Principal Technical Architect

• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations.
• Proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation.
• Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
• Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
• Define and assure solution architectures across multiple programmes, ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture, reference architectures, and strategic direction.
• Work across organisational and departmental boundaries, including DfT and other government bodies, to ensure alignment of architecture and interoperability of services.
• Ensure that solution designs incorporate appropriate security considerations, working with Security Architecture to align with Secure by Design principles and agreed security standards.
• Establish and maintain architectural governance, ensuring that designs are robust, consistent, and meet required standards for build, operation, and support.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

Can you demonstrate experience of providing technical design and governance over a programme of work?

Do you have a strong understanding of, and hands-on experience with, cloud technologies?

Have you worked in senior architectural role within a dynamic and innovative environment?

If you can show the appetite and commitment required to help drive an organisation through a significant transformation, we'd love to hear from you., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: * Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here * 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King's birthday * Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. Read more in the Benefits section below! Find out more about what it's like working at Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - Department for Transport Careers The DVLA deliver wide reaching digital services to the UK public and industry. We maintain the national record of vehicles and drivers which means we reach over 53 million people a year. If you have applied for a driving licence, changed vehicle, taxed your vehicle, or completed a vehicle enquiry you would have used one of our services. You'll get to work alongside our business service designers and agile software development teams and use modern and exciting technologies. Right now, we're rebuilding our services on a cloud-first platform using Containers and Serverless technologies as well as modern CI/CD tooling, so it's a great time to join.