Home Office HODDaT Service Architect

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Summary of the work To work with the team for a Major Programme to define, document and agree with all stakeholders and ongoing service architecture. You will also be responsible for managing the introduction of new Service, working as part of a small team. Specialist role Service manager Latest start date 30/11/2016 subject to clearance Maximum Day Rate £850 for an exceptional candidate Who Speclialist Work With The internal Programme team What Specialists Work On Providing a specialist Service Architecture for a major Programme to update a piece of critical national infrastructure. Skills & Experience • The successful candidate will be an experienced IT professional. • In depth service management experience & understanding of ITIL (V3). • Comprehensive and recent experience designing and implementing service architectures for complex systems in large government departments or other large organisations • Demonstrable track record of successfully taking an evolutionary approach to service architecture. • Strong communications, relationship building, negotiation and influencing skills; able to ensure that advice regarding the service specialism is acted upon. • A creative and pragmatic approach to service design. • Ability to absorb new technical, commercial and business concepts quickly, and work with them. • Recognised expertise in service model development and its application within a business environment e.g. intelligent customer functions. • A sound, broad knowledge of IT and an excellent understanding of how support services impact on other business functions. • Demonstrable experience of transforming business needs into contractual requirements. Nice to Haves • • ITIL V3 Expert Qualification • • Experience with automated configuration management, deployment and testing solutions. • • Experience with open source solutions and community. • • Knowledge of Agile development, deployment and operations lifecycle • • Experience using and deploying on Cloud based platforms • • Working in a multi-disciplinary team. • • Experience of providing or managing outsourced service management services. Work Location Home Office premises within the M25 – currently 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF, Metro Point, Sydenham Road, Croydon CR0 2EU and Hendon Data Centre, Aerodrome Road, London, NW9 5JE Working Arrangments Work alongside existing team and project manager. Expected to be 5 days per week based from 2 Marsham St. initially. Security Clearance To have or undergo SC Clearance No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • Works well in a collaborative team • Demonstrate courage (e.g. can express controversial views, confront reality, and make tough decisions, question actions inconsistent with group behaviours, candid about progress/estimates) • Demonstrate responsibility (e.g. act like a leader, serve your team, provide solutions to problems, engage in external/internal environments, seek the best for the organisation beyond your team) • Demonstrate vulnerability (e.g. declare uncertainty, fear, recognise mistakes, apologise, and acknowledge weaknesses) Demonstrate simplicity (e.g. take simple steps to goals, do less but better, mitigate failures, talk straight with respect) • Demonstrate excellence (e.g. seek actionable feedback, set challenging targets, know users, deliver cost effective high level customer satisfaction) • Demonstrate enthusiasm (e.g. bring whole self to work, celebrate success, share passion and energy with others, optimistic) Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 50% Cultural fit 20% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers 1. What is the expected contract length? An initial 12 months with the option to extend to the maximum two year term. 2. The specialist role has been put under service manager as oppose to architect and for that reason a number of suppliers will find it an issue when it comes to the price, £850pd is fine but a service manager holds less weight (we can charge up to £600 making it impossible to find an architect), can this be changed so it comes under the correct category, as we have found issues in the past when under the wrong category. The role has been categorised as Service Manager rather than a Technical architect as the role is much more aligned with the service manager specification.