growing artificial intelligence product suite. 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We are looking for experienced Senior Technical Architects who are confident working on products and services in a complex digital environment, where you’ll be supporting major initiatives within DWP Digital. You will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders across DWP Digital to support the delivery of solutions, creating options and recommendations, and providing expert advice to drive technology choices. The roles will include the design, oversight and architecture governance of IT solutions that support DWP customers. This is an exciting time to join us. You’ll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services that work for everyone. A Senior Technical Architect works with multiple projects or teams on problems that require broad architectural thinking. At this role level, you will: Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions. Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government. Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment Provide mentoring within teams.

Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Delivery: Own the architecture and delivery of shared platform components (APIs, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, shared services) and production environments that enable high-quality digital services. Ensure platforms are highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant , supporting 24/7 operations and rapid recovery in the event of failure. As the range of products and platforms grows, the need for robust, high-performance, and cost-effective shared solutions for support, live monitoring, incident management, and continuous improvement of services will become increasingly critical. Drive adoption of modern engineering practices , including containerisation, microservices, and automated observability. Cyber Security: Define and implement the cyber security strategy for GDS platforms, embedding zero-trust principles and advanced threat detection. Ensure compliance with NCSC guidance, ISO standards, and relevant government security frameworks. Lead on secure-by-design architecture , encryption standards, and identity management. Critical Infrastructure Resilience: Establish and mature robust live service operations , including real-time monitoring, automated alerting, and incident response protocols. Build resilience into every layer of the stack, from network to application, ensuring continuity of service under extreme load or attack scenarios. Oversee disaster recovery planning and execution for nation-scale systems. Technical Governance and Roadmap: Own the technical roadmap for platform and infrastructure services, ensuring alignment with government priorities and emerging technologies. Set and enforce engineering standards for scalability, interoperability, and cost-efficiency. Team Leadership: Lead multidisciplinary teams of engineers, architects, and cyber specialists. Foster a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability , with a strong focus on continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. Stakeholder Engagement: Work with senior leaders across government and industry to ensure platforms meet user needs and support transformation goals. Represent GDS in cross-government forums on cyber security, resilience, and digital infrastructure.

As a Senior Technical Architect, your main responsibilities will include: Defining, maintaining, and championing the technical strategy for a service or group of services - keeping up to date with the latest technologies and trends, whilst delivering working software early and often. Leading technical specialists in multiple projects and services, on problems that require broad architectural thinking. Defining how to build and operate user-centred, open-source web systems in an agile environment, to serve a variety of citizen and government needs. Being responsible for the technical design and development of services in your programme, including how they interact with their surroundings, and how they evolve over time. Challenging entrenched practices and influencing decision-makers, looking for deeper underlying problems to solve, and larger opportunities for digital transformation. Communicating the vision for government services to developers and non-developers alike, working in multi-disciplinary teams that bring policy and delivery together. Playing an active role in the DfE architecture community, where you will share knowledge of tools and techniques, as well as joining related communities of practice and events where appropriate, such as product, user research, design, platforms, security, etc. Helping to build a diverse, inclusive culture across the technical architecture community. Working with colleagues and peers on profession-based activities (and cross-profession), such as defining standards and guidance around best practice.

Head of Architecture and Integration - London Our Client is an international investment bank based in the City London. They are now looking to recruit a Head of Architecture and Integration. You will have at least 10 plus years at a senior level in technology. Provide end-end analysis, architectural specification, guidance and review Identify options for delivering best-value solutions to meet the architectural strategy, balancing available time and resources against strategic direction and architecture Distil complex problems for analysis, assessment, presentation and resolution Support senior decision makers, and support the decision making process with consultation and in-depth expertise Document and oversee project-specific principles and guidelines for solution design, build and implementation Produce architecture and design documents such as process, data and interaction models, to clearly articulate the proposed architectural solution Support the solution design for the project, by providing guidance to build and implementation teams Help maintain and extend the relevant enterprise architectural models. Must have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering qualification (or higher or equivalent) Experience of working in an investment bank in a variety of technical roles. The Client is based in the City of London. The salary for this role will be very competitive. Please send your CV in Word format along with salary and availability.

As a Lead Technical Architect (Solutions) you will work on multiple projects across the data delivery programme on problems that require broad architectural thinking. This post is within a data delivery setting, especially one focussed on AWS, Quantexa and Databricks. You will: Be responsible for leading the technical solution design of data systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions; Assure data services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the data platform and wider IBCA technology strategy; Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and security; Regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge; Be proactive in working with Product Managers and Engineers to identify problems and translating these into scalable technical solutions; Participate in architecture reviews, and technical workshops. Responsibilities Secure Cloud & Platform Architecture (AWS Focus): You will lead and optimise the design of resilient, high-availability AWS environments, ensuring that every infrastructure component is built with a "security-by-design" approach to protect against evolving threats; Architecture Patterns & Standards: You will establish and uphold the technical standards for the organisation, creating reusable patterns and governance frameworks that ensure consistency and quality across all engineering squads; Comprehensive Data Management Design: This involves architecting the end-to-end lifecycle of data systems and services, ensuring the underlying infrastructure supports high-performance analytics and robust data sovereignty; Digital Service Integration & API Management: You will oversee the connectivity of modern digital services by designing scalable API layers and integration strategies that allow internal and external systems to communicate securely and efficiently; Agile Delivery & Stakeholder Translation: You will bridge the gap between complex technical roadmaps and strategic business goals, communicating technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders to ensure smooth, iterative delivery.

Digital Marketing Architecture – Docklands London This is an exciting unique and new challenging position to work a senior level to direct the online marketing strategy for this bank based in the Docklands London. You will be an expert in online digital marketing architecture as a Business Digital Architect with at least 7 to 10 years expertise at a senior level. Our Client is a bank who wants to engineer additional revenue streams from the large database of customers by upselling to them. For this reason we require an expert in the online digital and marketing arena as a Business Digital Architect where you will work with the stakeholders to devise a digital strategy and leverage the multiple revenue streams that they are looking to tap in to. You will be a techno functional architect with the ability to understand Realtime Ad Intelligence and to use this information using the various CRM tools available. The following are some more points regarding this exciting new position: · Develop strategy using digital marketing technology with aim to increase customer engagement and conversion. Advise on optimization strategies used to increase the effectiveness of marketing · In-depth experience of integration of components to deliver digital marketing solutions, including consumer databases, public-facing websites, consumer preference & activity tracking solutions, multi-device consumer targeting tools, consumer segmentation & analytics, multi-channel consumer contact solutions (e-mail, SMS, mobile etc) · Experience in the creation of solutions for targeted marketing to consumers via 3rd-party channels including social media · Relevant experience and ability to articulate and define compelling and holistic digital marketing strategy to support business growth and revenue targets · Marketing cloud knowledge with technologies like DMP platform (Krux, BlueKai etc.) and Ad Server technologies like (OpenX, SAS Ad Server, Adobe T&T etc.) · Knowledge of various DMP data segments and providers that are available in Digital Marketing Platform specific to UK market and banking and financial domain · Business use case definition, experience with data onboarding solutions, mapping of 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data and driving marketing audience segments, new business revenue opportunities · Develop & outline audience strategy recommendations as needed to help better understand the consumer base · Assess and evaluate the current offerings within the DMP landscape, providing POVs on the current state of the data marketplace in UK · Experience with inventory management platforms that overlay ad-serving systems or experience with data-targeting platforms and ad delivery Salary for this role will be circa £100K plus benefits. So if you think you are up for a new challenge and feel you can make a difference then send your CV to us in Word format along salary and availability.