Senior Solution Architect - Birmingham Regional Centre - Arena Central

About the job

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. We work with leading technologies often supported by the companies behind them - Amazon Web Services (AWS), SAP, SAS, Pega, Azure, and Microsoft Power Platform to name a few, to develop and implement solution designs.

You will be using these technologies and more to architect IT solutions that work on a UK wide scale across all of HMRC's tax and benefits including Self-Assessment, VAT, Corporation Tax, and Counter-Fraud, as well as designing systems that support all the UK's international trade. By joining the Chief Digital & Information Office (CDIO) as a Solutions Architect you will be playing a role in helping define HMRC's technology direction and create IT solution designs that make an impact that really matters on a national scale.

This is a challenging role, and we are looking for people who have the skills and determination to help us realise our vision. We believe in supporting the personal development of our staff - and of course, IT is always changing, so we offer extensive tailored training and development opportunities.

Your responsibilities in this role will include:

• Leading a team of solution architects within one or more strands of IT Change Programmes, setting direction for the team and delivering results.
• Accountability for producing technical IT Solution Designs on projects that align to the HMRC IT Strategy and deliver business outcomes.
• Responsibility for authoring costed design documentation, working closely with business stakeholders and technical architects to create cohesive solutions that meet the business and user needs.
• Working with Delivery Teams and partners to ensure the Solution Design is delivered and implemented.
• Building strong relationships with key business and CDIO partners.

Essential Criteria

• You have experience in developing solutions at pace through Architectural Governance and managing architecture risks.
• You have worked on multiple significant large scale complex IT change/transformation programme designs.
• You will be able to pick up new technologies and architecture concepts and styles quickly, understand their strengths and weaknesses and apply that learning.
• You are a collaborative problem solver, working with colleagues to identify root causes allowing you to create and deliver pragmatic IT solutions.
• You have a proven ability to collaborate with stakeholders with a broad spectrum of viewpoints and to document and present their views from an architecture perspective.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of 58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
• HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments.
• We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies. Personal support. Coaching and development.

Hybrid working at HMRC

HMRC is an office-based organisation, and colleagues are expected to spend 60% of their working time in the office. Our offices provide opportunity for interaction, collaboration which aids learning and development and a sense of community. Where the role allows it, and where the home environment is suitable, colleagues can work from home for up to 2 days a week, averaged over a calendar month.