Lead Technical Architect

Job Summary & Purpose:

The Met Office is fundamentally dependent on its technology to support delivery of services to customers and stakeholders. Within the Products & Services domain, cutting edge technologies enable the development and delivery of innovative products and services for our customers, helping them make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

Reporting directly to the CTO, the Principal Technical Architect will lead the overall technical design and delivery across the Products & Services domain, ensuring technical coherence whilst identifying and resolving gaps that may risk ultimate achievement of benefits or threaten longer term sustainability. The post holder will work with Lead Technical Architects and delivery teams, including external partners, in the delivery of the projects and programmes evolving the domain, ensuring alignment to our strategy, relevant standards and the overarching enterprise architecture as set out by the Enterprise Design function.

The Principal Technical Architect provides design leadership and assurance across a business domain in support of the delivery of Met Office strategy.

Job responsibilities include:

•Lead the overall technical design approach for Products & Services. Ensure coherence and alignment between activities across that domain and alignment to enterprise design standards and approaches.

•Design and evolve future state technical capability roadmaps for achievement of programme outcomes aligned to business capability roadmaps.

•Support programme and project managers in shaping delivery activities to ensure a smooth transition of work into operational capability including advising on changes across technology, information, people, process and environmental data.

•Deliver design assurance across services and systems developed within the domain to ensure quality and alignment to relevant roadmaps, government, industry and organisational standards.

•Contribute to the development of organisational design guardrails drawing on insight from industry and Government standards and policies.

•Lead and participate in the architecture community to share knowledge and practice, mentoring Lead Technical Architects and aspiring Lead Technical Architects to support skills and career development.

•Collaborate with other external organisations including other government organisations to share and develop best practice, fostering a culture of learning.