Her Majesty's Passport Office - Architect Owner

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Who Speclialist Work With You will work as part of a Technical Design Authority who are responsible for specific domains. They 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). Where the Work Takes Place London, Westminster. Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements Typically on-site with wider team and clients in an Agile environment. Some site visits. Use of Confluence, Jira and ardoq are the tools used to track progress against deliverables. Work Location London, Westminster. Security Clearance SC Clearance is required. HM Passport Office will support the clearance process. Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience Have in-depth experience of defining and implementing target and transition architectures for Mission critical legacy transformation projects Understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and dev-ops cultures Have in depth experience of cloud architectures and best practices Understanding of how to influence senior management and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences In depth experience of defining NFRs Experience of Microservice architectures and Open Source Nice to Haves Experience of HMPO systems or similar government operational systems Experience of GDS best practices No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers Be transparent and collaborative Be comfortable standing up for their discipline Have a no-blame culture and take responsibility for their work Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range