Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea
As a Senior Technical Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architectural vision and strategy both for future projects and day to day operations. You will lead the design, development, and implementation of high-quality technical solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements. Your expertise will guide the technical direction of projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
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This role will be within the platform team and the key area of responsibility will be the Azure Infrastructure that supports our Microsoft power platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 environments. This role will there for require experience within these technologies and within a technical Dev Ops role. Currently this workload is outsourced, and we will be looking for the new role holder to work as part of the platform team alongside another Senior technical Architect define the team with the aim to look at opportunities to insource
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Additional Information
This role can be based in Bristol, Swansea, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Leeds or Birmingham, your presence at one of these locations will form part of the working arrangements agreed with you. We operate a hybrid working model giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work. Our expectation is that you will spend a minimum 60% of your time at your base location. Visits to other DVSA sites or work locations count towards this.
Government Digital and Data Profession Pay Framework
This role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Capability–Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance.
The base pay is £54,857. In addition to this, the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £25,543.
The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.
Here are more details on the pay framework.
We are looking for individuals who have:
There may be an element of travel associated with this role to other DVSA offices, with some infrequent overnight stays.
Please take note that DVSA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
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