Role: Chief Architect
Type: Contract
Stance: Outside IR35
Location: Gloucester/Hybrid
Clearance: BPSS / SC
Start Date: ASAP
Rate: £700 - £775 per day
Responsibilities:
Working with senior client stakeholders to understand required technical capabilities and timelines across related sets of large scale Information Systems delivery programmes.
- Provide a leadership role within the client side team. Work with client side functional leads to develop and action time bound organisational capability delivery increments.
- Work with delivery project teams to identify opportunities to trial new ways of working. Identify lessons learned and feedback into approach.
- Provide outward facing support into Army HQ, Defence Digital and the Army end customer. Cohere approach with transformation activities running outside of immediate client side delivery team.
- Identify required skills to sustain gains made. Support recruitment as necessary and inform subsequent capability delivery vehicles.
- Support effective technical decision making as required and present clear ways ahead for stakeholders. Seek to empower others (client team members and colleagues providing client-side support).
- Help drive improvements in the operation of key delivery programmes to become 'architecturally led' and to benefit from System of Systems & service thinking.
Skills & Experience:
- Understanding of the Deployed and Tactical Military Domains in areas such as ISTAR, Communications and Information Systems (CIS) and Cyber
- Awareness of relevant technology markets?
- Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to create influence
- Ability to build constructive relationships with clients, including adapting to their culture and ways of working?
- Excellent understanding of Defence Digital & Military customers and their business processes, specifically: Army's Intelligence, Planning and Targeting Cycles and associated doctrine.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to summarise, write and deliver concise technical information and to apply appropriate data visualisation techniques?
- Experience within one or more of MOD environments (Air, Land, Maritime, C4ISR)?
- Ability to innovate and develop roadmaps
- Proven track record in enterprise architecture, identifying opportunities for cost saving and reducing technical debt
- Knowledge and understanding of Military Communications and Information Systems (CIS), and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems
- Understanding of both the military customer and defence procurement.
- Experience in the application of ITIL in the MoD domain
- Understanding of Defence Digital Common Approach to Architecture (CAA)
- Understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) (Desirable)
- Ability to identify and assess risks and to advise on risk mitigation strategies?
- Broad Knowledge of a range of enterprise-scale ICT delivery mechanisms and software technologies (including Application Hosting, Big Data, DevOps and Virtualised Cloud Services)?
- Good awareness of Safety and Security Management practices in the MoD domain.
- Hands on experience of configuration management & baseline development through lifecycle on complex programmes
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