Lead Network Domain Architect

Do you have strong technical Network design knowledge and experience?
Do you like to engage with a variety of architects and technical leads working on a wide range of different solutions?
Can you provide useful, actionable input and advice to teams building or buying network solutions and technologies?
Are you good at engaging with senior influential architecture and product stakeholders?
As the Lead Domain Architect for Networks in DWP Digital, you will lead, manage and deliver aspects of this domain’s architecture activities to meet customer needs.
You will develop strategies, blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns for DWP networks.
You will share your Networks domain knowledge and experience to drive IT strategy, including definition of the tools and techniques most appropriate for particular environments.
You will be part of a small core team of Domain Architects helping to define, and ensure conformance to strategy of, DWP Digital solutions., As the Lead Domain Architect for Networks in DWP Digital, you will lead, manage and deliver aspects of this domain’s architecture activities to meet customer needs.
The successful candidate for this role will:
+ Identify, capture, share and refine reference patterns and architectures, and technology choices, to ensure consistent and coherent architecture design, contributing to the Enterprise Architecture.
+ Govern solution designs, approving architecture decisions and technology choices.
+ Support the delivery of a Networks technology roadmap.
+ Research, understand and communicate network domain-related IT industry trends - emergence of new technology challenges and capabilities.
+ Provide expert advice to Solution Architects within Delivery project teams on the network design elements of their solutions.
+ Consult a wide range of stakeholders, including Solution Architects, to create solution options and recommendations during project discovery and inception phases.
+ Work closely with projects to ensure their design artefacts are at the appropriate standard for the Design Authority and ensure Network Design patterns are correctly referenced., + Leading and governing network architecture design of business-critical IT projects/services in a large, complex UK central government or private sector organisation.
+ Successfully presenting network solutions at governance forums.
+ Successfully influencing & driving agreement across senior business and technical stakeholders
+ Networks strategies, blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns.
+ Network service infrastructure, including cloud native networking (AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI), routing, switching, managed WAN and LAN design, Ethernet, wireless solutions.
+ Network Protocols, Standards and Hardware configuration.

Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
o Communicating and Influencing
o Working Together

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
o Governance & Assurance
o Relationship Management, If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed above.
You will be asked to do a 5 minute presentation on a Domain Architecture design you have led.
Interviews will take place from Mid/Late-June onwards.
Further information:
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.
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Reasonable Adjustment
At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
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Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
o UK nationals
o nationals of the Republic of Ireland
o nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
o nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
o nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
o individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
o Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring.
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more., DWP colleagues will have the opportunity to join HASSRA, a vibrant and successful organisation that provides a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). It also has an important part to play in helping us achieve a healthy work-life balance and wellbeing in the workplace.
Salary Information
Pay for this role is from £69,869 to £77,740.
The maximum salary for the grade is £77,740, however a Digital Allowance of up to £12,255 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.
Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.