Senior Technical Architect

Details
Reference number
375896
Salary
£41,571 - £56,784
Base salary is £41,571 - £45,784 with an additional DDaT allowance of £4,350 - £11,000 available. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
DDaT Lead
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH - Digital Services
Type of role
Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology
Other
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking
Number of jobs available
3
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About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK)
About the job
Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Companies House architecture team as a Senior Technical Architect, an important role in a small, high performing team within an organisation that truly values its staff.

The team is responsible for developing technical architectures that deliver business objectives, while supporting and encouraging one another to create the most effective designs with a focus on delivering value. Team working is highly valued along with a willingness to challenge established thinking and ways of working.

This is an opportunity to advance your knowledge and technical understanding in a high-profile role which has an impact across the organisation, developing systems that are used nationally and at high volume. We're currently fulfilling around 14 million search requests per day with users including the general public, businesses, the police and other government organisations. In this role you will work with the wider Digital and Technology Directorate, working closely with business stakeholders and other technical architects to develop technical designs that address business priorities and guide the development teams in creating robust, secure solutions. This is an opportunity to work with the latest cloud technologies, develop microservice architectures and shape the technical direction of the organisation. You will have excellent technical skills, a background in software engineering, and a willingness to pick up architectural design skills.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Technical Architect whose responsibilities will include:

Assisting lead technical architects with technical guidance and architectural designs to help shape the future digital services at Companies House.
Helping establish and maintain architectural principles, strategy, governance and technical direction for Companies House services.
Working closely with the architecture team to ensure designs are consistent and fit for purpose.
Working closely with development teams, ensuring their output adheres to the architectural designs.

This is an exciting opportunity in digital services, designing and delivering quality services to our users. By helping us to shape our services, you'll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in government.

Person specification

We are looking for someone to be part of our team in a time of great change and to play an integral part in shaping the architecture and design of future digital services that are used worldwide, help tackle economic crime at a national level and provide confidence to the UK economy. We want someone keen to improve their skills using new and exciting technologies and develop their career working on diverse projects with a focus on continuous improvement, while being part of a supportive high-profile team. We are seeking a talented individual who not only excels in architectural design but also possesses exceptional communication skills to effectively engage with colleagues and stakeholders across the business.

Experience

We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Please refer to the bullet points in bold below when writing your personal statement.

Proven experience working with scalable, distributed services within a production environment.
Technical leadership experience.
Experience of building microservice architecture patterns.
Experience of public cloud service offerings, especially IaaS / PaaS.
Demonstrate experience of translating user requirements to solution designs.
Demonstrate ability to think strategically whilst having a strong focus on technologies and operational service delivery.

Technical experience

We are looking for the following technical experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Please refer to the bullet points in bold below when writing your personal statement.

Our current technology stack primarily comprises: node.js, Java/Spring, Kafka and MongoDB running in AWS and some exposure to these technologies would be beneficial.

Proven commercial experience of a selection of the following technologies/skills:

Microservices Architectures
API Development
Cloud Computing Platforms
Distributed Event Streaming
NoSQL Databases
Relational Databases
Behaviours

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

Communicating and Influencing
Seeing the Big Picture
Changing and Improving
Technical skills

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

Microservice architectures
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £41,571, Companies House contributes £12,043 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we're committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.

Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.

We celebrate diversity

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we're representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

We are proud to be a disability confident leader. Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. We will be happy to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing

Where will you be working?

You will be aligned to our Cardiff Office, where we are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. The degree of choice you have will depend on business need, your role and your day-to-day work activities and will be discussed at offer stage. Most of our Digital workforce are currently working from home or in a hybrid approach and this will also apply to this role. The office base for this role will be our Cardiff Head Office as this is where most of the team are based. For those candidates who live further afield and not within a commutable distance, we will consider remote working. This can be discussed in more detail with the line manager.

Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

In your application form we'd like you to:

Tell us about your employment history, including key responsibilities and achievements.
We'd like you to write a personal statement of 750 words where you demonstrate how you meet the bold bullet points in experience and technical experience detailed in the person specification, and also listed below:
Proven experience working with scalable, distributed services within a production environment
Technical leadership experience
Microservices Architectures
API Development
Cloud Computing Platforms
Distributed Event Streaming
NoSQL Databases
Relational Databases

What will the process look like?

We will sift applications and then invite successful candidates from the sift stage to attend a virtual interview click apply for full job details