Senior Technical Architect - HMRC - G7

Full-time (Permanent) National Salary £58,541 - £64,624. London Salary £65,869 - £72,711.

Location:

• Birmingham Regional Centre - Arena Central
• Bristol Regional Centre - 3 Glass Wharf
• Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House
• Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place
• Liverpool Regional Centre - Water Street
• Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey
• Newcastle Upon Tyne - Benton Park View
• Telford - Plaza 1 and 2
• Worthing - Teville Gate House
• Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue

Please note that due to workforce controls, Leeds and Newcastle are only available to existing HMRC staff in these locations.

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 is really like to work at HMRC.

Here in HMRC’s Chief Digital & Information Group (CDIO) we’re increasingly delivering in-house through our growing network of digital delivery centres – hi-tech, innovative facilities across the UK. We are a small, agile team within our Chief Technology and Design Office that focus on Technical Innovation. Our objective isn’t necessarily what we can change tomorrow, but the longer-term improvement of the UK tax system. We work to understand and solve problems, proposing innovative solutions through continuous exploration.

As a key member of our multidisciplinary Innovation Team, you’ll work alongside User Researchers, Analysts, Designers, Product Managers, Software Developers, Architects, policy, innovation and technology specialists. As a team, you’ll develop innovative approaches for digital products that are part of end-to-end services across HMRC and government. This is an exciting opportunity to make real changes for HMRC and our customers through innovation and to join our Architecture community supporting a large-scale dynamic transformation that has profound impact both on customers and our staff.

You will:

• Rapidly develop an understanding of technologies in use and the overall architecture strategy.
• Work closely with Innovation scrum teams, business partners and IT colleagues to design innovative but appropriate solutions that demonstrate that new technology and approaches can deliver improvements.
• Be flexible and self-motivated, have a keen eye for detail and a solid focus on quality.
• Have a good track record in delivering customer-focused technology change and be able to articulate technical detail to non-technical people.
• Be credible, influential and a team-player. A confident communicator with good interpersonal skills.
• Be comfortable working creatively in a “fail fast” manner on inception and discovery projects.

Person specification:

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect who has experience of:

• Leading technical discussions between internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Evaluating products/tools and providing enterprise appropriate recommendations.
• Developing an understanding of user needs, to design user-centred technical service propositions.
• Identifying business problems and recommending technical solutions and designs.
• Undertaking structural analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs.
• Building collaborative relationships with partners across teams and services.
• Articulating technical requirements and implications compellingly to technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Working with innovators to design aspirational concepts for future services and processes.
• Governing high and low-level designs with full lifecycle management.
• Effective communication with colleagues, business partners, customers and senior leaders.
• Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical.
• Technical governance and delivering the assurance of a service.
• Making and guiding effective decisions.
• Applying strategy for technology that meets business and customer needs.
• Working with business and technology partners to translate business problems into technical designs.
• Understanding trends and practices outside your team and organisation.
• Looking beyond the immediate technical problem and identifying wider implications.
• Software development and technical architecture.
• Knowledge of innovative and emerging technologies (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial and Synthetic Data, Cryptocurrencies, Open Banking etc.)
• Cloud computing knowledge and experience designing and implementing (e.g. AWS/Azure/Google or Hybrid).