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Summary of the work Architect owner overseeing the delivery of strategic capabilities for HMPO's transformation, working closely with in-house Agile delivery teams delivering cloud hosted open source solutions. Specialist role Technical Architect Expected Contract Length 12 months Latest start date Wednesday 12 July 2017 Who Speclialist Work With Part of the TDA team, working in an agile environment. Will need to collaborate closely with delivery teams in a multi-supplier environment. HMPO is moving from a large outsourced SI arrangement to an in-house, largely cloud based and open source based solutions delivered iteratively. Legacy technologies inc Oracle and Tibco. Strategic technology stack is based on Microservices architecture including Java, Node JS, ELK, Postgres, MongoDB, AWS, Puppet, Chef. What Specialists Work On Work Packages include: 1. Acting as the lead architect for specific capabilities. 2. Guiding the creation and evolution of the architecture of the solution that the team is working on. 3. Ensuring the solution will be easy to support by encouraging good design and refactoring to minimize technical debt. 4. lead identification and determine strategies to mitigate key project technical risks. 5. Leading the initial architecture envisioning effort at the beginning of the project and supports the initial requirements envisioning effort (especially evolving the non-functional requirements for the solution). Skills & Experience • Have in-depth experience of defining and implementing target architectures and roadmaps for Mission critical legacy transformation projects • In depth experience agile environments, continual delivery techniques and dev-ops culture and GDS best practices • Have in depth experience of cloud architectures, microservice architecture and best practices • Strong development background especially in our chosen stack Nice to Haves Experience of HMPO systems Work Location Westminster Working Arrangments Typically on-site, working with the TDA and the Agile Delivery teams Following assessment of the requirement using the HMRC tool, this role is considered to be outside of IR35. Security Clearance SC Additional T&Cs A guide of around £800 is the maximum day rate for this role No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • Work in a multi-supplier team • Can work with clients with low technical expertise • Be transparent and collaborative • Focus on delivery Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 55% Cultural fit 20% Price 25% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet.