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As a GDS Lead Technical architect, you’ll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. You will help design and drive the technical strategy for the area you work in while ensuring alignment with broader GDS standards and goals. You’ll hold the vision for technical architecture best practice in your area, enabling us to build resilient and reliable government services, communicating this to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Lead Technical Architects often work across different teams and services. You’ll ensure that technical designs meet 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 Lead Technical Architect, you’ll: lead by example, be a visible leader who takes responsibility and acts as a role model contribute to the development and iteration of GDS architectural and engineering practices, principles and standards 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 restraints 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 teams and wider organisational areas to identify strategic requirements and dependencies help develop services by contributing code, testing technologies and producing rapid prototypes advise teams on the right mix of capabilities to achieve their roadmapped goals and desired service levels act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences etc be involved in helping recruiting technical architects and other senior technologists, where appropriate, helping sift and interview manage, coach and mentor more junior Technical Architects as well as others in the wider software engineering community

Junior Full Stack Developer (JavaScript) Milton Keynes - Hybrid £35,00 - £40,000 + 2 days WFH + Holiday This is an excellent opportunity for a Junior Full Stack Developer looking to join a business that offers huge internal progression opportunities. Within this role you will become a key member in contributing to the organisations success and be a factor shaping the business in years to come. This company is a global creative production partner that helps businesses with their marketing campaigns. They offer services like on-demand creative staffing, cross-channel production management, and automated workflows through their technology platform. In this varied role you will focus on front-end and back-end development, working alongside a team to design, build, test, and deploy web applications. You'll craft user interfaces, handle server-side logic, integrate databases, and collaborate on code reviews to maintain quality. Troubleshooting user issues and staying on top of the latest web development trends are also key aspects of this position. The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded developer with experience in both front-end and back-end development. They should be proficient in the foundational web languages HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and have familiarity with popular front-end frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js. On the back-end side, experience with a programming language with Node.js is essential with knowledge of Python, Ruby and Java, along with a basic understanding of databases and SQL. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious Full Stack Developer that is looking for significant growth potential, progression, and long-term development to join a business at an exciting time of growth. The Role: - Collaborate on design, build, test, and deploy web applications. - Craft user interfaces (front-end). - Handle server-side logic and database integration (back-end). - Participate in code reviews for quality control. The Person: - Experience in both Front-end and Back-end. - Proficient in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. - Knowledge of Node.js for Back-end is essential. - Desirable to have previously used Python, Ruby, Java and SQL Databases. Reference Number: BBBH262197 To apply for this role or for to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Tom McLaughlin at Rise Technical Recruitment This vacancy is being advertised by Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd. The services of Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd are that of an Employment Agency Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd regrets to inform that our client can only accept applications from engineering candidates who have a valid legal permit or right to work in the United Kingdom. Potential candidates who do not have this right or permit, or are pending an application to obtain this right or permit should not apply as your details will not be processed.