The advert:
Cardiff Metropolitan University is embarking on an exciting journey to procure and implement a new student records system - an initiative that will shape the future of how we support our students. As part of this transformational programme, we’re recruiting a Lead Technical Architect to play a pivotal role in delivering and shaping this change.
As the subject matter expert, you’ll guide the IT technical implementation of the new system, from shaping procurement decisions, through to implementation and delivery. Using your experience, you’ll provide expert guidance and technical oversight across all systems linked to the student record system’s programme of work, whilst creating an architectural framework that supports future innovation and a culture of learning and cohesiveness.
Working collaboratively with the Programme Manager and cross functional teams, you’ll ensure the system meets current needs and those of the emerging future. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to define non-functional requirements and ensure alignment with business needs.
As part of your role, you’ll
Lead the technical architecture design including system integration, data models, security protocols, and infrastructure.
Provide technical and strategic direction across systems within or integrated with the student records programme.
Oversee migration of legacy data, ensuring data integrity, minimal disruption, and adherence to data protection regulations.
Produce technical documentation including presentations, reports, High and Low-level architecture documents and other documentation on digital solutions.
Take responsibility for team management, development, and well-being, offering initiatives that foster continuous professional growth for themselves and team members.
What you’ll bring
With demonstrable experience as a Technical Architect overseeing enterprise-level system implementations in complex organisational environments, you’ll bring a proven ability to engage effectively with business representatives and senior stakeholders.
You’ll have led the technical aspects of large-scale projects, including risk mitigation and stakeholder engagement, and possess a solid technical foundation with deep understanding of the systems development life-cycle and the complexities that arise from initial concept through to delivery and support.
In addition, you’ll bring
Experience leading cross-functional teams or contributing to enterprise-wide IT strategies.
Aptitude for problem-solving, with knowledge of problem-solving methodologies.
Ability to analyse complex problems, facilitate workshops, and produce clear architectural designs from conceptual to detailed levels.
Proven communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?
We are a values-based University. We are proud of our culture, and we are there for our people. Our community spirit is the golden thread that underpins our values and behaviours. We support and embrace inclusion that enables everyone to feel respected and able to perform at their best. By joining our University, you'll find yourself in a unique environment where a wealth of knowledge and resources are readily available, supporting you with your career development.
We offer excellent benefits such as:
Annual leave of 35 days, plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days
Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous monthly contributions.
Excellent family friendly policies – take a look on our Policy Hub page.
Opportunities to learn and develop your skills with access to library and digital services facilities.
Excellent sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership.
Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured.
Contact us
For more information about the role please contact Hywel Bufton, Head of Digital Services on hrbufton@cardiffmet.ac.uk .
All applications must be submitted online.
The person specification will be used as a tool for shortlisting; so please make sure you use this information when writing your application. You can find useful hints and tips about how to apply by visiting our Application Guidance page.
23/12/2025
Full time
The advert:
Cardiff Metropolitan University is embarking on an exciting journey to procure and implement a new student records system - an initiative that will shape the future of how we support our students. As part of this transformational programme, we’re recruiting a Lead Technical Architect to play a pivotal role in delivering and shaping this change.
As the subject matter expert, you’ll guide the IT technical implementation of the new system, from shaping procurement decisions, through to implementation and delivery. Using your experience, you’ll provide expert guidance and technical oversight across all systems linked to the student record system’s programme of work, whilst creating an architectural framework that supports future innovation and a culture of learning and cohesiveness.
Working collaboratively with the Programme Manager and cross functional teams, you’ll ensure the system meets current needs and those of the emerging future. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to define non-functional requirements and ensure alignment with business needs.
As part of your role, you’ll
Lead the technical architecture design including system integration, data models, security protocols, and infrastructure.
Provide technical and strategic direction across systems within or integrated with the student records programme.
Oversee migration of legacy data, ensuring data integrity, minimal disruption, and adherence to data protection regulations.
Produce technical documentation including presentations, reports, High and Low-level architecture documents and other documentation on digital solutions.
Take responsibility for team management, development, and well-being, offering initiatives that foster continuous professional growth for themselves and team members.
What you’ll bring
With demonstrable experience as a Technical Architect overseeing enterprise-level system implementations in complex organisational environments, you’ll bring a proven ability to engage effectively with business representatives and senior stakeholders.
You’ll have led the technical aspects of large-scale projects, including risk mitigation and stakeholder engagement, and possess a solid technical foundation with deep understanding of the systems development life-cycle and the complexities that arise from initial concept through to delivery and support.
In addition, you’ll bring
Experience leading cross-functional teams or contributing to enterprise-wide IT strategies.
Aptitude for problem-solving, with knowledge of problem-solving methodologies.
Ability to analyse complex problems, facilitate workshops, and produce clear architectural designs from conceptual to detailed levels.
Proven communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?
We are a values-based University. We are proud of our culture, and we are there for our people. Our community spirit is the golden thread that underpins our values and behaviours. We support and embrace inclusion that enables everyone to feel respected and able to perform at their best. By joining our University, you'll find yourself in a unique environment where a wealth of knowledge and resources are readily available, supporting you with your career development.
We offer excellent benefits such as:
Annual leave of 35 days, plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days
Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous monthly contributions.
Excellent family friendly policies – take a look on our Policy Hub page.
Opportunities to learn and develop your skills with access to library and digital services facilities.
Excellent sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership.
Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured.
Contact us
For more information about the role please contact Hywel Bufton, Head of Digital Services on hrbufton@cardiffmet.ac.uk .
All applications must be submitted online.
The person specification will be used as a tool for shortlisting; so please make sure you use this information when writing your application. You can find useful hints and tips about how to apply by visiting our Application Guidance page.
Position Summary
We're seeking an Associate Director, IT Infrastructure to lead and transform our scientific computing environment in support of our cutting-edge gene therapy research. This senior leadership position will drive the strategy and execution of research computing initiatives, working in close partnership with our Bioinformatics, AI/ML, and Global IT Infrastructure teams. The role focuses specifically on advancing our scientific computing capabilities through operational excellence, while ensuring our research teams can maximize the value of our high-performance computing investments.
As a key member of the technology leadership team, this position will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic evolution of our research computing environment. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in scientific computing with strong business acumen to deliver innovative solutions that accelerate our research mission. While Global IT Infrastructure maintains our enterprise technology foundation, this role focuses exclusively on the specialized computing needs of our scientific teams, including high-performance computing, GPU-accelerated workflows, and research data management.
Job Responsibilities
Serve as the primary local IT Infrastructure contact for Edinburgh's Bioinformatics and AI/ML teams
Manage and optimize scientific computing infrastructure, including GPU clusters, high-performance storage systems, and virtualized environments
Collaborate with global IT teams to ensure infrastructure alignment with scientific computing needs
Lead technical planning and implementation of infrastructure improvements
Provide technical guidance on architecture decisions affecting scientific workflows
Manage and optimize WEKA storage systems and VSphere virtual environments
Support Linux-based scientific computing environments, leveraging managed services as appropriate
Implement and maintain monitoring solutions for complex computing environments
Participate in capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives
Drive infrastructure automation and continuous improvement
Manage relationships with vendors and technical partners
Vendor & Contract Management:
Manage third-party Linux support contract and contractor relationships
Define and monitor service level agreements
Ensure contractor compliance with company security policies
Review and approve contractor work
Manage vendor performance and escalations
Security & Compliance:
Act as primary point of contact for parent company security audits
Develop and maintain security compliance documentation
Coordinate and respond to penetration testing activities
Implement security recommendations and remediation plans
Ensure infrastructure meets corporate security standards
Participate in security incident response planning
Business Continuity:
Lead disaster recovery planning for scientific computing infrastructure
Coordinate and execute DR testing
Maintain DR documentation and procedures
Develop and maintain business continuity plans
Ensure RPO/RTO objectives are met
Financial Planning & Technical Debt:
Develop long-term capital planning for infrastructure
Manage infrastructure budget and forecasting for AskBio European locations
Identify and track technical debt
Create remediation plans for technical debt
Provide cost-benefit analysis for infrastructure investments
Manage infrastructure lifecycle planning
Develop business cases for infrastructure improvements
Key Competencies:
Technical:
Infrastructure architecture and design
Performance optimization
Problem-solving and troubleshooting
Security best practices
Technical documentation
Business & Management:
Contract negotiation and management
Budget planning and control
Risk management
Audit response and compliance
Strategic planning
Vendor management
Cost-benefit analysis
Interpersonal:
Strong communication skills
Stakeholder management
Team collaboration
Conflict resolution
Customer service orientation
Ability to bridge technical and scientific domains
Leadership:
Technical leadership
Project management
Mentoring and knowledge transfer
Change management
Strategic thinking
Impact Metrics: Success in this role will be measured by:
Infrastructure stability and performance improvements
Stakeholder satisfaction levels
Project delivery effectiveness
Technical problem resolution metrics
Team collaboration effectiveness
Innovation and process improvements
Note: This position requires occasional travel to other company locations and may require some out-of-hours support during critical maintenance windows or emergencies.
This role represents a critical position in our organization, bridging technical expertise with scientific computing needs while fostering strong working relationships between global teams.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering roles
Experience with high-performance computing environments
Proven experience supporting GPU-accelerated computing environments
Strong understanding of storage systems and networking
Experience with infrastructure monitoring and optimization tools
Demonstrated ability to work with scientific computing workflows
Experience managing vendor relationships and contracts
Knowledge of IT security and compliance requirements
Experience with disaster recovery planning and testing
Understanding of IT financial planning and budgeting
Experience with audit responses and compliance documentation
Strong experience with Linux administration and engineering
Extensive knowledge of virtualization technologies, particularly VSphere
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills
Experience with WEKA storage systems
Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure requirements
Experience supporting bioinformatics workflows
Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with infrastructure automation tools
Understanding of scientific computing software and frameworks
Previous experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industries
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
ITIL certification
Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, or similar)
Experience with GxP compliance
Experience with pharmaceutical industry regulations
Previous experience managing technical debt in regulated environments
18/11/2025
Full time
Position Summary
We're seeking an Associate Director, IT Infrastructure to lead and transform our scientific computing environment in support of our cutting-edge gene therapy research. This senior leadership position will drive the strategy and execution of research computing initiatives, working in close partnership with our Bioinformatics, AI/ML, and Global IT Infrastructure teams. The role focuses specifically on advancing our scientific computing capabilities through operational excellence, while ensuring our research teams can maximize the value of our high-performance computing investments.
As a key member of the technology leadership team, this position will be responsible for the day-to-day operations and strategic evolution of our research computing environment. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in scientific computing with strong business acumen to deliver innovative solutions that accelerate our research mission. While Global IT Infrastructure maintains our enterprise technology foundation, this role focuses exclusively on the specialized computing needs of our scientific teams, including high-performance computing, GPU-accelerated workflows, and research data management.
Job Responsibilities
Serve as the primary local IT Infrastructure contact for Edinburgh's Bioinformatics and AI/ML teams
Manage and optimize scientific computing infrastructure, including GPU clusters, high-performance storage systems, and virtualized environments
Collaborate with global IT teams to ensure infrastructure alignment with scientific computing needs
Lead technical planning and implementation of infrastructure improvements
Provide technical guidance on architecture decisions affecting scientific workflows
Manage and optimize WEKA storage systems and VSphere virtual environments
Support Linux-based scientific computing environments, leveraging managed services as appropriate
Implement and maintain monitoring solutions for complex computing environments
Participate in capacity planning and performance optimization initiatives
Drive infrastructure automation and continuous improvement
Manage relationships with vendors and technical partners
Vendor & Contract Management:
Manage third-party Linux support contract and contractor relationships
Define and monitor service level agreements
Ensure contractor compliance with company security policies
Review and approve contractor work
Manage vendor performance and escalations
Security & Compliance:
Act as primary point of contact for parent company security audits
Develop and maintain security compliance documentation
Coordinate and respond to penetration testing activities
Implement security recommendations and remediation plans
Ensure infrastructure meets corporate security standards
Participate in security incident response planning
Business Continuity:
Lead disaster recovery planning for scientific computing infrastructure
Coordinate and execute DR testing
Maintain DR documentation and procedures
Develop and maintain business continuity plans
Ensure RPO/RTO objectives are met
Financial Planning & Technical Debt:
Develop long-term capital planning for infrastructure
Manage infrastructure budget and forecasting for AskBio European locations
Identify and track technical debt
Create remediation plans for technical debt
Provide cost-benefit analysis for infrastructure investments
Manage infrastructure lifecycle planning
Develop business cases for infrastructure improvements
Key Competencies:
Technical:
Infrastructure architecture and design
Performance optimization
Problem-solving and troubleshooting
Security best practices
Technical documentation
Business & Management:
Contract negotiation and management
Budget planning and control
Risk management
Audit response and compliance
Strategic planning
Vendor management
Cost-benefit analysis
Interpersonal:
Strong communication skills
Stakeholder management
Team collaboration
Conflict resolution
Customer service orientation
Ability to bridge technical and scientific domains
Leadership:
Technical leadership
Project management
Mentoring and knowledge transfer
Change management
Strategic thinking
Impact Metrics: Success in this role will be measured by:
Infrastructure stability and performance improvements
Stakeholder satisfaction levels
Project delivery effectiveness
Technical problem resolution metrics
Team collaboration effectiveness
Innovation and process improvements
Note: This position requires occasional travel to other company locations and may require some out-of-hours support during critical maintenance windows or emergencies.
This role represents a critical position in our organization, bridging technical expertise with scientific computing needs while fostering strong working relationships between global teams.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering roles
Experience with high-performance computing environments
Proven experience supporting GPU-accelerated computing environments
Strong understanding of storage systems and networking
Experience with infrastructure monitoring and optimization tools
Demonstrated ability to work with scientific computing workflows
Experience managing vendor relationships and contracts
Knowledge of IT security and compliance requirements
Experience with disaster recovery planning and testing
Understanding of IT financial planning and budgeting
Experience with audit responses and compliance documentation
Strong experience with Linux administration and engineering
Extensive knowledge of virtualization technologies, particularly VSphere
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills
Experience with WEKA storage systems
Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure requirements
Experience supporting bioinformatics workflows
Familiarity with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with infrastructure automation tools
Understanding of scientific computing software and frameworks
Previous experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industries
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
ITIL certification
Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, or similar)
Experience with GxP compliance
Experience with pharmaceutical industry regulations
Previous experience managing technical debt in regulated environments
Acorn Insurance and Financial Services Limited
Liverpool
We are looking for an innovative, broadly experienced all round developer with demonstrable business acumen and team leadership skills, to act as the main technical point to drive forward technical solutions as required for our Private Lines division (Private Car and Commercial Vehicle). Much of this will be web based and / or mobile solutions.
The Technical Lead requires direct working relationships with key business owners, their proxies and project managers responsible for driving forward a particular business division
A successful candidate may be more highly front end or more back end experienced – which is OK, but you must have actively contributed to complex product development solutions with full engagement across multiple areas of technical specialism so is able to fully understand the roles, relationships and dependencies that each of each of these disciplines characterise.
Job Title: Technical Business Lead
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Liverpool City Centre, Hybrid working available
Salary: £70,000-£85,000 DOE
What you will be doing:
Developing new and enhancing existing user-facing solutions
Providing technical guidance, decision making and leadership of a delivery team comprising product owners, BA’s, PM’s, front end devs, back end dev, database developers, digital analysts, QA technicians
Ensuring DevOps Epics, pbi’s, tasks, feature flagging, Assurance criteria and all testing strategies align with company standards
Ensuring system are well documented and tested for resilience / failover / auto scaling as specified
Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
Ensuring high quality software product delivery to timescales with reliable estimates and actual effort recorded
Work with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure common understanding of technical approaches to architecture and implementation
Collaborating with all other technical teams proactively and with consideration of priorities and workloads, working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team to reach team goals
Ensure mandated ‘core systems’ upgrades are appropriately managed
Liaise with 3rd parties as appropriate depending on product requirements
Provide BAU bug handling, hot fix deployment as and when required
Putting security and performance at the heart of all products and processes
What we are looking for:
Capable of advising on modern, secure, technical solutions to achieve product owner goals
Highly proficient in either front end or back end modern technology tooling and coding standards, especially react, react Native, Next JS, C# dot Net, Event driven systems, Azure Devops, SOLID and clean architecture patterns
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
Backed C#, dotNET, VS Core development
Thorough understanding of front end typescript frameworks and core principles
Solid understanding of modern specifications when developing components.
Experience with the React Material UI Framework and an eye for design and understanding UI/UX practices
Experience working with REST APIs and webhooks
Knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
Strong development experience in microservice based enterprise architecture, SOLID principles, clean architecture, Azure service Bus, RabbitMQ, Mass transit, MediatR
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth etc
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Understanding of popular front-end development tools such as Yarn, Webpack, Vitjs, StoryBook, Jest, Eslint, Prettier, Husky, etc.
Good awareness of logging and alerting strategies and tooling (e.g. loki/Grafana)
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
Good understanding of Google Adwords, GLCID’s, Tag Manager for tracking conversion
Solid experience of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps
About Acorn Insurance With over 40 years of experience, Acorn Insurance is a specialist provider dedicated to helping individuals secure motor insurance across the UK. We proudly serve more than 50,000 customers, ensuring they find policies that meet their needs and provide the peace of mind that comes with high-quality cover.
At Acorn Insurance, we offer comprehensive training and continuous in-house coaching. You'll receive in-depth, FCA-regulated industry knowledge and all the tools necessary to grow your career with us.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels respected and valued. As a Disability Confident Level 1 and Level 2 employer, we ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive, encouraging our people to bring their best selves to work every day.
The Acorn Group has been recognised as a Great Place to Work for 2024/5. A record number of employees participated in our survey, overwhelmingly highlighting our welcoming and supportive atmosphere as an excellent place to build a career. We are committed to continuous improvement and have ambitious plans for 2025.
Why Acorn Insurance? Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Some of the "your tomorrow" benefits you will receive include: Wellbeing:
Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)
Enhanced paternity pay and 16 weeks full maternity pay.
Colleague Assistance programme offers a suite of wellbeing services such as:
6 Free Counselling sessions per year
Unlimited access to a telephone councillor 24/7
Access to a free 4-week programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a trained therapist mentor.
Network of internal qualified mental health first aiders are available to provide support to colleagues.
Financial:
A core level of life assurance with the option to increase cover via salary sacrifice and add your spouse/partner
Ability to access your earnings before payday via Dayforce Wallet.
Company pension scheme
Refer a friend scheme with a £250 bonus for every colleague recommended on passing their probation period.
Access to a flexible benefits platform including an annual flex pot allowance to spend on over 15 benefits of your choice.
Ability to give back. You can opt into donating money to charity to climate positive organisations directly from your salary.
Reward, Recognition and Culture :
Long Service Award paid on 5,10- and 15-years’ service
A reward and recognition hub to celebrate and reward colleagues and peers.
Consistent and engaging company events including company awards, competitions and charity fundraisers.
Budgets for department leaders to use for social and engagement events. Please visit out website to view more of our excellent work benefits!
All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard. Unfortunately, due to the length of training and complexity of the role, we can only accept applications from candidates who have at least one year remaining on their (Graduate/ Post study work) visa. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorships. At Acorn, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and working environment to accommodate individual requirements. Whether it’s modifying equipment, adjusting working hours, or providing additional support, we aim to ensure all employees can perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know during the application or interview process, and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
25/04/2025
Full time
We are looking for an innovative, broadly experienced all round developer with demonstrable business acumen and team leadership skills, to act as the main technical point to drive forward technical solutions as required for our Private Lines division (Private Car and Commercial Vehicle). Much of this will be web based and / or mobile solutions.
The Technical Lead requires direct working relationships with key business owners, their proxies and project managers responsible for driving forward a particular business division
A successful candidate may be more highly front end or more back end experienced – which is OK, but you must have actively contributed to complex product development solutions with full engagement across multiple areas of technical specialism so is able to fully understand the roles, relationships and dependencies that each of each of these disciplines characterise.
Job Title: Technical Business Lead
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Liverpool City Centre, Hybrid working available
Salary: £70,000-£85,000 DOE
What you will be doing:
Developing new and enhancing existing user-facing solutions
Providing technical guidance, decision making and leadership of a delivery team comprising product owners, BA’s, PM’s, front end devs, back end dev, database developers, digital analysts, QA technicians
Ensuring DevOps Epics, pbi’s, tasks, feature flagging, Assurance criteria and all testing strategies align with company standards
Ensuring system are well documented and tested for resilience / failover / auto scaling as specified
Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
Ensuring high quality software product delivery to timescales with reliable estimates and actual effort recorded
Work with multiple internal stakeholders to ensure common understanding of technical approaches to architecture and implementation
Collaborating with all other technical teams proactively and with consideration of priorities and workloads, working collaboratively in a multi disciplinary team to reach team goals
Ensure mandated ‘core systems’ upgrades are appropriately managed
Liaise with 3rd parties as appropriate depending on product requirements
Provide BAU bug handling, hot fix deployment as and when required
Putting security and performance at the heart of all products and processes
What we are looking for:
Capable of advising on modern, secure, technical solutions to achieve product owner goals
Highly proficient in either front end or back end modern technology tooling and coding standards, especially react, react Native, Next JS, C# dot Net, Event driven systems, Azure Devops, SOLID and clean architecture patterns
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
Backed C#, dotNET, VS Core development
Thorough understanding of front end typescript frameworks and core principles
Solid understanding of modern specifications when developing components.
Experience with the React Material UI Framework and an eye for design and understanding UI/UX practices
Experience working with REST APIs and webhooks
Knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
Strong development experience in microservice based enterprise architecture, SOLID principles, clean architecture, Azure service Bus, RabbitMQ, Mass transit, MediatR
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth etc
Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools
Understanding of popular front-end development tools such as Yarn, Webpack, Vitjs, StoryBook, Jest, Eslint, Prettier, Husky, etc.
Good awareness of logging and alerting strategies and tooling (e.g. loki/Grafana)
Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git
Good understanding of Google Adwords, GLCID’s, Tag Manager for tracking conversion
Solid experience of CI/CD pipelines in DevOps
About Acorn Insurance With over 40 years of experience, Acorn Insurance is a specialist provider dedicated to helping individuals secure motor insurance across the UK. We proudly serve more than 50,000 customers, ensuring they find policies that meet their needs and provide the peace of mind that comes with high-quality cover.
At Acorn Insurance, we offer comprehensive training and continuous in-house coaching. You'll receive in-depth, FCA-regulated industry knowledge and all the tools necessary to grow your career with us.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels respected and valued. As a Disability Confident Level 1 and Level 2 employer, we ensure our workplace is accessible and inclusive, encouraging our people to bring their best selves to work every day.
The Acorn Group has been recognised as a Great Place to Work for 2024/5. A record number of employees participated in our survey, overwhelmingly highlighting our welcoming and supportive atmosphere as an excellent place to build a career. We are committed to continuous improvement and have ambitious plans for 2025.
Why Acorn Insurance? Acorn Insurance want to give you more than a job, we want to give you a purpose and a career. So, what can we offer you as an employer? Some of the "your tomorrow" benefits you will receive include: Wellbeing:
Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement starting at 31 days and potentially increasing to 35 days per year depending on grade & length of service (including bank holidays)
Enhanced paternity pay and 16 weeks full maternity pay.
Colleague Assistance programme offers a suite of wellbeing services such as:
6 Free Counselling sessions per year
Unlimited access to a telephone councillor 24/7
Access to a free 4-week programme of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with a trained therapist mentor.
Network of internal qualified mental health first aiders are available to provide support to colleagues.
Financial:
A core level of life assurance with the option to increase cover via salary sacrifice and add your spouse/partner
Ability to access your earnings before payday via Dayforce Wallet.
Company pension scheme
Refer a friend scheme with a £250 bonus for every colleague recommended on passing their probation period.
Access to a flexible benefits platform including an annual flex pot allowance to spend on over 15 benefits of your choice.
Ability to give back. You can opt into donating money to charity to climate positive organisations directly from your salary.
Reward, Recognition and Culture :
Long Service Award paid on 5,10- and 15-years’ service
A reward and recognition hub to celebrate and reward colleagues and peers.
Consistent and engaging company events including company awards, competitions and charity fundraisers.
Budgets for department leaders to use for social and engagement events. Please visit out website to view more of our excellent work benefits!
All roles are subject to DBS and Financial checks, any offer made will be conditional until checks are completed to a satisfactory standard. Unfortunately, due to the length of training and complexity of the role, we can only accept applications from candidates who have at least one year remaining on their (Graduate/ Post study work) visa. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorships. At Acorn, we are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. We recognise that candidates may have specific needs and are happy to consider reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process and working environment to accommodate individual requirements. Whether it’s modifying equipment, adjusting working hours, or providing additional support, we aim to ensure all employees can perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please let us know during the application or interview process, and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.
Data Architect - Hybrid - London - £70,000 A public-facing regulatory organisation is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support the design, governance, and evolution of its enterprise data landscape across Microsoft D365 and a modern medallion architecture. This role sits within the Digital Services team and plays a key part in shaping data models, ensuring data quality, and guiding the organisation toward a consistent, well-governed data future. The Role Designing conceptual and logical data models to support new projects and enhancements. Leading Data Architecture Assessments and applying the organisation's Data Architecture Framework. Maintaining and governing the enterprise data model, including taxonomy, ontology, lineage, and metadata. Championing good data architecture practices across the organisation. Requirements: Microsoft background (SSIS, Dataverse, sharepoint) Microsoft Azure and/or Fabric Understanding of transactional, Kimball and OBT methodologies Experience Proven experience in data architecture Demonstrable ability to translate business and technical requirements into robust data architecture solutions Experience designing transitional architectures and handling security considerations across architectural domains.
12/03/2026
Full time
Data Architect - Hybrid - London - £70,000 A public-facing regulatory organisation is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support the design, governance, and evolution of its enterprise data landscape across Microsoft D365 and a modern medallion architecture. This role sits within the Digital Services team and plays a key part in shaping data models, ensuring data quality, and guiding the organisation toward a consistent, well-governed data future. The Role Designing conceptual and logical data models to support new projects and enhancements. Leading Data Architecture Assessments and applying the organisation's Data Architecture Framework. Maintaining and governing the enterprise data model, including taxonomy, ontology, lineage, and metadata. Championing good data architecture practices across the organisation. Requirements: Microsoft background (SSIS, Dataverse, sharepoint) Microsoft Azure and/or Fabric Understanding of transactional, Kimball and OBT methodologies Experience Proven experience in data architecture Demonstrable ability to translate business and technical requirements into robust data architecture solutions Experience designing transitional architectures and handling security considerations across architectural domains.
Endur Architect | Hybrid (UK) | 12 Month Contract | Inside IR35 | £700 £1000 per day Templeton & Partners are seeking an experienced Endur Architect to take ownership of complex, enterprise level architecture across a major business segment or global domain. Experience delivering solutions within commodity, energy, FX, or trading environments is highly desirable. Key Responsibilities Act as the lead architect for a business segment or global architectural area Own end to end technical design , including integration, hosting, and security Solve significant, complex, non routine technical challenges with authority Translate global industry practices into actionable architectural recommendations Drive simplification and modernisation across the IT architecture landscape Serve as a recognised expert, advising senior business leadership Influence business process and data redesign with Process Owners and Data Definition Owners Mentor and develop architects across the organisation Architect and deliver solutions within commodity trading, energy trading, FX, or financial trading project environments Mandatory Skills Strong stakeholder management with proactive, cross team engagement Excellent written and verbal communication, tailored to diverse audiences Strong business acumen with the ability to link architecture decisions to business value Deep experience in Endur and enterprise scale solution architecture Background in commodity, energy, FX, or trading project delivery For more information or to be considered, please reply with your CV and best contact number.
12/03/2026
Contractor
Endur Architect | Hybrid (UK) | 12 Month Contract | Inside IR35 | £700 £1000 per day Templeton & Partners are seeking an experienced Endur Architect to take ownership of complex, enterprise level architecture across a major business segment or global domain. Experience delivering solutions within commodity, energy, FX, or trading environments is highly desirable. Key Responsibilities Act as the lead architect for a business segment or global architectural area Own end to end technical design , including integration, hosting, and security Solve significant, complex, non routine technical challenges with authority Translate global industry practices into actionable architectural recommendations Drive simplification and modernisation across the IT architecture landscape Serve as a recognised expert, advising senior business leadership Influence business process and data redesign with Process Owners and Data Definition Owners Mentor and develop architects across the organisation Architect and deliver solutions within commodity trading, energy trading, FX, or financial trading project environments Mandatory Skills Strong stakeholder management with proactive, cross team engagement Excellent written and verbal communication, tailored to diverse audiences Strong business acumen with the ability to link architecture decisions to business value Deep experience in Endur and enterprise scale solution architecture Background in commodity, energy, FX, or trading project delivery For more information or to be considered, please reply with your CV and best contact number.
AWS Technical Lead Our client is looking for an AWS Technical Lead. You will have indepth experience of AWS. You will analyse the client's technology landscape, identify opportunities for improvement, and define architectures that support long-term digital transformation. Skills: - Strong software engineering foundation, with practical knowledge of modern application architectures (eg, microservices, APIs, distributed systems). - Proven ability to design and document architectures using visual modelling techniques such as C4, UML, and data flow diagrams. - Hands-on experience with AWS, including Infrastructure as Code, platform services, networking, and security controls. - Modern languages and frameworks including Ruby, Java, and Python - AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, platform as a service tooling - Engineering practices such as DDD, TDD, CI/CD, automated testing and Git workflows The role is for 3 months initially with extensions likely. The work is based from home. To be considered for the position please send your latest CV over. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. A multiple award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over consecutive years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.
12/03/2026
Contractor
AWS Technical Lead Our client is looking for an AWS Technical Lead. You will have indepth experience of AWS. You will analyse the client's technology landscape, identify opportunities for improvement, and define architectures that support long-term digital transformation. Skills: - Strong software engineering foundation, with practical knowledge of modern application architectures (eg, microservices, APIs, distributed systems). - Proven ability to design and document architectures using visual modelling techniques such as C4, UML, and data flow diagrams. - Hands-on experience with AWS, including Infrastructure as Code, platform services, networking, and security controls. - Modern languages and frameworks including Ruby, Java, and Python - AWS cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, platform as a service tooling - Engineering practices such as DDD, TDD, CI/CD, automated testing and Git workflows The role is for 3 months initially with extensions likely. The work is based from home. To be considered for the position please send your latest CV over. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. A multiple award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over consecutive years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.
Enterprise Architect (Mortgage Sector) | Contract | Milton Keynes (Hybrid, occasional on-site) I'm hiring an Enterprise Architect to work on a a project in the Mortgage space. You'll get the chance to work on an exciting project for a leading global consultancy, spanning multiple countries, with some of the biggest end-client names. You'll be part of a company that is leading digital transformation across mining, AI, cloud, and software engineering! Experience Required: APIs and Integration Enterprise Architecture Governance Mortgage Mortgage Loan Life Cycle Control Mortgage Regulatory Compliance & Reporting Mortgages Servicing BONUS: Retail Banking Contract Details: Up to £695 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella) Contract running initially from mid-March until late September 2026 Visa sponsorship is not available, must have a right to work in the UK Working set-up: Milton Keynes, Adhoc (Occasional office visits) If this sounds like you, please apply or send your CV directly
12/03/2026
Contractor
Enterprise Architect (Mortgage Sector) | Contract | Milton Keynes (Hybrid, occasional on-site) I'm hiring an Enterprise Architect to work on a a project in the Mortgage space. You'll get the chance to work on an exciting project for a leading global consultancy, spanning multiple countries, with some of the biggest end-client names. You'll be part of a company that is leading digital transformation across mining, AI, cloud, and software engineering! Experience Required: APIs and Integration Enterprise Architecture Governance Mortgage Mortgage Loan Life Cycle Control Mortgage Regulatory Compliance & Reporting Mortgages Servicing BONUS: Retail Banking Contract Details: Up to £695 per day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella) Contract running initially from mid-March until late September 2026 Visa sponsorship is not available, must have a right to work in the UK Working set-up: Milton Keynes, Adhoc (Occasional office visits) If this sounds like you, please apply or send your CV directly
Location Westminster, London and Leeds About the job Job summary The Technical & Security Architect is a key member of the EA Team and is responsible for the architecture and security of the team's domains monitoring platform and to ensure that the .gov.uk registry provider delivers a resilient service. The UK Public Sector depends on internet domain name spaces such as ".gov.uk", and you will ensure these name spaces remain stable, trusted, well managed and resistant to compromise. You will bring together your proven technical and cyber expertise with business transformation where branding, government policy and law all play a part through the creation of secure technical solution designs ensuring all our services and infrastructure are secure by design. It is essential that you are positive, proactive and collaborative with a commitment to providing excellent customer service. Job description The key responsibilities and deliverables for this post are working with your UKEF colleagues and customers to ensure that UKEF is able to meet evolving customer demand using a secure, scalable and robust enterprise architecture blueprint. The main activities of your role will be: Designing secure systems - you can design and review system architectures through the development of patterns and principles. Security technology - you can demonstrate strong knowledge of system architectures. You can understand and articulate the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future designs and systems, and how easy or difficult it will be to exploit these vulnerabilities. You can be recognised as an expert by peers in the broader security industry. Communicating between the technical and non-technical - you can identify the needs of business and technical stakeholders. You can effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can demonstrate excellent communication skills and can manage difficult conversations or negotiations. Making and guiding decisions - you can make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. You can resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions. Strategy - you can apply strategy, using and challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can provide guidance. Turning business problems into secure technical designs - you can design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can simultaneously work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service. Understanding the whole context - you can understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work. You can see how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context. You can consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale. The public core of the internet - you will have detailed and extensive experience of naming and numbering systems, cryptographic mechanisms, packet routing and common protocols and how the domain name system (DNS) works You will also have detailed and extensive expertise of at least two of the following: managing domains for a large, distributed and federated organisation how domains are used to support internet services and their security different ways that a domain vulnerability can be exploited, and how to prevent them developing tools that interact with domain records This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs. Person specification Qualifications Relevant degree in associated Computer Science subject or equivalent demonstrable professional experience (A, I) Recognised architectural qualification e.g. TOGAF, BCS (A) Knowledge Demonstrable knowledge of the creation of and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models (A, I, P) Demonstrable knowledge of security frameworks, standards and regulatory requirements e.g. GDPR, PCI DSS (A, I) Skills/Ability Ability to demonstrate the creation of and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models. (I, P, T) Ability to create and deliver enterprise architectures. (A, P, I.) High level stakeholder relationship management. (A, I) Ability to provide guidance to development teams, mentor team members, foster professional growth, and create an inclusive and collaborative environment. (A, I) Experience Leadership and management in an enterprise architecture function. (A, I) Demonstrable extensive experience in the field of technical and security architecture, covering a wide range of activities, aligning to the technology, digital and data requirements of the role; to ensure business priorities, value for money and risk are all considerations. (I, P, T) Experience of working across the business to ensure strategic needs are captured within the vision and roadmaps of the enterprise architecture. (A, I) Experience of advising and developing the future state architecture of an organisation to meet strategic needs, including a working knowledge of cloud technologies. (A, I) Experience of applying best practice Data Management methods, to develop data quality metrics to optimise system performance. (A, I) Experience of applying best in practice architectural concepts and processes, including working with relevant tooling that supports enterprise architecture development, mapping and monitoring. (A, I) Qualifications • Relevant degree in associated Computer Science subject or equivalent demonstrable professional experience (A, I) • Recognised architectural qualification e.g. TOGAF, BCS (A) Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Seeing the Big Picture Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Technical questions where you will be assessed across your technical expertise and acumen, in relation to the essential criteria. Presentation - the topic will be agreed by UKEF and shared with the relevant candidates ahead of the interview
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Westminster, London and Leeds About the job Job summary The Technical & Security Architect is a key member of the EA Team and is responsible for the architecture and security of the team's domains monitoring platform and to ensure that the .gov.uk registry provider delivers a resilient service. The UK Public Sector depends on internet domain name spaces such as ".gov.uk", and you will ensure these name spaces remain stable, trusted, well managed and resistant to compromise. You will bring together your proven technical and cyber expertise with business transformation where branding, government policy and law all play a part through the creation of secure technical solution designs ensuring all our services and infrastructure are secure by design. It is essential that you are positive, proactive and collaborative with a commitment to providing excellent customer service. Job description The key responsibilities and deliverables for this post are working with your UKEF colleagues and customers to ensure that UKEF is able to meet evolving customer demand using a secure, scalable and robust enterprise architecture blueprint. The main activities of your role will be: Designing secure systems - you can design and review system architectures through the development of patterns and principles. Security technology - you can demonstrate strong knowledge of system architectures. You can understand and articulate the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future designs and systems, and how easy or difficult it will be to exploit these vulnerabilities. You can be recognised as an expert by peers in the broader security industry. Communicating between the technical and non-technical - you can identify the needs of business and technical stakeholders. You can effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can demonstrate excellent communication skills and can manage difficult conversations or negotiations. Making and guiding decisions - you can make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase. You can resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions. Strategy - you can apply strategy, using and challenging patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. You can provide guidance. Turning business problems into secure technical designs - you can design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You can simultaneously work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service. Understanding the whole context - you can understand trends and practices outside your team and how these will impact your work. You can see how your work fits into the broader strategy and historical context. You can consider the patterns and interactions on a larger scale. The public core of the internet - you will have detailed and extensive experience of naming and numbering systems, cryptographic mechanisms, packet routing and common protocols and how the domain name system (DNS) works You will also have detailed and extensive expertise of at least two of the following: managing domains for a large, distributed and federated organisation how domains are used to support internet services and their security different ways that a domain vulnerability can be exploited, and how to prevent them developing tools that interact with domain records This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs. Person specification Qualifications Relevant degree in associated Computer Science subject or equivalent demonstrable professional experience (A, I) Recognised architectural qualification e.g. TOGAF, BCS (A) Knowledge Demonstrable knowledge of the creation of and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models (A, I, P) Demonstrable knowledge of security frameworks, standards and regulatory requirements e.g. GDPR, PCI DSS (A, I) Skills/Ability Ability to demonstrate the creation of and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models. (I, P, T) Ability to create and deliver enterprise architectures. (A, P, I.) High level stakeholder relationship management. (A, I) Ability to provide guidance to development teams, mentor team members, foster professional growth, and create an inclusive and collaborative environment. (A, I) Experience Leadership and management in an enterprise architecture function. (A, I) Demonstrable extensive experience in the field of technical and security architecture, covering a wide range of activities, aligning to the technology, digital and data requirements of the role; to ensure business priorities, value for money and risk are all considerations. (I, P, T) Experience of working across the business to ensure strategic needs are captured within the vision and roadmaps of the enterprise architecture. (A, I) Experience of advising and developing the future state architecture of an organisation to meet strategic needs, including a working knowledge of cloud technologies. (A, I) Experience of applying best practice Data Management methods, to develop data quality metrics to optimise system performance. (A, I) Experience of applying best in practice architectural concepts and processes, including working with relevant tooling that supports enterprise architecture development, mapping and monitoring. (A, I) Qualifications • Relevant degree in associated Computer Science subject or equivalent demonstrable professional experience (A, I) • Recognised architectural qualification e.g. TOGAF, BCS (A) Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Seeing the Big Picture Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Technical questions where you will be assessed across your technical expertise and acumen, in relation to the essential criteria. Presentation - the topic will be agreed by UKEF and shared with the relevant candidates ahead of the interview
Location Bristol Regional Centre - 3 Glass Wharf Cardiff Regional Centre - Ty William Morgan East Kilbride - Queensway House Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House Glasgow Regional Centre - Atlantic Square Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place Liverpool Regional Centre - Water Street Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey Salford - Trinity Bridge House Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue Telford - Plaza 1 and 2 Worthing - Teville Gate House Please note that due to workforce controls, Stratford is only available to existing HMRC staff in this location. HMRC staff based in Reading can also apply to move to Stratford in line with Migration path. HMRC staff based in 100PS can also apply to move to Stratford. About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you. Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. HMRC has one of the UK's largest IT estates ranging from innovative data analytics platforms to complex legacy systems. We are undergoing a major transformation programme, which includes a major investment in digitisation. HMRC's IT Division, known as the Chief Digital Information Officer Group (CDIO), has many delivery groups addressing parts of our digital transformation agenda; this vacancy sits within Data Platform Services (DPS). DPS was set up 4 years ago as a result of our desire to take control of building and running our critical data capabilities, doubling in size to 600 people in the last 18 months, we're targeting further growth driven by increased demand for our services. We are recruiting for two Technical Architects to work within our Reporting & Dashboarding team, and our Advanced Analytics team with each role acting as a subject matter expert on the products and related design patterns used within their specific areas. Job description Understand and translate business needs into long-term solutions. Create solution designs, producing relevant documentation, ensuring they are aligned with departmental data and security standards and any broader project architecture. Apply data modelling techniques against a range of database technologies to establish, modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components. Produce data mapping documents, showing traceability across data environments. Mentoring of a Junior Technical Architect may be required. Person specification Demonstrable experience of working successfully in either Data Analysis or Solution Design roles with specific focus on Data Engineering. Knowledge of a range of Data Products, in the areas of data visualisation, or advanced analytics. Experience of successfully creating and implementing designs for data centric solutions. Broad understanding of cloud-hosted and cloud native services, with deep experience in data security. Experience of RDBMS and its schema definition. Plus hands-on experience in relational and multidimensional data modelling. Solid grasp of Big Data and NoSQL solutions in a data analytics technology landscape. Solid experience of data governance approaches and technologies. Essential Criteria: Ability to work in an agile delivery and multi-supplier large organisation. Data reporting tools, including some or all of the following: Pentaho Business Analytics, SAS Enterprise Guide / Enterprise Miner, SAS Visual Analytics, PowerBI, R Studio and R Shiny. Experience with AI and Cognitive services. Data transfer methodology including the likes of sFTP and FTPs, JDBC, Flume, Kafka, Different languages, data formats and APIs, SOAP / Restful services including JSON, XML. Security approaches and tools, e.g. encryption, tokenisation. Use of various collaboration tools including JIRA, Confluence etc. Experience using an Architecture Repository and adhering to its use and policy. Experience working on a Cloud environment such as AWS, Azure. Desirable Criteria Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and with impact to technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrate the ability to work with minimal direction in a large often challenging environment to influence and drive change internally and with 3rd party suppliers. Be a team player, who coaches and mentors aspiring colleagues into motivated and delivery focused individuals.
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Bristol Regional Centre - 3 Glass Wharf Cardiff Regional Centre - Ty William Morgan East Kilbride - Queensway House Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House Glasgow Regional Centre - Atlantic Square Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place Liverpool Regional Centre - Water Street Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey Salford - Trinity Bridge House Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue Telford - Plaza 1 and 2 Worthing - Teville Gate House Please note that due to workforce controls, Stratford is only available to existing HMRC staff in this location. HMRC staff based in Reading can also apply to move to Stratford in line with Migration path. HMRC staff based in 100PS can also apply to move to Stratford. About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you. Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. HMRC has one of the UK's largest IT estates ranging from innovative data analytics platforms to complex legacy systems. We are undergoing a major transformation programme, which includes a major investment in digitisation. HMRC's IT Division, known as the Chief Digital Information Officer Group (CDIO), has many delivery groups addressing parts of our digital transformation agenda; this vacancy sits within Data Platform Services (DPS). DPS was set up 4 years ago as a result of our desire to take control of building and running our critical data capabilities, doubling in size to 600 people in the last 18 months, we're targeting further growth driven by increased demand for our services. We are recruiting for two Technical Architects to work within our Reporting & Dashboarding team, and our Advanced Analytics team with each role acting as a subject matter expert on the products and related design patterns used within their specific areas. Job description Understand and translate business needs into long-term solutions. Create solution designs, producing relevant documentation, ensuring they are aligned with departmental data and security standards and any broader project architecture. Apply data modelling techniques against a range of database technologies to establish, modify or maintain a data structure and its associated components. Produce data mapping documents, showing traceability across data environments. Mentoring of a Junior Technical Architect may be required. Person specification Demonstrable experience of working successfully in either Data Analysis or Solution Design roles with specific focus on Data Engineering. Knowledge of a range of Data Products, in the areas of data visualisation, or advanced analytics. Experience of successfully creating and implementing designs for data centric solutions. Broad understanding of cloud-hosted and cloud native services, with deep experience in data security. Experience of RDBMS and its schema definition. Plus hands-on experience in relational and multidimensional data modelling. Solid grasp of Big Data and NoSQL solutions in a data analytics technology landscape. Solid experience of data governance approaches and technologies. Essential Criteria: Ability to work in an agile delivery and multi-supplier large organisation. Data reporting tools, including some or all of the following: Pentaho Business Analytics, SAS Enterprise Guide / Enterprise Miner, SAS Visual Analytics, PowerBI, R Studio and R Shiny. Experience with AI and Cognitive services. Data transfer methodology including the likes of sFTP and FTPs, JDBC, Flume, Kafka, Different languages, data formats and APIs, SOAP / Restful services including JSON, XML. Security approaches and tools, e.g. encryption, tokenisation. Use of various collaboration tools including JIRA, Confluence etc. Experience using an Architecture Repository and adhering to its use and policy. Experience working on a Cloud environment such as AWS, Azure. Desirable Criteria Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and with impact to technical and non-technical audiences. Demonstrate the ability to work with minimal direction in a large often challenging environment to influence and drive change internally and with 3rd party suppliers. Be a team player, who coaches and mentors aspiring colleagues into motivated and delivery focused individuals.
Location Newport NP10 8QQ About the job Job summary Senior Dynamics Developer The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers systems need to be developed, improved, and maintained. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the core applications are reviewed and continually improved. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Technical Be responsible for the design, coding, configuration, testing and documentation of large, complex or mission critical applications in a cloud first environment using Dynamics and Power Apps in MS Azure Configure and customise both model model-driven and canvas apps Develop Power Automate Flows via connectors to the Dataverse and other data sources Develop PowerApps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality Embrace a continuous improvement ethos Responsible for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF) Person specification As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by providing the following: Behavioural Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results) Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team) Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services Provide project / delivery management support when required Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team Applies "progress over perfection" principle Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen Personal and Team Development Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values Guides more junior members in their personal development Coaches and mentors' colleagues Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends Shares knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team and the business stakeholders Relevant Skills and Experience. Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile methodologies Advocate of DevOps principles Experience working in a Microsoft Azure Cloud first team Experience with Azure DevOps Essential Technical Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and/or PowerApps platform Has a deep understanding of architectural principals such as SOA and Micro-Services Technical aptitude Proficiency in one or more of these languages: C#, Python, JavaScript, Typescript Experience writing and implementing Unit Testing Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc. Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification. If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read E-mail: Telephone:
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Newport NP10 8QQ About the job Job summary Senior Dynamics Developer The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. To provide up to date services to our customers systems need to be developed, improved, and maintained. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring the core applications are reviewed and continually improved. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Technical Be responsible for the design, coding, configuration, testing and documentation of large, complex or mission critical applications in a cloud first environment using Dynamics and Power Apps in MS Azure Configure and customise both model model-driven and canvas apps Develop Power Automate Flows via connectors to the Dataverse and other data sources Develop PowerApps integrations with other Azure components such as Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to Assist in implementing toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality Embrace a continuous improvement ethos Responsible for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF) Person specification As a multi-skilled individual specialising in MS Dynamics and Power Apps, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by providing the following: Behavioural Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results) Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team) Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services Provide project / delivery management support when required Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team Applies "progress over perfection" principle Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen Personal and Team Development Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values Guides more junior members in their personal development Coaches and mentors' colleagues Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends Shares knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team and the business stakeholders Relevant Skills and Experience. Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and other Agile methodologies Advocate of DevOps principles Experience working in a Microsoft Azure Cloud first team Experience with Azure DevOps Essential Technical Experience of MS Dynamics CRM and/or PowerApps platform Has a deep understanding of architectural principals such as SOA and Micro-Services Technical aptitude Proficiency in one or more of these languages: C#, Python, JavaScript, Typescript Experience writing and implementing Unit Testing Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV. Please remove all identifying markers such as name, title, education institution etc. Make sure it clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person Specification. If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read E-mail: Telephone:
Location Newport NP10 8QQ About the job Job summary Senior Front End Developer The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined team using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the teams assigned deliverables. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual with strong front end and UX skills, you will have the opportunity to develop and mature your skills even further and extend your skills set with those typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Any back-end skills you have can also be utilised within this role. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Technical Be responsible for the design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical applications and solutions in a cloud first environment Build web based Front End interfaces interacting with RESTful APIs using React, Next JS and other web technologies Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Identify and manage problems, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF) Behavioural Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results) Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team) Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Work across a few multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services Provide project / delivery management support when required Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team Embrace a continuous improvement ethos Applies "progress over perfection" principle Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers on commitment Maintain inner composure, recovering quickly from setbacks and learning from the experience Highly driven and inspires others to move things along and make things happen Personal and Team Development Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values Guide more junior members in their personal development Coach and mentor colleagues Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends Person specification Essential Experience Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of a large projects Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile Experience of working with cloud technologies including Azure Working knowledge of Azure DevOps Experience with Git Advocate of DevOps principles Essential Technical Excellent understanding of React and experience with Next JS. Excellent understanding of Node JS Experience working with RESTful web services Has a good understanding of architectural principals with design patterns such as SOA and Micro-Services
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Newport NP10 8QQ About the job Job summary Senior Front End Developer The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined team using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the teams assigned deliverables. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Developer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual with strong front end and UX skills, you will have the opportunity to develop and mature your skills even further and extend your skills set with those typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. Any back-end skills you have can also be utilised within this role. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office . The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: Technical Be responsible for the design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical applications and solutions in a cloud first environment Build web based Front End interfaces interacting with RESTful APIs using React, Next JS and other web technologies Work closely with test engineers to reach a common understanding of acceptance criteria, the code base and test coverage Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Identify and manage problems, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Keeping an open mind and exploring innovative ways to solve problems, working in a fail-fast fashion to provide required functionality Proactively apply HMG IA technical security controls according to ISO 27001 & the Security Policy Framework (SPF) Behavioural Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results) Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team) Share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Work across a few multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services Provide project / delivery management support when required Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team Embrace a continuous improvement ethos Applies "progress over perfection" principle Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers on commitment Maintain inner composure, recovering quickly from setbacks and learning from the experience Highly driven and inspires others to move things along and make things happen Personal and Team Development Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values Guide more junior members in their personal development Coach and mentor colleagues Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends Person specification Essential Experience Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of a large projects Experienced with modern delivery models such as Scrum and Agile Experience of working with cloud technologies including Azure Working knowledge of Azure DevOps Experience with Git Advocate of DevOps principles Essential Technical Excellent understanding of React and experience with Next JS. Excellent understanding of Node JS Experience working with RESTful web services Has a good understanding of architectural principals with design patterns such as SOA and Micro-Services
Location Swansea About the job Job summary Do you have an understanding and experience working with infrastructure and cloud technologies? If so, we would love to hear from you! 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 and 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 . Job description We are looking for a Lead Technical Architect to join our dynamic and innovative workforce at an exciting and challenging time. The role holder will need to demonstrate the appetite and commitment to help drive the organisation through significant transformation programmes. You will work with several teams across the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) IT Services (ITS) Directorate as well as across the DVLA's business directorates to develop architectural patterns and solution designs. You will work collaboratively with ITS Engineering squads to deliver new solutions and help transition these into operational service. Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to: Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions. Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government. Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment. Provide mentoring within teams. Provide leadership to other architects. 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. For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process. Person specification You will have a solid Architectural and technical background having worked in an architectural or technical lead role to deliver enterprise-scale solutions. Required experience: Experience of UC and omni-channel contact centre solutions. Experience of networking concepts, LAN/WAN/WLAN. Experience of ENTRA active directory and O365. Experience of hybrid Active directory and ENTRA active directory. Knowledge of the key principles outlined in Microsoft's Azure Cloud Adoption Framework. Experience with data security principles and systems designed to protect sensitive data. Desire to create and maintain solution designs in an iterative and collaborative manner. Ability to think strategically about business, product and technical challenges. Excellent technical skills with the experience to be held accountable for technical aspects of delivering complex solutions, including end-to-end solution design, delivery governance, assurance and support for Engineers and Delivery Managers. Great interpersonal skills allowing you to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. You will be able to drive discussions with senior leaders across the agency as well as having the technical background that will enable you to easily interact and give guidance to software developers, testers and engineers.
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Swansea About the job Job summary Do you have an understanding and experience working with infrastructure and cloud technologies? If so, we would love to hear from you! 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 and 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 . Job description We are looking for a Lead Technical Architect to join our dynamic and innovative workforce at an exciting and challenging time. The role holder will need to demonstrate the appetite and commitment to help drive the organisation through significant transformation programmes. You will work with several teams across the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) IT Services (ITS) Directorate as well as across the DVLA's business directorates to develop architectural patterns and solution designs. You will work collaboratively with ITS Engineering squads to deliver new solutions and help transition these into operational service. Your responsibilities will include, but aren't limited to: Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions. Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government. Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment. Provide mentoring within teams. Provide leadership to other architects. 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. For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process. Person specification You will have a solid Architectural and technical background having worked in an architectural or technical lead role to deliver enterprise-scale solutions. Required experience: Experience of UC and omni-channel contact centre solutions. Experience of networking concepts, LAN/WAN/WLAN. Experience of ENTRA active directory and O365. Experience of hybrid Active directory and ENTRA active directory. Knowledge of the key principles outlined in Microsoft's Azure Cloud Adoption Framework. Experience with data security principles and systems designed to protect sensitive data. Desire to create and maintain solution designs in an iterative and collaborative manner. Ability to think strategically about business, product and technical challenges. Excellent technical skills with the experience to be held accountable for technical aspects of delivering complex solutions, including end-to-end solution design, delivery governance, assurance and support for Engineers and Delivery Managers. Great interpersonal skills allowing you to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. You will be able to drive discussions with senior leaders across the agency as well as having the technical background that will enable you to easily interact and give guidance to software developers, testers and engineers.
Location Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne About the job Job summary The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) is responsible for delivering a compensation scheme that has been long awaited by the infected blood community to provide financial compensation to victims of infected blood on a UK-wide basis. This role sits within our Data Operations team in the IBCA Data Directorate and will lead the team of data solution, and data architects that are focus on the design of the IBCA data platform and organisational wide data modelling. The Data Operations team is responsible for developing and running safe and secure data solutions that provide a single source of truth for those going through their compensation journey. They are designing and building a new data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and data management and intelligence products using Databricks and Quantexa. We are taking a product-centric approach treating data as a product and are building squads around our products, with a focus on paying compensation to those impacted by the infected blood scandal seamlessly. You will focus on designing scalable and flexible data solutions for data management processes (including data integration and master data management), ensuring data quality and continuous data publication to our consuming users and services, and driving a culture of problem statement driven design. Working at IBCA gives you a huge opportunity to make an impact on those who deserve compensation, and this role suits a candidate who can spearhead solutions from the ground up to take from ideation to reality so that data is an enabler to everything IBCA does. Job description As the Principle Data & Systems Architect for our data platform and products, you'll be critical to delivering the design of the IBCA data platform through technical solution and data architecture in addition to data modelling capabilities. You will mature the quality of our architecture practices and should be committed to delivering high-impact, secure data solutions to achieve IBCA's objectives. This post is within a data delivery setting, especially one focussed on AWS, Quantexa and Databricks. You will: Set the direction for data and systems architecture ensuring infrastructure is modular, resilient and aligned with business objectives Provide technical guidance for the development of designs across the data platform including integration and master data management encompassing secure by design principles such as 'privacy by design' and 'zero trust' architectures Ensure designs are scalable, secure and efficient and that they create systemic resilience of all data assets against emerging threats Lead efforts to standardise the enterprise data fabric streamlining ingestion patterns and integrating data from various sources of varying fidelity, ensuring a 'single source of truth' that promotes data consistency, accuracy, and quality Be responsible for data ontology ensuring that there are enterprise logical and physical data models embedded across the organisation to support operational efficiency and analytical capabilities, and these follow set data standards and data management policies Build and mentor a high-performing architecture function, fostering a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration. Help the data architecture practices thrive, you will call on your expertise in emerging data management approaches including on data centralisation and apply these to help the organisation deliver success Develop our internal data architecture capability by developing L&D routeways, shaping careers paths and recruiting talent to the organisation Provide leadership and guidance to the team, further developing your own architecture, delivery management and leadership skills Work with business stakeholders and across digital service teams, understanding their needs and translating them into high- and low-level architecture designs Work with industry partners to leverage the best of new and emerging tools and approaches Responsibilities Strategic Planning: Develop and execute the Data & Systems Architecture strategy. You will ensure the technical roadmap doesn't just store data, but actively powers business intelligence and AI readiness, aligning complex infrastructure with long-term organisational goals. Team Leadership: Use your expertise to build and maintain excellence in data & system architecture capabilities by building, leading, and mentoring a team of technical solution architects, data architects and modellers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture that bridges the gap between engineering and strategic business value. Data Platform Solution Design: Design and model robust, scalable, efficient and cost-effective data solutions for data ingestion, transformation, integration, publication and storage - and be the assurer of designs at architecture review boards such as Technical Design Authority. Data Quality: Ensure data quality and integrity across the data platform. Data Governance: Prescribe the level of data governance required, taking responsibility for assurance and make recommendations to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and security standards. System Interoperability: Define the standards for the Data Platform to ensure API-first architecture and microservices so they there is seamless data flow and system integration via data publication. Collaboration: Work closely with business teams to understand data requirements and recommend design choices and provide technical expertise; and partner with senior leaders to provide assurance on solutions as they transition between design, implementation and live. Person specification Essential Criteria Accomplished expert with extensive hands-on experience at a senior level of defining and implementing data and system architecture. You must have significant experience in designing AWS ecosystems that host data management systems and orchestrate data integration, data quality & transformation processes, data matching and master data management and data publication. (Lead essential criteria) Deep proficiency in architecting end-to-end data lifecycles. This includes the strategic application of Data Lakes, Lakehouses, and NoSQL/SQL environments, with a focus on system interoperability. Demonstrable experience in building or radically transforming data & system architecture functions from scratch, particularly within high-sensitivity or regulated environments (e.g. handling PII/sensitive personal data at scale). Expert-level knowledge of embedding GDPR, Cloud Security Principles, and Zero-Trust frameworks into the very fabric of data system designs, rather than treating them as "bolt-on" compliance tasks. Expert in managing the balance between rapid delivery and long-term technical sustainability, and managing these standards through architecture peer review such as Technical Design Authority. Significant experience leading and scaling multi-disciplinary architecture teams. You have a proven ability to mentor and foster a culture of high performance within Agile/DevOps frameworks. Working at senior leadership level, establishing and maintaining organisational level networks and actively engaging other senior leaders. Desirable Criteria Experience of working with the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform and Databricks. Management of contracts and 3rd party suppliers for software and professional services.
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne About the job Job summary The Infected Blood Compensation Authority (IBCA) is responsible for delivering a compensation scheme that has been long awaited by the infected blood community to provide financial compensation to victims of infected blood on a UK-wide basis. This role sits within our Data Operations team in the IBCA Data Directorate and will lead the team of data solution, and data architects that are focus on the design of the IBCA data platform and organisational wide data modelling. The Data Operations team is responsible for developing and running safe and secure data solutions that provide a single source of truth for those going through their compensation journey. They are designing and building a new data platform using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and data management and intelligence products using Databricks and Quantexa. We are taking a product-centric approach treating data as a product and are building squads around our products, with a focus on paying compensation to those impacted by the infected blood scandal seamlessly. You will focus on designing scalable and flexible data solutions for data management processes (including data integration and master data management), ensuring data quality and continuous data publication to our consuming users and services, and driving a culture of problem statement driven design. Working at IBCA gives you a huge opportunity to make an impact on those who deserve compensation, and this role suits a candidate who can spearhead solutions from the ground up to take from ideation to reality so that data is an enabler to everything IBCA does. Job description As the Principle Data & Systems Architect for our data platform and products, you'll be critical to delivering the design of the IBCA data platform through technical solution and data architecture in addition to data modelling capabilities. You will mature the quality of our architecture practices and should be committed to delivering high-impact, secure data solutions to achieve IBCA's objectives. This post is within a data delivery setting, especially one focussed on AWS, Quantexa and Databricks. You will: Set the direction for data and systems architecture ensuring infrastructure is modular, resilient and aligned with business objectives Provide technical guidance for the development of designs across the data platform including integration and master data management encompassing secure by design principles such as 'privacy by design' and 'zero trust' architectures Ensure designs are scalable, secure and efficient and that they create systemic resilience of all data assets against emerging threats Lead efforts to standardise the enterprise data fabric streamlining ingestion patterns and integrating data from various sources of varying fidelity, ensuring a 'single source of truth' that promotes data consistency, accuracy, and quality Be responsible for data ontology ensuring that there are enterprise logical and physical data models embedded across the organisation to support operational efficiency and analytical capabilities, and these follow set data standards and data management policies Build and mentor a high-performing architecture function, fostering a culture of technical excellence and cross-functional collaboration. Help the data architecture practices thrive, you will call on your expertise in emerging data management approaches including on data centralisation and apply these to help the organisation deliver success Develop our internal data architecture capability by developing L&D routeways, shaping careers paths and recruiting talent to the organisation Provide leadership and guidance to the team, further developing your own architecture, delivery management and leadership skills Work with business stakeholders and across digital service teams, understanding their needs and translating them into high- and low-level architecture designs Work with industry partners to leverage the best of new and emerging tools and approaches Responsibilities Strategic Planning: Develop and execute the Data & Systems Architecture strategy. You will ensure the technical roadmap doesn't just store data, but actively powers business intelligence and AI readiness, aligning complex infrastructure with long-term organisational goals. Team Leadership: Use your expertise to build and maintain excellence in data & system architecture capabilities by building, leading, and mentoring a team of technical solution architects, data architects and modellers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture that bridges the gap between engineering and strategic business value. Data Platform Solution Design: Design and model robust, scalable, efficient and cost-effective data solutions for data ingestion, transformation, integration, publication and storage - and be the assurer of designs at architecture review boards such as Technical Design Authority. Data Quality: Ensure data quality and integrity across the data platform. Data Governance: Prescribe the level of data governance required, taking responsibility for assurance and make recommendations to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and security standards. System Interoperability: Define the standards for the Data Platform to ensure API-first architecture and microservices so they there is seamless data flow and system integration via data publication. Collaboration: Work closely with business teams to understand data requirements and recommend design choices and provide technical expertise; and partner with senior leaders to provide assurance on solutions as they transition between design, implementation and live. Person specification Essential Criteria Accomplished expert with extensive hands-on experience at a senior level of defining and implementing data and system architecture. You must have significant experience in designing AWS ecosystems that host data management systems and orchestrate data integration, data quality & transformation processes, data matching and master data management and data publication. (Lead essential criteria) Deep proficiency in architecting end-to-end data lifecycles. This includes the strategic application of Data Lakes, Lakehouses, and NoSQL/SQL environments, with a focus on system interoperability. Demonstrable experience in building or radically transforming data & system architecture functions from scratch, particularly within high-sensitivity or regulated environments (e.g. handling PII/sensitive personal data at scale). Expert-level knowledge of embedding GDPR, Cloud Security Principles, and Zero-Trust frameworks into the very fabric of data system designs, rather than treating them as "bolt-on" compliance tasks. Expert in managing the balance between rapid delivery and long-term technical sustainability, and managing these standards through architecture peer review such as Technical Design Authority. Significant experience leading and scaling multi-disciplinary architecture teams. You have a proven ability to mentor and foster a culture of high performance within Agile/DevOps frameworks. Working at senior leadership level, establishing and maintaining organisational level networks and actively engaging other senior leaders. Desirable Criteria Experience of working with the Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform and Databricks. Management of contracts and 3rd party suppliers for software and professional services.
Location Croydon CR0 2WF, Liverpool L3 9AF, Manchester M5 3LZ, Sheffield S3 8NU, Southport PR8 2HH, Glasgow G4 0BT, Cardiff CF24 0AB. About the job Job summary Our engineering architecture community shapes the network foundations that keep the Home Office connected and secure. In Networks & Infrastructure (N&I) Network Engineering, you'll lead the definition and delivery of end to end network architectures across campus, Wide Area Network (WAN)/Software-Defined WAN, data centre, cloud connectivity and edge, ensuring solutions are robust, secure by design, and aligned to business outcomes. You'll work collaboratively with engineering squads, the CTO office, and suppliers to turn designs into operational solutions. In this role, you'll analyse technical and service issues, create actionable architectures and roadmaps, and drive simplification, reuse, and standards for better platform interoperability and rapid change. You'll clearly explain architectural choices to all stakeholders, ensure reliability and resilience, and provide governance and assurance for major projects, guiding solution engineers through design and transition. You'll coach teams, promote learning, and foster continuous improvement to protect user experience during high-priority incidents. We seek a pragmatic architect with network engineering expertise, strong analytical skills, and a holistic view. You're comfortable in dynamic, multi-supplier settings, balancing strategy and delivery, and motivated to enhance network safety and scalability. 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. Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital. Job description As a Lead Technical Architect, you will proactively shape and deliver infrastructure and technical solutions across multiple projects or teams. You will ensure solutions align with the wider enterprise architecture and strategic goals, leveraging modern technologies to drive innovative outcomes. Collaborating with a range of stakeholders, including senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners. You will balance near-term delivery with long-term scalability, security, and maintainability. You will define and evolve technical roadmaps, advise on strategic technology investments, and identify opportunities for continual improvement. Through clear, concise communication, you will secure buy-in for architectural initiatives and mentor junior architects to foster a high-performing architecture community. By evaluating emerging trends, incorporating lessons learned, and championing best practices, you will keep the technical estate flexible and future-proof, positioning the organisation for ongoing success. Person specification Main Responsibilities Define and maintain enterprise-wide technical strategies, roadmaps, and architectures aligned with broader business objectives. Oversee design reviews, incorporating "Secure by Design" principles and compliance with architectural governance. Coordinate with cross-government teams and external partners to ensure cohesive, integrated solutions. Drive digital innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, embracing best practices, and championing continuous improvement. Mentor and coach architects, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence. Facilitate the design and delivery of complex systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and security requirements are met. Lead multiple projects, collaborating with stakeholders to address risks, budgets, and timelines. Evaluate outcomes and integrate lessons learned into future strategies, enabling sustainable, long-term solutions. Essential Skills Consistent track record of ability to lead complex technical network architectures, championing innovation and best practices. Proven hands on experience in core network engineering concepts including switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing, wireless networks, segmentation, and network security. Experience working across multiple domains or projects, coordinating with third-party suppliers and cross-government teams. Aptitude for anticipating future technologies and aligning solutions with broader strategies and business outcomes. Expertise in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable systems within defined time and quality constraints. Strong grasp of agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and design patterns, paired with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF). Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, translating complex technical topics for diverse audiences. Demonstrated leadership in mentoring or guiding other architects, engineers or technical professionals.
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Croydon CR0 2WF, Liverpool L3 9AF, Manchester M5 3LZ, Sheffield S3 8NU, Southport PR8 2HH, Glasgow G4 0BT, Cardiff CF24 0AB. About the job Job summary Our engineering architecture community shapes the network foundations that keep the Home Office connected and secure. In Networks & Infrastructure (N&I) Network Engineering, you'll lead the definition and delivery of end to end network architectures across campus, Wide Area Network (WAN)/Software-Defined WAN, data centre, cloud connectivity and edge, ensuring solutions are robust, secure by design, and aligned to business outcomes. You'll work collaboratively with engineering squads, the CTO office, and suppliers to turn designs into operational solutions. In this role, you'll analyse technical and service issues, create actionable architectures and roadmaps, and drive simplification, reuse, and standards for better platform interoperability and rapid change. You'll clearly explain architectural choices to all stakeholders, ensure reliability and resilience, and provide governance and assurance for major projects, guiding solution engineers through design and transition. You'll coach teams, promote learning, and foster continuous improvement to protect user experience during high-priority incidents. We seek a pragmatic architect with network engineering expertise, strong analytical skills, and a holistic view. You're comfortable in dynamic, multi-supplier settings, balancing strategy and delivery, and motivated to enhance network safety and scalability. 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. Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital. Job description As a Lead Technical Architect, you will proactively shape and deliver infrastructure and technical solutions across multiple projects or teams. You will ensure solutions align with the wider enterprise architecture and strategic goals, leveraging modern technologies to drive innovative outcomes. Collaborating with a range of stakeholders, including senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners. You will balance near-term delivery with long-term scalability, security, and maintainability. You will define and evolve technical roadmaps, advise on strategic technology investments, and identify opportunities for continual improvement. Through clear, concise communication, you will secure buy-in for architectural initiatives and mentor junior architects to foster a high-performing architecture community. By evaluating emerging trends, incorporating lessons learned, and championing best practices, you will keep the technical estate flexible and future-proof, positioning the organisation for ongoing success. Person specification Main Responsibilities Define and maintain enterprise-wide technical strategies, roadmaps, and architectures aligned with broader business objectives. Oversee design reviews, incorporating "Secure by Design" principles and compliance with architectural governance. Coordinate with cross-government teams and external partners to ensure cohesive, integrated solutions. Drive digital innovation by evaluating emerging technologies, embracing best practices, and championing continuous improvement. Mentor and coach architects, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence. Facilitate the design and delivery of complex systems, ensuring performance, reliability, and security requirements are met. Lead multiple projects, collaborating with stakeholders to address risks, budgets, and timelines. Evaluate outcomes and integrate lessons learned into future strategies, enabling sustainable, long-term solutions. Essential Skills Consistent track record of ability to lead complex technical network architectures, championing innovation and best practices. Proven hands on experience in core network engineering concepts including switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing, wireless networks, segmentation, and network security. Experience working across multiple domains or projects, coordinating with third-party suppliers and cross-government teams. Aptitude for anticipating future technologies and aligning solutions with broader strategies and business outcomes. Expertise in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable systems within defined time and quality constraints. Strong grasp of agile methodologies, DevOps principles, and design patterns, paired with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF). Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, translating complex technical topics for diverse audiences. Demonstrated leadership in mentoring or guiding other architects, engineers or technical professionals.
Location Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London About the job Job summary Can you turn complex data challenges into clear, innovative solutions that shape a smarter, more connected future for transport? Do you thrive on collaborating with diverse teams to design flexible data architectures that drive meaningful digital transformation? If so, we'd love to hear from you! The Department for Transport (DfT) is a high-profile department at the heart of government. We plan and invest to make journeys better. At the heart of digital evolution in DfT, you will join a talented, experienced, cross-disciplinary architecture team imagining and shaping the delivery of next generation digital and data services. You will lead on developing the data architecture for an organisation which has data at its core, and uses this to deliver innovative transport policy agenda. In recent years DfT's digital and data teams have implemented a range of advanced data services, making use of the latest cloud technologies to deliver the services and platforms that our users need. 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 DfTc: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers Job description You will work as part of our talented Architecture team, and collaborate closely with our Data Engineering team, as an ambassador for the best in flexible data architecture in Digital Services and across DfTc. As part of this, you will: Be responsible for all data architecture within DfT providing designs for a number of data solutions and understanding the interdependencies between different data stacks. Shape and deliver DfT's data architecture strategy, roadmap and plans ensuring the underlying data architecture supports the goals of the organisation and government overall. Lead and develop DfTc's data architecture to support a growing data eco-system with multiple analyst users and third-party builders. Influence data decisions throughout policy lifecycles through demonstrating technology value, risk and opportunity. Develop data solutions aligned to business need, business capability, and the DfTc digital and technology strategy. Manage a range of staff and 3rd parties to design repeatable data solutions aligned to your vision for data architecture ensuring an enterprise approach is adopted. Supporting key business stakeholders by providing technical assurance/governance at boards such as the Architecture Change Board. In return, we offer you: an inclusive and welcoming working environment so you can feel comfortable to be yourself at work a chance to work in a high-performing team at the leading edge of government digital service design excellent personal development industry-leading pension and employee benefits package For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process. Person specification You are an experienced data professional; with a background in data architecture, data engineering, or a blend of the two, and you bring deep technical foundations alongside the confidence to influence, guide and collaborate across a complex organisation. You are highly proficient in Google Cloud Platform, or an expert user of AWS or Azure who is keen to apply your skills within a new cloud environment. You are comfortable with both the practical and strategic aspects of architectural thinking, able to use your expertise to shape data strategies, policies and designs, and produce patterns that are robust, scalable and aligned to organisational priorities. You communicate complex ideas with clarity and empathy, adapting your language to suit technical colleagues, policy teams, analysts, delivery partners and senior leaders. You enjoy working in the spaces where disciplines overlap; helping others understand architectural direction, translating business need into coherent designs, and feel comfortable playing a leading role in effective architecture governance and review. You have significant experience in data modelling, and are confident in developing and reviewing conceptual and logical data models. You are comfortable working with a wide range of data storage technologies, including modern data warehousing solutions, relational and NoSQL technologies, and you can apply modelling tools and methodologies to large and complex data. You bring leadership experience, whether through managing teams, guiding multidisciplinary project groups, or providing architectural direction, and you balance long term thinking with the pragmatism required to deliver tangible improvements. We're interested in people who have: Demonstrable experience in shaping and implementing data architecture strategies, policies and designs within a complex organisation. Expertise with large and complex datasets; application of data modelling tools and methodologies, engineering enterprise data storage solutions, and/or metadata management. Strong understanding of architecture governance, including presenting designs, providing challenge, and participating in review or approval forums. Experience communicating complex technical and architectural concepts clearly and effectively to a wide range of technical and non technical stakeholders. Proven experience designing and operating cloud based data solutions, selecting technologies that ensure efficiency, security, scalability and cost effectiveness.
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London About the job Job summary Can you turn complex data challenges into clear, innovative solutions that shape a smarter, more connected future for transport? Do you thrive on collaborating with diverse teams to design flexible data architectures that drive meaningful digital transformation? If so, we'd love to hear from you! The Department for Transport (DfT) is a high-profile department at the heart of government. We plan and invest to make journeys better. At the heart of digital evolution in DfT, you will join a talented, experienced, cross-disciplinary architecture team imagining and shaping the delivery of next generation digital and data services. You will lead on developing the data architecture for an organisation which has data at its core, and uses this to deliver innovative transport policy agenda. In recent years DfT's digital and data teams have implemented a range of advanced data services, making use of the latest cloud technologies to deliver the services and platforms that our users need. 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 DfTc: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers Job description You will work as part of our talented Architecture team, and collaborate closely with our Data Engineering team, as an ambassador for the best in flexible data architecture in Digital Services and across DfTc. As part of this, you will: Be responsible for all data architecture within DfT providing designs for a number of data solutions and understanding the interdependencies between different data stacks. Shape and deliver DfT's data architecture strategy, roadmap and plans ensuring the underlying data architecture supports the goals of the organisation and government overall. Lead and develop DfTc's data architecture to support a growing data eco-system with multiple analyst users and third-party builders. Influence data decisions throughout policy lifecycles through demonstrating technology value, risk and opportunity. Develop data solutions aligned to business need, business capability, and the DfTc digital and technology strategy. Manage a range of staff and 3rd parties to design repeatable data solutions aligned to your vision for data architecture ensuring an enterprise approach is adopted. Supporting key business stakeholders by providing technical assurance/governance at boards such as the Architecture Change Board. In return, we offer you: an inclusive and welcoming working environment so you can feel comfortable to be yourself at work a chance to work in a high-performing team at the leading edge of government digital service design excellent personal development industry-leading pension and employee benefits package For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process. Person specification You are an experienced data professional; with a background in data architecture, data engineering, or a blend of the two, and you bring deep technical foundations alongside the confidence to influence, guide and collaborate across a complex organisation. You are highly proficient in Google Cloud Platform, or an expert user of AWS or Azure who is keen to apply your skills within a new cloud environment. You are comfortable with both the practical and strategic aspects of architectural thinking, able to use your expertise to shape data strategies, policies and designs, and produce patterns that are robust, scalable and aligned to organisational priorities. You communicate complex ideas with clarity and empathy, adapting your language to suit technical colleagues, policy teams, analysts, delivery partners and senior leaders. You enjoy working in the spaces where disciplines overlap; helping others understand architectural direction, translating business need into coherent designs, and feel comfortable playing a leading role in effective architecture governance and review. You have significant experience in data modelling, and are confident in developing and reviewing conceptual and logical data models. You are comfortable working with a wide range of data storage technologies, including modern data warehousing solutions, relational and NoSQL technologies, and you can apply modelling tools and methodologies to large and complex data. You bring leadership experience, whether through managing teams, guiding multidisciplinary project groups, or providing architectural direction, and you balance long term thinking with the pragmatism required to deliver tangible improvements. We're interested in people who have: Demonstrable experience in shaping and implementing data architecture strategies, policies and designs within a complex organisation. Expertise with large and complex datasets; application of data modelling tools and methodologies, engineering enterprise data storage solutions, and/or metadata management. Strong understanding of architecture governance, including presenting designs, providing challenge, and participating in review or approval forums. Experience communicating complex technical and architectural concepts clearly and effectively to a wide range of technical and non technical stakeholders. Proven experience designing and operating cloud based data solutions, selecting technologies that ensure efficiency, security, scalability and cost effectiveness.
Location This position can be based at either MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR, MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, BS34 8J or MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB. About the job Job summary The MOD's digital teams ensure we remain among the most technologically advanced Armed Forces in the world. We develop and lead in cutting-edge data science, automation, and cybersecurity solutions to protect the UK and its interests, at home and abroad. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield, by leading humanitarian efforts and driving innovation, that impacts lives across the globe. Watch our video to see what we do at Defence Digital! This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. Job description As Principal Technical Architect, you'll be the driving force behind defining and embedding architectural strategy, ensuring it's not only well-crafted but consistently delivered. In this leadership role, you'll influence, engage and advise teams (engineering and architecture), making enterprise-wide technology decisions that shape national capability. With a primary focus on apps, you'll address design, development, enterprise CI/CD, tooling and product selection, overseeing delivery when required. You'll also manage the architecture and migration to cloud-based providers, such as AWS, Azure and Oracle. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team in a senior leadership position, supporting our mission to provide strategic advantage and capability for Defence, through rapid and effective software delivery, based on clear prioritisation and agile practices. Responsibilities Set technical direction and make enterprise-level decisions on digital technologies, and product selections that drive integration and alignment with the overarching architectural vision and business requirements. Plan and deliver a prioritised schedule of work, using agile methodologies, securing agreement from stakeholders and ensuring all technical architecture artefacts are captured and maintained, within relevant repositories. Serve as a Service Assessor, evaluating internal and cross-government services to ensure compliance with the service standard and alignment with architectural principles. Promote re-use and scalability across Defence, driving integration by default and reducing duplicate technologies, to support sustainability and value for money. Lead, inspire and influence engineering and architecture teams to deliver high-quality outputs, aligned with strategic priorities. Role model and champion product and service delivery, using agile user centred design methodologies, helping Defence modernise its delivery practices. Person specification Please ensure that your CV and application meet the essential criteria below: We'd expect to see expertise in architectural tools (e.g., ArchiMate) and frameworks, such as design patterns, modelling languages and component building blocks, to support complex design, governance and stakeholder engagement. You'll be able to demonstrate a breadth of technical knowledge, enabling you to advise and challenge teams to find the best solutions for Defence. You'll have knowledge of data and security architecture and approaches to data storage and management. This role may also be suitable for individuals who have progressed into technical architecture from previous roles in software engineering or architecture, working in agile delivery teams. You'll need: Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build working relationships across diverse groups, influencing decisions and aligning outcomes with strategic goals. Adaptability and resilience, able to manage shifting priorities and guiding others to deliver at pace. Experience in leading, supporting, coaching and mentoring colleagues. A passion for security and technology and identifying and solving problems. Motivation, commitment and desire to continue to learn and develop. If not held already, opportunity may be provided to gain the following when in post: TOGAF certification Open Agile Architecture Practitioner Certification Additional information This post is eligible for a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £18,000 per annum. Eligibility for this allowance will be assessed at interview against 4 core technical skills only and reviewed annually in line with MOD policy. This position can be based at either MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR, MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, BS34 8JH or MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB. Work location will be agreed once the successful candidate has been selected. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Dependent on the business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK (or potentially occasional overseas visits).
12/03/2026
Full time
Location This position can be based at either MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR, MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, BS34 8J or MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB. About the job Job summary The MOD's digital teams ensure we remain among the most technologically advanced Armed Forces in the world. We develop and lead in cutting-edge data science, automation, and cybersecurity solutions to protect the UK and its interests, at home and abroad. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield, by leading humanitarian efforts and driving innovation, that impacts lives across the globe. Watch our video to see what we do at Defence Digital! This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. Job description As Principal Technical Architect, you'll be the driving force behind defining and embedding architectural strategy, ensuring it's not only well-crafted but consistently delivered. In this leadership role, you'll influence, engage and advise teams (engineering and architecture), making enterprise-wide technology decisions that shape national capability. With a primary focus on apps, you'll address design, development, enterprise CI/CD, tooling and product selection, overseeing delivery when required. You'll also manage the architecture and migration to cloud-based providers, such as AWS, Azure and Oracle. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team in a senior leadership position, supporting our mission to provide strategic advantage and capability for Defence, through rapid and effective software delivery, based on clear prioritisation and agile practices. Responsibilities Set technical direction and make enterprise-level decisions on digital technologies, and product selections that drive integration and alignment with the overarching architectural vision and business requirements. Plan and deliver a prioritised schedule of work, using agile methodologies, securing agreement from stakeholders and ensuring all technical architecture artefacts are captured and maintained, within relevant repositories. Serve as a Service Assessor, evaluating internal and cross-government services to ensure compliance with the service standard and alignment with architectural principles. Promote re-use and scalability across Defence, driving integration by default and reducing duplicate technologies, to support sustainability and value for money. Lead, inspire and influence engineering and architecture teams to deliver high-quality outputs, aligned with strategic priorities. Role model and champion product and service delivery, using agile user centred design methodologies, helping Defence modernise its delivery practices. Person specification Please ensure that your CV and application meet the essential criteria below: We'd expect to see expertise in architectural tools (e.g., ArchiMate) and frameworks, such as design patterns, modelling languages and component building blocks, to support complex design, governance and stakeholder engagement. You'll be able to demonstrate a breadth of technical knowledge, enabling you to advise and challenge teams to find the best solutions for Defence. You'll have knowledge of data and security architecture and approaches to data storage and management. This role may also be suitable for individuals who have progressed into technical architecture from previous roles in software engineering or architecture, working in agile delivery teams. You'll need: Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build working relationships across diverse groups, influencing decisions and aligning outcomes with strategic goals. Adaptability and resilience, able to manage shifting priorities and guiding others to deliver at pace. Experience in leading, supporting, coaching and mentoring colleagues. A passion for security and technology and identifying and solving problems. Motivation, commitment and desire to continue to learn and develop. If not held already, opportunity may be provided to gain the following when in post: TOGAF certification Open Agile Architecture Practitioner Certification Additional information This post is eligible for a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £18,000 per annum. Eligibility for this allowance will be assessed at interview against 4 core technical skills only and reviewed annually in line with MOD policy. This position can be based at either MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR, MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, BS34 8JH or MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB. Work location will be agreed once the successful candidate has been selected. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station, which is based on business assessment of where the work is best done) and working from home as a personal choice (if the role is suitable for this). If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Dependent on the business need, there may be a requirement to travel to meetings within the UK (or potentially occasional overseas visits).
Location Newport, NP10 8QQ About the job Job summary Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting-edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Test Engineer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. We are recruiting for multiple roles of which one role is slightly biased towards application testing post infrastructure changes. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to Technical Responsible for writing, executing and maintaining functional/non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment Be responsible for the design, coding, testing, maintenance, and documentation for robust, scalable and reusable solutions that deliver exceptional user experience using DevOps best practice Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to. Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Build automated test solutions from scratch in line with IPO Test Strategy and IPO Engineering Principles Contribute to the design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical program Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Behavioural Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results) Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team) Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services Provide project / delivery management support when required Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team Applies "progress over perfection" principle Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Personal and Team Development Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values Guide more junior members in their personal development Coach and mentor colleagues Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends Person specification Essential Experience Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects Experience of working with cloud technologies including Azure Experience of using data models Experience in test documentation, such as strategies and approaches Experience in testing front-end and back-end web services Experienced with Agile delivery model Working knowledge of Azure DevOps Essential Technical Experience with Automation tools, including MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp and JavaScript Working knowledge of non-functional test tools including JMeter and Azure Load Test Experience with Github Has a deep understanding of architectural principals with design patterns Experience of writing SQL statements
12/03/2026
Full time
Location Newport, NP10 8QQ About the job Job summary Digital Delivery Senior Automation Tester The IPO is a modern organisation which depends on its IT services to operate and innovate effectively. In order to provide up to date services to our customers both nationally and internationally systems need to be developed, improved and maintained. You will have the opportunity to work on the latest cutting-edge cloud technologies, use modern delivery processes and work on innovative projects some including the use of AI and ML. Working alongside experts in their fields you will have the opportunity to make valuable contributions without compromising on quality. You will need the appetite to learn new technologies and methodologies for delivering high quality IT services. In this role you will work within a multi-disciplined squad using several technologies to build enterprise grade services. You will be expected to be proactive and take accountability for the squad assigned deliveries. The role will also require the investigation, diagnosis and fix of any system issues. A Senior Test Engineer is expected to contribute to the technical strategy for the department. As a multi-skilled individual, you will have the opportunities to develop and mature skills in a core role but extend this to skills typically aligned to other role types. You will have a high level of input in defining which additional skills you can develop. We are recruiting for multiple roles of which one role is slightly biased towards application testing post infrastructure changes. Working Style This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office. The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to Technical Responsible for writing, executing and maintaining functional/non-functional automated UI and API tests/suites aligned against acceptance criteria to support our continuous deployment environment Be responsible for the design, coding, testing, maintenance, and documentation for robust, scalable and reusable solutions that deliver exceptional user experience using DevOps best practice Proactively investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes, evaluating and communicating findings and recommendations to stakeholders Work closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver highly user focused and successful digital services ensuring governance standards are adhered to. Identify and manage defects, incidents, risks and issues in line with IPO standards Build automated test solutions from scratch in line with IPO Test Strategy and IPO Engineering Principles Contribute to the design, coding, testing and documentation of small scale to large, complex or mission critical program Implement toolkits and APIs for purposes such as integration, performance optimisation, security and scalability Behavioural Understanding yourself to be a leader (and the impact of your behaviour on others in a project team focused on results) Engaging Stakeholders (for mutually beneficial collaborative relationships outside of the team) Work across several multi-disciplinary teams to deliver highly focused and successful digital services Provide project / delivery management support when required Effective management and delegation of tasks within the team Applies "progress over perfection" principle Takes full responsibility for decisions and delivers Inner composure, recovers quickly from setbacks and learns from the experience Highly driven & inspires others to move things along and make things happen Work collaboratively with IT and stakeholders, share knowledge and expertise with your wider team, aspire to be a role model within the organisation, champion our culture of learning, development, cross-company collaboration and teamwork Personal and Team Development Drive your own training and self-development, keeping skills up to date and learning new skills Take responsibility for ensuring that the team test and build activities follow agreed governance and processes Promote and display the IPO and Civil Service Values Guide more junior members in their personal development Coach and mentor colleagues Continuously improves technical knowledge and stays abreast of latest trends Person specification Essential Experience Has been a key player in delivering technical solutions as part of large projects Experience of working with cloud technologies including Azure Experience of using data models Experience in test documentation, such as strategies and approaches Experience in testing front-end and back-end web services Experienced with Agile delivery model Working knowledge of Azure DevOps Essential Technical Experience with Automation tools, including MS Visual Studio with C#, Selenium, BDD, SpecFlow, MSTest, RestSharp and JavaScript Working knowledge of non-functional test tools including JMeter and Azure Load Test Experience with Github Has a deep understanding of architectural principals with design patterns Experience of writing SQL statements
Location This role is available on a remote, hybrid, or office basis. Initially, all DBS employees' contracts are office-based at one of our two sites (Liverpool and Darlington). Employees can apply for remote or hybrid work from day one. If approved, the arrangement will start after six months for transfers from Home Office or after completing probation for new joiners. Requests will be considered based on business needs and role requirements. Informal hybrid working arrangements are also available from day one, subject to business needs and role requirements and will be discussed further following any job offer. About the job Job summary As a Lead Technical Architect operating within the solution space and owning the technology/applications domain you have an important role to support the business deliver successful outcomes. DBS operates a complex technical and commercial environment with the challenge of aged legacy systems, hybrid hosting and multiple suppliers and is on a transformation journey over the course of the next two years to transition from these legacy services to modular, proprietary SaaS and cloud-based solutions, which includes the migration to new Case Management, CRM, Matching, Security Services e.g. SOCaaS, Document Management, Digital Evidence Management, Redaction, Bundling and other supporting technologies or services including those presented internally and externally to suppliers or citizens where data and information is at the heart of everything we do. In addition to this, the Lead Technical Architect will support the technology directorate and other Architects in keeping abreast of new emerging technologies that support this transformation, working closely with business, commercial and other counterparts across the organisation. The Lead Technical Architect will support the Chief Architect and other Lead Architects as part this journey as well as managing change within the extant legacy systems and ensuring that the vision aligns to and facilitates the delivery of the DBS Business Strategy, deploying all necessary tools and techniques accordingly, as well as identifying and articulating technology led transformation opportunities. The Lead Technical Architect works with service, delivery teams, projects, planners and designers to take an early view of how they can identify and implement the best solutions to deliver business change and achieve Departmental objectives. This solution implementation will be aligned to the architecture vision and principles, and the Lead Technical Architect will be comfortable working within agile and waterfall methodologies as well as navigating hybrid scenarios across the two disciplines. At this level the Technical Architect will typically lead a project strand (including parallel streams), a medium size project delivery area or the technical discipline of the development capability within an agile product and service delivery team. Job description The key responsibilities of the Lead Technical Architect are to: Provide technical leadership in a multi-team environment and using varied solution development lifecycles. Challenge entrenched practices Define clearly as-is and to-be architectures proportionate to the requirements of the team and environment. Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment where feasible Support the development of architectural patterns and roadmaps specific to the projects or services being worked on Contribute to reference architecture models and repository. Provide effective impact assessment of change proposals. Ensure projects and programmes are compliant with strategy and architecture. Assess and communicate the value of the project/programme architecture. In delivering these responsibilities you will be expected to: Build effective relations and engagement with senior management. Provide or oversee the provision of effective technical advice to multiple teams ensuring that solutions adhere to accepted architectural principles. Articulate to a professional standard complex technical idea in clear, informative and accessible language, tailored as necessary for the intended audience. Utilise appropriate methods, techniques and tools for planning, organising, resourcing, directing, co-ordinating and monitoring ongoing activities. Person specification Proven experience in developing and implementing technical architecture and design strategies in a multi supplier environment. Experience of designing, Integrating and managing scalable, secure and efficient architectures for SaaS applications Experience of working in large transformation programmes, specifically moving from legacy technology to leading edge solutions Experience across physical and cloud-based architectures and across multiple operating system platforms. Experience of application deployments in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as well as DevOps-type environments Experience of the creation and maintenance of secure architectures, designs and plans encompassing the securing of data at rest and in transit, access controls (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) Proven ability to undertake detailed analysis of technical designs and provide the business with assurance of supplier designs and proposals. Capable of leading VFM challenges of technical proposals and manage technical interdependencies within a project/programme. Experience of supporting Architecture Teams or the Chief Architect in the delivery of the architecture vision and IT strategy. Experience of CI/CD pipelines and testing Essential Experience Significant experience of working autonomously within or in support of an Architectural discipline A proven track record of using IS and IT for commercial benefit. Experience of using standard industry Enterprise Architecture frameworks. Experience of working in agile teams supporting rapid solution delivery in cloud-based environments. Experience of using architecture repository and architecture modeling tools to ensure the control and benefit maximization of infrastructure architecture. Experience of delivering secure and robust solutions, contributing effectively to all security accreditation activities. Desirable Experience A good understanding of industry best practice in the use of IS/IT enabled business change. A sound knowledge and application of architecture in a government or regulated environment. Previous experience or background of working within, or on, secure UK based contracts Background in Agile or Hybrid development lifecycles Demonstrable experience of using industry standard modelling techniques e.g. ArchiMate 2.0 or EA Sparx Other Role Requirements UK based for at least 5 years and able to meet the minimum criteria to apply for, or obtain Government Security Check (SC) clearance required to perform the role. You should also be willing to undergo Non Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Level 3, as NPPV3 clearance may be required when in post. Desirable Qualification TOGAF 9/10
12/03/2026
Full time
Location This role is available on a remote, hybrid, or office basis. Initially, all DBS employees' contracts are office-based at one of our two sites (Liverpool and Darlington). Employees can apply for remote or hybrid work from day one. If approved, the arrangement will start after six months for transfers from Home Office or after completing probation for new joiners. Requests will be considered based on business needs and role requirements. Informal hybrid working arrangements are also available from day one, subject to business needs and role requirements and will be discussed further following any job offer. About the job Job summary As a Lead Technical Architect operating within the solution space and owning the technology/applications domain you have an important role to support the business deliver successful outcomes. DBS operates a complex technical and commercial environment with the challenge of aged legacy systems, hybrid hosting and multiple suppliers and is on a transformation journey over the course of the next two years to transition from these legacy services to modular, proprietary SaaS and cloud-based solutions, which includes the migration to new Case Management, CRM, Matching, Security Services e.g. SOCaaS, Document Management, Digital Evidence Management, Redaction, Bundling and other supporting technologies or services including those presented internally and externally to suppliers or citizens where data and information is at the heart of everything we do. In addition to this, the Lead Technical Architect will support the technology directorate and other Architects in keeping abreast of new emerging technologies that support this transformation, working closely with business, commercial and other counterparts across the organisation. The Lead Technical Architect will support the Chief Architect and other Lead Architects as part this journey as well as managing change within the extant legacy systems and ensuring that the vision aligns to and facilitates the delivery of the DBS Business Strategy, deploying all necessary tools and techniques accordingly, as well as identifying and articulating technology led transformation opportunities. The Lead Technical Architect works with service, delivery teams, projects, planners and designers to take an early view of how they can identify and implement the best solutions to deliver business change and achieve Departmental objectives. This solution implementation will be aligned to the architecture vision and principles, and the Lead Technical Architect will be comfortable working within agile and waterfall methodologies as well as navigating hybrid scenarios across the two disciplines. At this level the Technical Architect will typically lead a project strand (including parallel streams), a medium size project delivery area or the technical discipline of the development capability within an agile product and service delivery team. Job description The key responsibilities of the Lead Technical Architect are to: Provide technical leadership in a multi-team environment and using varied solution development lifecycles. Challenge entrenched practices Define clearly as-is and to-be architectures proportionate to the requirements of the team and environment. Be responsible for leading the technical design of systems and services, justifying and communicating design decisions Assure other services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy for government Explore the benefits of cross-government alignment where feasible Support the development of architectural patterns and roadmaps specific to the projects or services being worked on Contribute to reference architecture models and repository. Provide effective impact assessment of change proposals. Ensure projects and programmes are compliant with strategy and architecture. Assess and communicate the value of the project/programme architecture. In delivering these responsibilities you will be expected to: Build effective relations and engagement with senior management. Provide or oversee the provision of effective technical advice to multiple teams ensuring that solutions adhere to accepted architectural principles. Articulate to a professional standard complex technical idea in clear, informative and accessible language, tailored as necessary for the intended audience. Utilise appropriate methods, techniques and tools for planning, organising, resourcing, directing, co-ordinating and monitoring ongoing activities. Person specification Proven experience in developing and implementing technical architecture and design strategies in a multi supplier environment. Experience of designing, Integrating and managing scalable, secure and efficient architectures for SaaS applications Experience of working in large transformation programmes, specifically moving from legacy technology to leading edge solutions Experience across physical and cloud-based architectures and across multiple operating system platforms. Experience of application deployments in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as well as DevOps-type environments Experience of the creation and maintenance of secure architectures, designs and plans encompassing the securing of data at rest and in transit, access controls (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) Proven ability to undertake detailed analysis of technical designs and provide the business with assurance of supplier designs and proposals. Capable of leading VFM challenges of technical proposals and manage technical interdependencies within a project/programme. Experience of supporting Architecture Teams or the Chief Architect in the delivery of the architecture vision and IT strategy. Experience of CI/CD pipelines and testing Essential Experience Significant experience of working autonomously within or in support of an Architectural discipline A proven track record of using IS and IT for commercial benefit. Experience of using standard industry Enterprise Architecture frameworks. Experience of working in agile teams supporting rapid solution delivery in cloud-based environments. Experience of using architecture repository and architecture modeling tools to ensure the control and benefit maximization of infrastructure architecture. Experience of delivering secure and robust solutions, contributing effectively to all security accreditation activities. Desirable Experience A good understanding of industry best practice in the use of IS/IT enabled business change. A sound knowledge and application of architecture in a government or regulated environment. Previous experience or background of working within, or on, secure UK based contracts Background in Agile or Hybrid development lifecycles Demonstrable experience of using industry standard modelling techniques e.g. ArchiMate 2.0 or EA Sparx Other Role Requirements UK based for at least 5 years and able to meet the minimum criteria to apply for, or obtain Government Security Check (SC) clearance required to perform the role. You should also be willing to undergo Non Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) Level 3, as NPPV3 clearance may be required when in post. Desirable Qualification TOGAF 9/10
A career without limits As the nation's flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain. It's something we've been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world's first international scheduled air service between London and Paris. This originality has been in our blood since day one. It's the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues. So, whether you are a reassuring voice on the end of a phone, a smile at the door, under a wing keeping the turbines spinning or landing us gently in far flung places, a job at British Airways is yours to make. We know great things can happen when you're inspired to think big and bring your ambition to work every day, which is why, at British Airways, the sky is never the limit. The role Cyber Product Owner - Identity & Access Management (IAM) As Cyber Product Owner for Identity & Access Management (IAM), you'll play a critical role in ensuring British Airways' authentication and access platforms deliver secure, efficient and user friendly experiences for colleagues and customers. This is a hands on product role. You'll be expected to bring deep practical experience of IAM tooling and the ability to engage confidently on how identity platforms are designed, configured, implemented and operated in real environments. This role requires more than strategy or governance - you'll need to know your tools and how they work in practice. What you'll do Provide technical cyber leadership across BA's IAM products, including platforms such as Active Directory, Entra ID and multi factor authentication Own the product vision, strategy and roadmaps for IAM, translating business and security needs into clear outcomes and measurable KPIs Work hands on with IAM capabilities , validating implementation approaches, guiding configuration decisions and shaping how tools are used in production Assess, implement and promote IAM features that strengthen security, improve user experience and drive adoption Create and maintain IAM reference architectures, design patterns and technical guidance Lead cyber and security reviews to ensure consistency, quality and alignment to BA security principles Act as a subject matter expert on IAM, supporting delivery assurance and wider cyber initiatives Engage with stakeholders to understand operational pain points and continuously improve authentication and authorisation journeys Develop and maintain an up to date threat model and risk view of the IAM landscape What you'll bring to British Airways Strong hands on experience with enterprise IAM tooling - you can demonstrate practical knowledge of how identity platforms are configured, operated and improved, not just managed at a high level Deep understanding of identity, authentication and access management Ability to explain complex IAM and security topics clearly to technical and non technical audiences Experience translating security requirements into deliverable product changes A structured, analytical approach with confidence balancing security, usability and delivery Proactive, pragmatic mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and operational resilience Your experience Proven experience delivering and operating IAM products in a large or complex environment Strong practical experience with identity platforms such as Active Directory and Entra ID, including authentication Experience defining IAM strategies and roadmaps and working closely with engineers and suppliers to deliver them Track record of improving security posture while enabling business outcomes Cybersecurity qualifications or certifications are desirable What we offer We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It's one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary. From the day you join us, you'll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You'll also receive up to 30 discounted 'Hotline' airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family. At British Airways you'll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress. We never stand still, and we don't expect our people to either. Inclusion & Diversity At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work. Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we're committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We're looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.
12/03/2026
Full time
A career without limits As the nation's flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain. It's something we've been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world's first international scheduled air service between London and Paris. This originality has been in our blood since day one. It's the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues. So, whether you are a reassuring voice on the end of a phone, a smile at the door, under a wing keeping the turbines spinning or landing us gently in far flung places, a job at British Airways is yours to make. We know great things can happen when you're inspired to think big and bring your ambition to work every day, which is why, at British Airways, the sky is never the limit. The role Cyber Product Owner - Identity & Access Management (IAM) As Cyber Product Owner for Identity & Access Management (IAM), you'll play a critical role in ensuring British Airways' authentication and access platforms deliver secure, efficient and user friendly experiences for colleagues and customers. This is a hands on product role. You'll be expected to bring deep practical experience of IAM tooling and the ability to engage confidently on how identity platforms are designed, configured, implemented and operated in real environments. This role requires more than strategy or governance - you'll need to know your tools and how they work in practice. What you'll do Provide technical cyber leadership across BA's IAM products, including platforms such as Active Directory, Entra ID and multi factor authentication Own the product vision, strategy and roadmaps for IAM, translating business and security needs into clear outcomes and measurable KPIs Work hands on with IAM capabilities , validating implementation approaches, guiding configuration decisions and shaping how tools are used in production Assess, implement and promote IAM features that strengthen security, improve user experience and drive adoption Create and maintain IAM reference architectures, design patterns and technical guidance Lead cyber and security reviews to ensure consistency, quality and alignment to BA security principles Act as a subject matter expert on IAM, supporting delivery assurance and wider cyber initiatives Engage with stakeholders to understand operational pain points and continuously improve authentication and authorisation journeys Develop and maintain an up to date threat model and risk view of the IAM landscape What you'll bring to British Airways Strong hands on experience with enterprise IAM tooling - you can demonstrate practical knowledge of how identity platforms are configured, operated and improved, not just managed at a high level Deep understanding of identity, authentication and access management Ability to explain complex IAM and security topics clearly to technical and non technical audiences Experience translating security requirements into deliverable product changes A structured, analytical approach with confidence balancing security, usability and delivery Proactive, pragmatic mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and operational resilience Your experience Proven experience delivering and operating IAM products in a large or complex environment Strong practical experience with identity platforms such as Active Directory and Entra ID, including authentication Experience defining IAM strategies and roadmaps and working closely with engineers and suppliers to deliver them Track record of improving security posture while enabling business outcomes Cybersecurity qualifications or certifications are desirable What we offer We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It's one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary. From the day you join us, you'll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You'll also receive up to 30 discounted 'Hotline' airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family. At British Airways you'll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress. We never stand still, and we don't expect our people to either. Inclusion & Diversity At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work. Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we're committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We're looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.
About the role As the Director of IT Strategy & Architecture you'll act as the "Office of the CIO," ensuring that technology execution aligns with business strategy and maximises Zellis Group investments. You'll hold the purse strings, set the standards, and measure the performance of the wider IT function to ensure value for money and operational excellence. For Zellis Group this is vital because we need to get control of the corporate architecture and develop a roadmap based on business priorities, not technical solution. You'll provide architecture services for systems and data, run portfolio and change governance, lead BRM to shape demand, and oversee the IT budget and vendor management capabilities to deliver transparent, outcome-based value. In this role your key responsibilities will include: Setting the technology strategy: Defining and continually refining the multi-year technology strategy and target architecture, aligned to business objectives and risk appetite. Running enterprise architecture services: Governing principles, standards and reference architectures; providing solution assurance; leading data architecture (quality, lineage, stewardship). Shaping & governing the change portfolio: Operating lean portfolio management, stage gates and architecture / runway reviews; ensuring alignment of investments to value and capacity. Leading BRM & demand shaping: Establishing a proactive BRM capability that translates business strategies into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Overseeing IT financials & vendors: Partnering with Finance to run the IT planning cycle, budgeting and benefits tracking; owning vendor segmentation, performance and commercial optimisation. Risk, compliance & resilience: Embedding security, privacy and regulatory requirements into design and change governance; ensuring audit-ready evidence and KPIs. Partnering, influencing, communicating: Providing clear narratives and options to the Executive and Senior Leadership; building cross-functional alignment and accountability. Skills & experience Executive-level technology leadership experience with demonstrable impact on strategy, portfolio value delivery, and architecture governance. Proven experience leading enterprise / solution / data architecture in a modern cloud and integration landscape. Financial stewardship of IT budgets and multi-vendor ecosystems. Experience within PE-backed, multi-organisation Group environments desirable. Strong commercial and negotiation skills. Exceptional communication and stakeholder influence. Ability to balance speed, risk, and value. Benefits & culture At Zellis Group (Zellis, Moorepay, Benifex, and Hastee) we power exceptional employee experiences by creating AI-enabled products and services within HR, workforce management, payroll, and benefits. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. With over 3,500 colleagues across the UK, Europe, India and the Philippines, we have a significant ambition for growth (organically and through M&A). We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from of our colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position. With Zellis Group you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive: A competitive base salary, cash car allowance and bonus. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
12/03/2026
Full time
About the role As the Director of IT Strategy & Architecture you'll act as the "Office of the CIO," ensuring that technology execution aligns with business strategy and maximises Zellis Group investments. You'll hold the purse strings, set the standards, and measure the performance of the wider IT function to ensure value for money and operational excellence. For Zellis Group this is vital because we need to get control of the corporate architecture and develop a roadmap based on business priorities, not technical solution. You'll provide architecture services for systems and data, run portfolio and change governance, lead BRM to shape demand, and oversee the IT budget and vendor management capabilities to deliver transparent, outcome-based value. In this role your key responsibilities will include: Setting the technology strategy: Defining and continually refining the multi-year technology strategy and target architecture, aligned to business objectives and risk appetite. Running enterprise architecture services: Governing principles, standards and reference architectures; providing solution assurance; leading data architecture (quality, lineage, stewardship). Shaping & governing the change portfolio: Operating lean portfolio management, stage gates and architecture / runway reviews; ensuring alignment of investments to value and capacity. Leading BRM & demand shaping: Establishing a proactive BRM capability that translates business strategies into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Overseeing IT financials & vendors: Partnering with Finance to run the IT planning cycle, budgeting and benefits tracking; owning vendor segmentation, performance and commercial optimisation. Risk, compliance & resilience: Embedding security, privacy and regulatory requirements into design and change governance; ensuring audit-ready evidence and KPIs. Partnering, influencing, communicating: Providing clear narratives and options to the Executive and Senior Leadership; building cross-functional alignment and accountability. Skills & experience Executive-level technology leadership experience with demonstrable impact on strategy, portfolio value delivery, and architecture governance. Proven experience leading enterprise / solution / data architecture in a modern cloud and integration landscape. Financial stewardship of IT budgets and multi-vendor ecosystems. Experience within PE-backed, multi-organisation Group environments desirable. Strong commercial and negotiation skills. Exceptional communication and stakeholder influence. Ability to balance speed, risk, and value. Benefits & culture At Zellis Group (Zellis, Moorepay, Benifex, and Hastee) we power exceptional employee experiences by creating AI-enabled products and services within HR, workforce management, payroll, and benefits. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. With over 3,500 colleagues across the UK, Europe, India and the Philippines, we have a significant ambition for growth (organically and through M&A). We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from of our colleagues, we live and breathe every day: Unstoppable together. Always learning. Make it count. Think scale. Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position. With Zellis Group you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive. We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive: A competitive base salary, cash car allowance and bonus. 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday. Private medical insurance. Life assurance 4x salary. Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%. A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
