Technical Architect, Digital Corporate Enablement Office

A Technical Architect is responsible for shaping, documenting and assuring technical architectures that support the delivery of digital products, platforms and services. They analyse business and technical requirements, contribute to solution designs and help ensure services are secure, scalable, supportable and aligned with The Home Office objectives.

As a Technical Architect, you will undertake structured analysis of business and technical challenges, translating requirements into clear solution designs and architecture artefacts. You will identify risks, constraints and opportunities for reuse, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams to support the delivery of secure and resilient services.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office. Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

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Understanding Home Office Digital interviews Tickets, Thursday, September 10 • 1 PM - 1:45 PM GMT+1 , Eventbrite, You will transform business requirements into secure, scalable, and future-proof technical architectures in this role.

You’ll work in agile, collaborative environments to design and deliver services that meet user needs and strategic goals.

You will guide stakeholders through technical decisions, ensuring alignment with governance and assurance processes, and championing continuous improvement and innovation., * Analyse existing services, platforms and technical solutions to identify improvement opportunities, manage technical risks and support the delivery of secure and sustainable outcomes.

• Contribute to solution architecture by producing architecture artefacts, evaluating technical options and documenting design decisions, risks and dependencies.
• Support integration of new systems, platforms and cloud services into existing environments, producing architecture diagrams, technical assessments and design documentation to support delivery.
• Take ownership of architecture activities for designated products, services or technical workstreams, supporting their design, delivery and continual improvement.
• Collaborate across teams and suppliers to identify reusable components, reduce technical debt, and drive consistent architectural practices.
• Review delivered solutions to assess whether architectural objectives have been achieved and identify opportunities for improvement and reuse.
• Adhere to governance requirements and assurance frameworks, ensuring solutions meet relevant policies, standards, and compliance requirements.

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available.

Essential Skills

• Contributing to the design and assurance of secure, resilient and supportable digital services.
• Producing architecture artefacts and technical designs that support the delivery of secure, resilient and supportable services.
• Producing and maintaining architecture artefacts, including architecture diagrams, technical assessments and design documentation.
• Driving innovation and continuous improvement in solution design.
• Working effectively across multidisciplinary teams, suppliers and stakeholders to develop practical technology solutions.
• Working within agile delivery environments and understanding how architecture supports delivery, operations and continual improvement.
• Contributing to technical roadmaps, architecture standards and reusable design patterns.
• Understanding security, resilience, data, accessibility and operational requirements when designing technical solutions., * UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) version 8 is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A - Z English (sfia-online.org).

We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process.

The essential skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework (based on the industry standard SFIA framework). Use the SFIA Levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each technical skills listed below.

• Strategic Planning (ITSP) – Level 3
• Innovation (INOV) – Level 3
• Enterprise and Business Architecture (STPL) – Level 3
• Solution Architecture (ARCH) – Level 3
• Consultancy (CNSL) – Level 3
• Specialist Advice (TECH) – Level 3, We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

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

• Enterprise and Business Architecture (STPL) – Level 3
• Solution Architecture (ARCH) – Level 3
• Consultancy (CNSL) – Level 3
• Specialist Advice (TECH) – Level 3, This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills., For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers.

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.

However, in exceptional circumstances security clearance applications for candidates who have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected., We are unable to sponsor any individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas as we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License., Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

Pulled from the full job description

• Annual leave
• Company pension, £49,850 New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum £49,850 for National roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £7,550. A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP, Alongside your salary of £49,850, Home Office contributes £14,441 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Why work for us…

Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.