Home Office - Her Majesty’s Passport Office – Architect Owner

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Who Speclialist Work With They will work as part of a Technical Design Authority who are responsible for specific domains. They will need to collaborate closely with delivery teams and business stakeholders across the enterprise 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. What Specialists Work On 1. Architect owner for a mission critical orchestration system 2. Owning improvements to or our Digital Customer Service capability 3. Collaborating with Digital Data and Technology on the delivery of technology strategies 4. Championing best practices and assuring alignment with these across digital portfolio Where the Work Takes Place London Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements The arrangement is for 3 days per week 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 We work in an engaging and collaborative environment where outputs require teams to own deliverables Work Location London Security Clearance SC Clearance is required. HM Passport Office will support the clearance process Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience 1 - Have in-depth experience of defining and implementing target architectures and roadmaps for Mission critical legacy transformation projects in large scale organisations 2 - In depth experience agile environments, continual delivery techniques and dev-ops culture 3 - Have in depth experience of cloud architectures, microservice architecture and best practices, especially for deployment 4 – Have extensive experience of using AWS environments and services (both native AWS and non-native AWS) 5 - Strong provable development background (5+ years), must include Java and Node.JS and associated technologies Nice to Haves 1. Experience of HMPO systems or similar scale government systems 2. 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 Interview Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range the maximum day rate has been left blank intentionally, we will assess the day rate for suppliers using the evaluation weighting we have disclosed on the requirements.