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Home Office – Her Majesty’s Passport Office – Architect Owner (TA)

Closing date for applications: 12/12/2019
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Technical Architect
Summary of the work
 The Architect Owner Architect owner for mission critical systems Guiding the creation and evolution of the software architecture in HMPO Collaborating with Digital Data and Technology to ensure our system architecture meets Home Office standards Championing best practices and assuring alignment with these across digital portfolio
Latest start date
 06/01/2020
Expected contract length
 3 days per week. 12 months initially, then up to a further 12 months depending on business needs.
Location
 London
Organisation the work is for
 Her Majesty’s Passport Office
Maximum day rate
 Please specify required day rate
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
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Who the specialist will 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 the specialist will 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
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 London
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
Security clearance
 SC Clearance is required. HM Passport Office will support the clearance process
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many 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 methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • Have in-depth experience of defining and implementing target architectures and roadmaps for Mission critical legacy transformation projects in large scale organisations
  • In depth experience agile environments, continual delivery techniques and dev-ops culture
  • Have in depth experience of cloud architectures, microservice architecture and best practices, especially for deployment
  • Have extensive experience of using AWS environments and services (both native AWS and non-native AWS)
  • Strong provable development background (5+ years), must include Java and Node.JS and associated technologies
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • Experience of HMPO systems or similar scale government systems
  • Experience of GDS best practices
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 12/12/2019

Home Office – Her Majesty’s Passport Office – Architect Owner (TA)

Closing date for applications: 12/12/2019


Specialist role:

Technical Architect

Location:

London

Organisation:

Her Majesty’s Passport Office

Maximum day rate:

Please specify required day rate
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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