DDAT Senior Technical Architect - MoD - G7

Join Defence Digital as a Senior Technical Architect and play a pivotal role in designing innovative technology solutions that serve millions across the UK. You'll be part of a dynamic organisation where your expertise will directly contribute to supporting the nation through cutting-edge digital programmes and future-focused initiatives.

As Senior Technical Architect you will act as part of a team that defines the solutions architecture for medium to large scale, complex or specialised MOD assignments. You will also define the intelligence exploitation and dissemination solutions architecture for Intelligence Systems on a large scale, complex capability within the MOD. 

Responsibilities

• Design and develop enterprise-level technology solutions aligned with business objectives
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Ensure solutions comply with security, governance, and regulatory standards
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams

  For more information on the Senior Technical Architect profession please see the Government Digital and Data Framework; 

  Technical Architect

  Person specification

  To be successful in the role of Senior Technical Architect you will bring experience of;

  • Developing appropriate elements of an integrated suite of architectures and technical models and policies to cover the applications, data and information infrastructure/ computing layers whilst applying standard methodology across the portfolio. E.g. TOGAF, ArchiMate and ITIL principles.
  • Owning the development of and alignment to Enterprise Architectures to drive convergence, coherence and re-use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) components.
  • Presenting and ratifying artefacts for the Design & Architecture boards that contribute to the architecture repository.
  • Acting as a solutions architect domain expert
  • Working collaboratively with Project Team to deliver applications using Agile and Scaled Agile methodologies.

    Application 

    When submitting your CV, please highlight your career history and experience relevant to this role.? Additionally, refer to the "Things You Need to Know" section of the advert and provide a personal statement (max.1250 words) demonstrating the ?Essential Criteria?listed below:?? 

    Essential Criteria

    • Experience in solution architecture or similar technical design roles, with a proven track record of leading and delivering large scale end to end architectural projects.
    • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and methodologies, proficiency in tools and frameworks to support complex architectural designs, governance and stakeholder communication, for example production of design patterns, modelling languages and component building blocks.
    • A great listener with excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentational) including the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts with ability to engage diverse stakeholders by adapting communication style, language and format to fit the needs of the audience.
    • Problem-solving mindset with analytical thinking capabilities
      Behaviours

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

      • Seeing the Big Picture
      • Making Effective Decisions
        Technical skills

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

        • Communicating between the technical and non-technical (technical architect)
        • Making and guiding decisions
        • Turning business problems into technical design
        • Understanding the whole context