Senior Technical Architect

Job description

The HMRC Modern Workplace Platform team are looking for two Senior Technical Architects to join the architecture team. The Modern Workplace Platform team are engaged in an exciting period of modernisation of the departmental enterprise IT platform and the services we provide, placing us in the vanguard of HMRCs modernisation strategy. This ambition is enabling us to significantly grow our team of architects, and we are therefore seeking up to two motivated technical architects who share our excitement about the opportunities we can offer. We are in the process of transitioning from a traditional Microsoft on-premises infrastructure architecture onto a cloud hosted modern workplace platform, which enables us to support HMRC’s flexible working environment. That environment includes: Personal User Devices, currently using on prem device management systems such as AD/MECM/GPO, moving to modern cloud-based device management tools and technologies such as Intune, Windows Autopilot, Apple Business Manager all underpinned by EntraID. We need to provide user device choice, zero trust access, cloud device management and effective assistive technology. Application and desktop virtualisation, moving towards cloud hosted virtualised devices. Enterprise Audio Visual collaboration tools (moving to Teams Rooms and in room AV technology) and Intelligent Building IT integration. Internal Identity and directory services (Active Directory, PingDS), including multiple directory integration and synchronisation, moving towards EntraID and modern identity management and tools. Enterprise productivity, messaging and collaboration tools, primarily Microsoft 365. Device and Infrastructure Management and Monitoring systems (Device Build, Software Delivery, Security systems, Device and User Experience monitoring).

Responsibilities

• Creating high level solution designs, service designs and technical roadmaps, underpinning our Modern Workplace architecture, and supporting HMRC’s IT strategy.
• Providing technical governance for new or updated solutions utilising existing group platforms, the introduction of new services or removal of end of life services.
• Delivering technical consultancy throughout the service lifecycle from project to service delivery and defining best practice and standards for the platform.
• Maintaining technology currency in your areas of focus through market research and vendor relationships and using these insights to maintain roadmaps and direction.
• Communicating the vision and working with customers to ensure business needs are represented in the technology roadmaps.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Extensive experience in authoring and updating technical designs and roadmaps, supporting HMRC strategic objectives.
• Proven experience of providing internal consultancy on potential uses and appropriateness of infrastructure technologies and driving benefits from these technologies.
• Understanding of large scale infrastructure technologies including specific experience in at least one of the following listed below:
• End User Device Configuration, Software Delivery, Hybrid Cloud Computing (Azure, AWS), Infrastructure Security Controls, Device Management Processes and Tools and Internal Identity Management.
• A broad IT Infrastructure background in solutions or technical architecture roles working within one or more of the domains listed within the job summary.
• The ability to work in challenging and unpredictable environments, playing a key role in influencing strategic decision making and understand strategic consequences of IT decisions.