Job responsibilities
- Strategic thinking (data architecture). You will lead with the design and implementation of data architecture strategy, directing the evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met.
- Data governance. You will ensure data governance supports changes to the organisational strategy, ensuring that data governance aligns with wider governance concerns (for example, budget).
- Architecture standards. You will develop and set architectural standards for the organisation, including tooling strategies, architectural guardrails and data standards, communicating the business benefit and championing and governing those standards across the organisation.
- Turning business problems into data design. You will design data architectures by dealing with problems that span the enterprise, working across all organisational subject areas.
- Data analysis and synthesis. On occasion you will undertake data profiling and source system analysis, supporting the wider Data Science activities being performed. You will present clear insights to colleagues to support the end use of the data.
- Communication skills (data). You will mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. You will manage stakeholders expectations and facilitate discussions across high risk or complexity or under constrained timescales, speaking on behalf of the community to large audiences inside and outside government.
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Essential Criteria:
A hands-on track record in providing pragmatic architectural leadership and experience in developing and defining IT Strategy and Architecture, with this being successfully embedded into the enterprise
A good communicator, comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and with the ability to work with architects from other disciplines and integrate their work to provide a joined-up picture of data across the enterprise
Practical examples where you have you addressed complex architecture issues that need EA style thinking, for example, optimisation of cloud and examples of how you have applied the proportionate use of architectural assets and shown impact across the enterprise
Broad Hands-on experience of technical governance and conducting architectural assessments and creating roadmaps, including technology debt assessments, cloud transition approaches, patterns for introduction of disruptive technologies into legacy estates and architectural governance
Ability to deliver strategic thinking to stakeholders through roadmaps, mentoring and architectural thought leadership
Ability to lead interviews and workshops to find a navigable architecture path with stakeholders that may have differing viewpoints, such as product design, architecture, DevOps and service management
Hands-on experience in the delivery of emerging technologies and architectural trends, including:
Delivery of platforms and the transition roadmaps to platform-based approaches
Architectural styles such as Microservices vs Packaged Solutions
Digital transformation enablement, by effectively bringing business, data and technology architecture viewpoints together
Delivery of architecture in an agile, iterative manner and the architects role in agile delivery
Emerging platforms such as IoT, Machine Learning, Edge, HPC, HTC and how these can be delivered and integrated with legacy platforms
Expertise in Business intelligence, data warehousing and enabling data science with data integration and interoperability, including:
Data marts, data warehouses and data lakes
Operational data stores
End to end data ingress / egress, ideally in an environment with strict data governance and security controls
Key data storage technologies including relational databases, NoSQL and big data technologies, graph databases; and their relative strengths and weaknesses
Experience designing, administering, configuring and creating integrations using industry standard protocols and formats e.g. SOAP, JSON, REST, HTTP, XML, AS2, SFTP and EDI
Experience with DevOps tooling used to support integration development e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise.
Knowledge of Splunk, Salesforce or Service Now would be advantageous.
Desirable Criteria :
Certified in an architecture design methodology, for example TOGAF, Zachman
Certified in Cloud technology e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP
Selection Process
You will be required to complete an application form. This will be assessed and sifted in line with the essential criteria.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience
Stage 1: Application & Sift
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement / Statement of Suitability in no more than 1000 words. We will be assessing essential criteria at sift.
This should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the Experience criteria or the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section).
You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history. This will be used in the sifting process and will be scored.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview
Stage 2: Panel Interview
The interview process will be conducted remotely via teams you will not be required to do a presentation at the interview you will be tested on the following behaviours:
- Communicating & Influencing
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
You will also be tested on your broad experience of enterprise architecture
Reserve List:
Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.
If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.
DBS - People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.
This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found athttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rulesThis job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of theEuropean Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
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Its important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following:
- life sentences
- arson
- sexual offences
- hate and terror offences
Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role
Contact Details Sophie.Rigney@reed.com
