• Evidence of strong process, technical and team leadership skills, with a passion for delivering leading edge designs and inspiring a culture of technical excellence and innovative solution design.
• Experience of navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers (driving the procurement process), internal and cross-government (or similarly complex) teams.
• Management & delivery of complex service solutions within time, cost and quality targets, ensuring solutions are robust, resilient, and appropriately implemented, tested and documented.
• Work in digital technologies and approaches including cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/cloud native), common front and back end technologies, software defined infrastructure, continuous delivery and DevOps. AWS cloud experience preferable.
• Design hybrid solution and migration path for on-prem / cloud services.
• Experience of owning and contributing to the technical roadmap and strategy.
• Experience in anticipating and advising on future technology changes that present opportunities for the application or service.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a language which meets the needs of different users/stakeholders through selecting the appropriate channels & formats and managing expectations whilst adapting to stakeholder´s reactions with flexibility.
• Identifying process improvements and defining best practice, inspiring teams to follow it.
• Understanding of Lean, Agile and DevOps principles
• Mentor team of varied experience levels
• Certification – preferably in TOGAF, Oracle, AWS Solution Architect Associate/Professional or similar

Essential Skills:
• SME & Expertise in varied Architecture Landscape touch points of both On-Prem & Cloud, Hybrid, varied Programming Languages, Infrastructure(DR), Security, CI/CD, Scalability , Resilience and Performance
• Expertise in Relational/Oracle, NoSQL Database concepts
• Experience in Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Developer, Toad & DW DBA knowledge, gap analysis, performance analysis and proposing solutions based on varied product evaluations in current market
• Strong Architectural & hands-on experience in Oracle, MongoDB & DynamoDB
• Ability to evaluate, run POC and suggest to Business & Tech stakeholders of products fit for purpose addressing the performance & other bottlenecks in BAU system
• Strong background in Integration technologies and platforms such as Mulesoft
• Expertise in Integration patterns involving files(using FTP, SFTP, MoveIT), MQ, CDC, Message Bus, Hub & Spoke, Pub/Sub
• Experience in implementation of Security standards for Data in Transit & Rest such as TLS / SSL, Data Encryption
• Knowledge in MQ & AMQ concepts such as RabbitMQ & Oracle MQ
• Expertise Knowledge in Data Management workflow & integration such as Data Lake, ETL , Data Ingestion, Sharding, Data Stream, Data Catalogue, Data Cleansing, Data Analytics, Batch, Scheduling
• Implementation knowledge on principles such as ACID, SOLID, OWASP
• Knowledge on UK GDPR, PII, PCI-DSS data standards
• Implementation of designs related to Batch processing patterns involving Talend, Databricks, Snowflake or similar
• Experience of running GDPR related projects involving Data Sourcing, Validations, Integration, Data Disposition, Auditing & Reporting
• Ability to treat Data as an Asset and Architect & provide Solutions aligned to it • Strong working knowledge in Java 8+ with Clean Architecture, Mockito, Java Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Apache Camel
• needs to possess an expert depth and breadth of knowledge regarding multiple technologies and their inter-relationships, e.g.: Web applications, Java & Oracle.
• Extensive experience working in Java, microservice architecture, containerisation, enterprise integration patterns, data storage in a highly available, distributed products.
• Cloud native delivery skills following open standards in – Containers As a Service/PaaS/IaaS, AWS CDK, Fargate, Secrets manager, Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, MongoDB Atlassian, Serverless Functions and data insight solutions.
• Experience in designing systems for integration and re-use, using frameworks/standards, technologies and design patterns such as API Gateways, REST, Message Brokers and token-based security.
• Expertise in Auth & Auth principles & tools such as SAML, OpenID, OAuth, JWT, OKTA, AWS Cognito, Hashicorp Vault
• Designing solution and leading digital delivery teams to using Agile and DevOps methodologies to ensure automation and delivery pipelines flowing from development, testing, infrastructure as code to automated deployment
• A demonstrable record of designing solutions to key non-functional requirements including cyber/security policies, resilience, logging, errors and scalability abiding SLA
• Experience in creating & guiding in Architecture Artefacts such as Tech/Arch Roadmap/Strategy, High Level Design, LLD, Estimation, Product Evaluation Matrix, Gap Analysis, Performance Matrix
• Enterprise Architecture knowledge and practical exposure to TOGAF or Zachman