Principal Applications Architect

Hays are working with a client looking to hire a Principal Application Architect on a contract basis.

FOR THIS ROLE YOU WILL NEED TO UNDERGO A 3 - 6 MONTH VETTING PROCESS.
If you are in a permanent role or will be finishing your contract in the next 6 months, then please register your interest.

In this role:
Your team will lead on the design and modelling of strategic and tactical architectures for delivery, development and support of projects.
You will also work closely with the User Experience team and function (a new entity) within the department - which will identify Synergy Opportunities for improving User Experiences across our organisation.

Reporting to the Head of Architecture, the Principal Application Architect is responsible for the following key areas;

• Lead the design and modelling of strategic and tactical architectures for delivery, development, and support of projects.
• Build the long-term strategic roadmap for application architecture.

Therefore, prioritising the removal of our Technical Debt.

• Lead a team to develop End-to-End Solution Designs to meet business objectives and great customer outcomes.
• Ensuring they adhere to all architectural, security and quality standards.
• Work alongside the User Experience team, to identify ways we can improve on existing solutions/systems/processes for the benefit of the organisation and the public we serve.
• Engagement with business stakeholders when ideas are conceived; and lead in shaping them into deliverable outcomes.
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the organisation.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead on architecture for applications and security, including the capture of existing as-is architecture states, and the evolution/transition states required to achieve the to-be future state.
• Be accountable for the design/architecture deliverables created by the team - Thus ensuring that design deliverables are fit for purpose in scheduled governance meetings.
• Also ensuring they meet our high quality standards and align to our end-state blueprints.
• Manage the Architecture Repository, ensuring that roadmaps for as-is, and to-be states are created/maintained/reportable/measurable.

You will need experience in Azure/AWS for this role.
The role will be based 2 days a week onsite in Birmingham and will pay up to £550 per day inside IR35. The contract will initially run for 6 months.

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