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Job description Key responsibilities include: setting the architecture vision and roadmap for the Home Office and leading enterprise architecture strategic planning, ensuring alignment to the wider DDaT and Home Office technical strategy directing architecture policies, principles & standards and creating current/future state models and blueprints ensuring the organisation meets its legal obligations with solutions that are architected, designed, built and procured to meet relevant architecture standards and are accessible to all working with Security and Infrastructure teams to provide robust, secure, scalable and reusable solutions within time and budget restraints, and integrating them into business as usual ensuring strategic, technical and operational risks and issues relating to architecture are identified and appropriately managed leading a team of architecture, technology and engineering professionals, ensuring that they are managed effectively and aligned with the DDaT strategy defining and leading appropriate governance forums and processes for architecture, aligned with the DDaT Technical Design Authority, to ensure optimal decision-making and successful delivery embedding innovation into strategic planning and establishing continuous improvement processes that drive efficiency in the cost and quality of platform services *For further information, please check the Candidate pack for the role, attached at the end of the advert.

Job description DBS Technical Architects support DBS with the design and transition of shared service capabilities to meet the needs of UK Defence and its stakeholders. DBS Technical Architects ensure that Defence procurement, financial and human resource capabilities are designed and delivered in line with effective standards and strategies to meet Defence shared service capability and technology modernisation goals. The roles work as an integral part of the DBS Architecture Profession team to ensure all delivered services integrate cleanly into DBS business, technology, application, and data architecture layers. DBS Technical Architects support the implementation of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) strategy for DBS and the vision set by the Chief Technology Officer. The post holder will: Collaborate with architects across the enterprise to assess change impacts and ensure a coherent delivery approach. Providing support and advice to other architects who are undertaking the design of new business solutions Design solutions in line with MoD design and security policy and gain approvals through the DBS Technical Design Authority governance forum. Design models and reference artifacts enabling re-use of solution components supporting other architects to conform to required processes and standards. Ensure that new business capabilities are designed for clean integration with existing services. Considering service, applications, data and technology architectural layers and including through life compliance with business and technology policy and strategy Support development of governance, processes, and tooling to monitor and manage new business design, delivery and usage across the DBS enterprise Engage with MOD, industry, and government wide leaders and technical / service experts to identify and implement best architecture practice solutions to meet business needs. Support proofs of concept for technologies and services new to DBS. Support, coach and mentor colleagues in adapting to new delivery approaches as a result of architectural design changes. Ensure architectures are compliant with DBS technical principles and contribute to achievement of the DBS Digital, Data and Technology Strategy aims

We are seeking developers and senior developers to join the following teams: Cloud Platform Team (1 Senior, 1 Mid) - working alongside Site Reliability Engineers you'll develop and manage our core AWS cloud platform Developer Experience and Finops team (1 Senior) - you'll build and maintain automations to effectively manage our core engineering tooling, and act as a custodian and advocate for great engineering practice across GDS Engineering Access Operations team - (1 Senior, 1 Mid) - you'll build and maintain automation supporting our core identity and access management system based on Microsoft Entra ID. All of the roles will involve being working across a range of technologies and being willing to understand the whole system you work on. We use terraform to manage our infrastructure as code. We primarily use Python and GitHub Actions for automation, but also have some Ruby and Golang code. Check out our for more about being a developer at GDS, and join our candidate open call on 12 August, 12:30 to 13:30 on to hear from the hiring team and have a chance to ask us questions. As a Developer in the Technology programme, you’ll: work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team, getting involved with every part of the lifecycle of a service, from user research to continuously deploying code to production in our AWS environments build robust automations and services in Python or Ruby to support our internal engineering operations, taking responsibility for the quality of code you produce implement tooling and automation to support development, operation, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the systems you work on support the live operation of the services we run, and participate in out-of-hours support rotas where necessary - you'll be paid an allowance, and a further hourly payment, for any duties you perform when on call share your work and the things you’ve learned through blog posts and show and tells, with the option of presenting at conferences and meetups use your learning and development budget to develop your career help recruit other developers and, where appropriate, get involved with sifting and interviewing

Responsibilities User-centred content design . You will support the design of content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand. You are aware of government accessibility requirements and can design content that works with common assistive technologies; UX Design . Work with a multidisciplinary team in an agile environment to turn concepts into user-centred designs. Understand as-is interaction design and identify improvement opportunities. Apply your knowledge of interaction design practices to create better user experiences; Evidence based practice. Use different types of data (including analytics, User feedback, User research and usability testing) to inform and explain your design decisions; User focus. Understand the range of different users who might access content and services and can identify their needs based on evidence. Ability to translate User stories into content that meets users’ needs and propose suitable design approaches; Agile working. Good working knowledge of Agile methodology and ability to apply agile mindset to delivery; Content/design concepts and prototyping. Ability to choose the best option to make content understandable to different audiences and to demonstrate a proposed approach to content changes or improvements; Stakeholder relationship management. Ability to communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders at different levels. You can tailor communication to their needs and work with them to build relationships while also meeting User needs; Strategic thinking. You can contribute to content strategies and policies, and can help create content patterns or standards.

The Technical Architect will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering our Agency’s technology vision, focusing on the strategic transition from on-premise to cloud services while ensuring business continuity. This senior position will be responsible for designing and overseeing complex technical solutions that align with public sector requirements, security standards, and modernisation initiatives. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust Technical Architectures that protect the Agency’s systems from threats and vulnerabilities. Your primary goal is to ensure that all IT services and solutions are secure by design and compliant with government security policies and standards. This role requires a strategic thinker with deep technical knowledge, an understanding of emerging threats, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to embed security principles throughout the IT landscape. You will maintain relationships with relevant suppliers, making sure services and products are delivered and aligned to industry best practice and regulatory and contractual requirements. Key responsibilities: Technical Architecture Design Support the development and maintenance of the technical architecture roadmap, with particular emphasis on cloud migration strategies and hybrid infrastructure to support wider Agency objectives Support the development and maintenance of the Technical Architecture Reference Model to ensure it aligns with the IT strategy, government policies, and best practices Provide technical governance and oversight across IT projects, ensuring solutions meet security, scalability, and compliance requirements specific to UK public sector standards (including GDS standards and Technology Code of Practice). Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, cloud services, and architectural patterns that could benefit the Agency, maintaining awareness of technology trends and best practices Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration Act as the Senior Technical Architect for project teams, providing expert guidance on requirements, design considerations, and risk management. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure technical architecture is integrated into all aspects of the Agency’s digital transformation initiatives. Influence and educate technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, and across organisations, using architecture communication techniques Mediate between people in difficult architectural discussions Innovation and Continuous Improvement Proactively identify opportunities to improve the Technical Architecture and reduce risk through innovation, new technologies, and process improvements. Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in Technical Architecture, bringing forward recommendations for improvement.

Notify is a web application built with Python and Flask, running on Gunicorn. It is supported by several microservices, also written in Python, utilising frameworks and libraries such as Celery, Eventlet, SQLAlchemy, etc. Additionally, Notify utilises AWS RDS (Postgres), AWS SQS, AWS ElastiCache, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and other related services. Concourse CI and Terraform are used to run build-pipelines and manage our infrastructure. For the frontend, we follow the , making use of Frontend components and patterns. As a Senior Developer in Notify you’ll: work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team, collaborating with frontend developers, content designers, product managers and user researchers to ensure your code puts users first at all stages of development write clean and secure code following a test-driven approach implement tools to support development and continuous improvement of the systems you work on support the live operation of the services we run during office hours, answering support queries from users, monitoring error rates and responding to incidents participate in out-of-hours support rotas where necessary - you'll be paid an allowance, and a further hourly payment for any duties you perform when on call share your work and the things you’ve learned through blog posts, show and tells, with the option of presenting at conferences and meetups use your learning and development budget to develop your career

We are seeking a dedicated Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Enterprise Information Architect to join our team, reporting directly to the Assistant Head Information Architect within the Army Information Design Authority (DA). Collaboration with other enterprise domain architects and functional stakeholders is key, as you help integrate information architecture into the organisation in a standard, repeatable and reusable manner. The Info DA is the mechanism by which Director Information and the Army Chief Technology Officer can operate as the digital functional leader for the British Army. The organisation and information capability-portfolio requires a digital, data, information and architectural governance capability to support and control design operational outcomes and warfighting effectiveness, future proofing the Army's processes, information and technology footprint for maximum operational effectiveness across organisational boundaries in a digital and data age. As the SEO Enterprise Information Architect, you will be required to: Network and communicate with stakeholders across the information domain and identify opportunities for improvement Apply and develop architectural frameworks, principles and techniques Develop standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk Guide others in using appropriate architectural tools and methods Explain complex problems using clear language and artefacts Bring together disconnected information to inform decision making Responsible for the maintenance of the Army Information Architecture Repository Line Manage 1 x Higher Executive Officer (HEO) Civil Servant

- Help develop and improve pay and reward for the Government’s Digital and Data profession of over 25,000 by making sure our pay is competitive, and our arrangements are widely understood and adopted. Market pay analysis to inform the drafting of new 2025 business cases on: Senior Civil Service roles Cyber roles (not cyber security roles) Current Government Digital and Data roles - Capture and analysis of UK employment practice on bonuses and non-pay benefits to help build a profession-led reward approach for a future business case. - Reviewing and analysing departments’ business cases to adopt, or extend, the pay framework focusing on Spreadsheet analysis of department’s data, and savings estimates - Template completion - Advising and supporting departments Implementation preparation - Advising and supporting new adopting departments on capability assessment - Building a GDS library of adopting departments documentation and agreements connected to framework implementation. - Upkeep and own management information related to pay and reward across the GDD profession. - Support the pay and reward lead as necessary, e.g. deputise at meetings. Person specification Who you are You’re naturally analytical and enjoy diving into pay data, building models, testing ideas and spotting patterns others might miss. Excel is your go to tool and you know how to use it to make sense of the numbers. You’re a confident communicator and a trusted partner to stakeholders, with the ability to explain the "what" and "why" clearly, whether in a meeting or in writing. You also have a solid understanding of reward tools and frameworks, not just learning them, but experience of putting them into practice and seeing the results.

The current responsibilities of the role include: Oversee the governance of Air’s Digital Portfolio, serving as the primary lead for digital input into RAF Force Development and Capability processes. Own, develop, and enforce digital, data, and information architectures for Air and Space Commands, directing the RAF Digital Design Authority and collaborating closely with the Defence Digital architectural community and the Integrated Design Authority. Lead the RAF’s in-house Digital Services delivery activities. Establish, enforce, and assure digital and data technology standards across the RAF, aligning with MOD Chief Information Officer Defence standards and extending them to the Air domain, while maintaining awareness of equivalent industrial and civilian sector standards. Shape and align the RAF’s future digital and data requirements with wider Defence, influencing Defence-level investment priorities and delivery strategies to meet the RAF’s critical digital needs. Coordinate digital and data innovation and experimentation across the RAF, including initiatives such as the Rapid Capability Office, while serving as a member of the Air Command Technology and Innovation Board. Lead RAF Digital’s Business Engagement function, encompassing Digital Relationship Management, the RAF Digital ‘Front Door,’ and the RAF Digital sub-Portfolio Office. Act as Co-Chair of the Air Digital Working Group and a member of the Digital Steering Group. Lead the creation and enforcement of a consistent digital architecture across all Air Command and Space Command programmes and projects—not limited to those delivered by RAF Digital. This ensures Air and Space capabilities are fully integrated into the broader Integrated Force. The CDTO will head the Digital Design Authority to deliver, enforce, and assure this architecture. Oversee the delivery of a diverse portfolio of RAF Digital projects, many involving innovative commercial constructs. The CDTO will have overall responsibility for this portfolio, including securing external approvals and assurance from Defence Digital and the Government Digital and Data Office, as required.. Shape Defence-level digital standards and delivery to ensure Air and Space requirements are met, enabling Air and Space Commands to effectively exploit Joint capabilities. The CDTO will act as the principal liaison with Defence Digital and the Integration Design Authority. Directly oversee the output of 164 personnel. Manage and approve an annual budget exceeding £50M. Given the high demand for RAF Digital outputs, the CDTO, alongside the Deputy Director Digital, will chair the Air Digital Working Group, making data-driven prioritisation decisions aligned with Air’s strategic objectives. Balancing competing priorities to deliver maximum value is a critical aspect of the role. Direct the development of Air Command’s digital strategy and delivery plan, ensuring alignment with operational and business outcomes. The CDTO will set long-term priorities for technology exploitation and development, providing specialist advice and recommendations to the Air Executive Committee and the Air Force Main Board.

We’re looking for candidates with a wide range of skills and experience of working at a senior level, ideally within the public sector. You will have strong leadership and interpersonal skills and enjoy working in a demanding, high profile and dynamic environment. You’ll be passionate about cyber risk management and assurance in a digital, technology and data function and how innovations in these areas can improve public services. We’re interested in people who: have experience of working in an Information or Cyber Security public sector environment have experience of leading a team in a public sector environment have experience of working in an agile environment have experience of creating and implementing risk management frameworks have experience of assuring technical services have a good working knowledge of NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and Secure by Design (SbD) requirements have a good working knowledge the HM Treasury Orange Book and Government Functional Standard 007 As Head of Cyber Risk & Assurance you will: lead on the Information Assurance / Governance process acting as the second line of defence within the organisation lead on the continual development and tracking of the information security risks, working collaboratively with relevant colleagues lead on assurance and tracking of delivery assurance and programme health, reporting insights into relevant boards co-ordinate the assurance of a number of different programmes and services and ensure that objectives are met and relationships are effectively managed manage the GDS cyber risk management framework manage relevant audits such as CAF and SbD lead on reporting to DSIT including departmental risk committee strategic cyber risks and risk treatment plans line manage a team of risk and assurance specialists form part of the senior leadership group for Technology & Security Directorate

As a GDS Technical Architect, you’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. You’ll ensure a project’s overall technical design meets user needs and acceptance criteria, whilst conforming to time and budget constraints. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you’ll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. As a Technical Architect, you'll: design technical services or plan system integration, selecting necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring designs & solutions are fit for purpose, whilst meeting time and budget constraints build and maintain technical roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by development teams align with the strategy encourage communication across multiple development teams to identify strategic requirements and dependencies help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes be involved in the wider software engineering community, including cyber security and operations teams, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing your experiences, eg through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices ensure delivery is aligned with the and work with others across GDS to keep that up to date and relevant advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog be involved in helping recruiting technical architects and other technologists, where appropriate, helping sift and interview help colleagues with their career development, coaching and managing more junior staff members

Job description As a GDS Technical Architect, you’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. You’ll ensure a project’s overall technical design meets user needs and acceptance criteria, whilst conforming to time and budget constraints. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you’ll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. As a Technical Architect, you'll: design technical services or plan system integration, selecting necessary platforms and technologies to meet project requirements and user needs provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external development teams, ensuring designs & solutions are fit for purpose, whilst meeting time and budget constraints build and maintain technical roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by development teams align with the strategy encourage communication across multiple development teams to identify strategic requirements and dependencies help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes be involved in the wider software engineering community, including cyber security and operations teams, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing your experiences, eg through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc enable a positive technical culture, applying agile methods to development and completing quality assurance practices ensure delivery is aligned with the and work with others across GDS to keep that up to date and relevant advise product managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of current user stories, as well as those in the backlog be involved in helping recruiting technical architects and other technologists, where appropriate, helping sift and interview help colleagues with their career development, coaching and managing more junior staff members

Defence Digital as a Lead Data & Information Architect – Products and Services and play a pivotal role in transforming how government Data and Information serves the nation. In this exciting position, you will lead developing the Enterprise Architectural Principles, Policies, Standards, Procedures and Guidance for cutting-edge Data and Information Products and Services, developing and championing innovation that drives excellence in Decision Advantage across the organisation. You will act as a the key Functional Leadership expert for Data & Information Products & Services for Defence, ensuring those delivering capability across the Defence enterprise have access to the best patterns and guidance, while building, managing and developing a talented team of Data and Information Enterprise Architects. Working collaboratively with peers, you will actively review and enhance Data & Information Reference Architectures that support critical government operations. Responsibilities As Lead Data & Information Architect – Products and Services you will Lead the design of innovative Data and Information Products and Services Develop and communicate comprehensive Principles, Policies, Procedures, Standards, and Guidance Manage and develop a team of Data and Information Enterprise Architects Act as critical friend to lead architects of different business functions and informally supporting their Data & Information architectural design work For more information on the Data Architect profession please see the Government Digital and Data Framework;

Job description As the Interaction Designer, you'll: design clear, accessible, usable digital interfaces that meet user needs and follow the Design System create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design ideas and test assumptions collaborate in agile teams with product managers, user researchers, and developers to iterate services based on research, analytics, and feasibility participate in design critiques and reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback contribute to user research activities and use findings to inform design decisions facilitate design workshops with teams, stakeholders, and users champion accessibility and inclusion, ensuring designs meet standards and legal requirements maintain and contribute to design systems, style guides, and component libraries to ensure consistency

About the Role: As data analyst for these projects, you will design and develop scripts and tools to automate the processing and transformation of textual archival metadata. The most common data formats you will encounter are .csv, .xlsx .xml and .json. You will be based in our growing and vibrant Research, Grants and Academic Engagement Department, but will work with colleagues from across the organisation providing technical consultancy and solutions. Why Join Us? Within the beautiful surroundings of Kew, a 10-minute walk from the Underground and Overground stations, The National Archives boasts a collegial working environment and an excellent Civil Service benefits package. This includes flexible working, an on-site gym, and an opportunity to join the Civil Service Alpha Pension Scheme. Putting you at the forefront of our organisation, we are committed to supporting professional development and training for all of our colleagues. Job description Full job description attached (see below). Person specification This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time. Please note that candidates shortlisted for interview will take a technical test. How to apply: If you are an internal applicant: please do not use the link on this page. Please apply via your employee Workday account. If you are an external applicant: to submit your application please click the 'Apply at advertiser's site' button on this page. You will be asked to provide details of your work experience and write a personal statement, not exceeding 1200 words. In your statement please explain, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria below. You may draw on knowledge, skills, abilities, experience gained from paid work, domestic responsibilities, education, leisure interests and voluntary activities. Please note selection for interview will largely be based on the information you provide in this section. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

This post will be part of the Defence Intelligence (DI) Data Office (DO) leading the Architecture Team and responsible for delivering the vision of the Architecture and Engineering Principal and Chief Data Officer (CDO). As a Grade 7 Senior Data Architect you will use your knowledge to help design data models and metadata systems. Working closely with the Architecture and Engineering Principal you will help interpret the organisation’s needs. You will provide oversight and advice to other data architects who are designing and producing data artefacts and design and support the management of data dictionaries and data catalogues. You will be responsible for ensuring that teams are working to the data standards set for the organisation by the Architecture and Engineering Principal and CDO, working with other technical architects to make sure that an organisations systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.