Solution Architect

• Designs application products to meet user needs and align with DWP strategy and standards.
• Provides a consistent set of application product architecture views, that communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholders.
• Solution communication champion, making the complex simple to understand.
• Supporting delivery teams, blending technical (development and architecture) and behaviour (leadership and communication) skills.

Responsibilities -

• To design and represent architecture solutions
• Deliver the technical and architecture design elements of projects / initiatives
• Build relationships and work collaboratively with other Digital professionals
• Create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases, to drive decision making on best solution design
• Make technology choice proposals for Products
• Create high-level solution architecture documentation and architecture design artefacts for governance, including all relevant SME input.
• To ensure compliance of design with approved design in the Digital Blueprint
• Ensure technical quality and adherence of Product designs to the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture and Product Roadmaps
• Engage with Domain and Lead Solution Architects and engineers to implement solutions according to agreed and approved designs
• Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce architecture complexity and reduce technical debt

To maintain Product roadmaps and help maintain the Digital Blueprint *

• Be accountable for product architecture, contribute to product roadmaps, in alignment with engineering

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• Identify, capture, iterate and implement architecture patterns

To contribute to, and build capability in, the Architecture community *

• Sharing best practice and reference architectures
• Participate/Support development of the Architecture Community of Practice

• Significant Architecture experience
• Government/Public client experience
• AWS/Azure Solution experience and relevant certification (good to have)