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Shared Platform Services Principal Architect
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs —Newcastle upon Tyne
- £73,165 - £81,535 a year
- Part-time
- Azure
- Presentation skills
- APIs
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Technical Architect - Newcastle
Accenture —Newcastle upon Tyne
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- DevOps
- Presentation skills
- Mentoring
Senior Architectural Technologist
Buzz Recruit —Durham
- £32,000 - £42,000 a year
- Full-time
- AutoCAD
- Driving
- Mentoring
- Free parking
- Work from home
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Principal Architect
Renaissance Learning EMEA APAC —Houghton le Spring
- Hybrid work
- Travel
- APIs
- School
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Deal Architect
Version 1 —Newcastle upon Tyne
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Computer Science
- PMP
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
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Winthrop Technologies —Blyth
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
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Version 1 —Newcastle upon Tyne
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
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Scrumconnect Consulting —Newcastle upon Tyne
- £76,000 - £85,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Master's degree
- AWS
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Shared Platform Services Principal Architect

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs -
Newcastle upon Tyne

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Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£73,165 - £81,535 a year
2 days ago

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Paid volunteer time
Childcare

Qualifications

Power BI
Cloud infrastructure
Azure
Presentation skills
APIs
Design patterns

Full job description

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Reference number

470015

Salary

£67,730 - £81,535

National: £67,730 - £75,480 London: £73,165 - £81,535 plus industry leading pension and benefits.

This post offers successful candidates the opportunity to be considered for an additional Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Skills Supplement. The level of the awarded supplement is determined following a separate skills assessment process, the outcome of which has no impact on the decision to make a job offer. This digital capability supplement ranges from £0 to £28,995 and you may be awarded a pay supplement within this range based on results of your additional skills assessment.

For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading Salary

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 6

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

DEFRA - DGCS - Digital, Data, Technology & Security

Type of role

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
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Location

Bristol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Reading, Warrington, York

About the job

Job summary

Defra is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.

Digital, Data, Technology and Security (DDTS) is the trusted team for digital across the entire Defra Group.

We have around 1000 colleagues across DDTS and our ambition is to make it easier and faster than ever for people to interact with Defra. If you are ready to drive innovation and push boundaries, we want to hear from you. Join us and together we will create a great place for living, and a green and healthy future for all.

Find out more about DDTS:

Defra digital, data and technology blog

Defra Jobs

We are Government Digital and Data Candidate Information Pack V3 - 1

Job description

The Principal Architect is responsible for the end to end design, assurance and strategic direction of technical architecture and cloud-based re-usable services across Defra Shared Platform Services (SPS), representing Group Infrastructure & Operations (GIO) within the wider DDTS Architecture function while contributing to cross-domain architectural strategy and standards.

As a key member of the GIO Platforms team, the role contributes to the roadmap for Shared Platform adoption, evolution and reuse across the organisation, ensuring alignment with business needs and provision of value driven services in support of an expanding portfolio of externally facing digital services.

The role provides technical leadership across multiple platforms (including Customer, Identity, Data Platform and Integration), ensuring that systems are secure, scalable, interoperable, and adhere to organisational strategy and governance.

Person specification

Responsibilities:

Provide architectural leadership in implementation of technical architecture and reusable cloud-based services.

- Support and oversee solution architects and technical teams in the completion of high-quality architectural artefacts - including Solution Overviews, Conceptual Service Designs, Architectural Design Records, High-Level System Records and Security documentation.

Lead the design and support the build of technical architecture for Shared Platform Services using established technologies and innovation, applying expertise in emerging platform technologies and innovation (with awareness of how these are used and adopted in other organisations).
Translate complex business and technical requirements into coherent solution designs, guide technical teams, influence governance decisions, and ensure that architectural artefacts meet required quality standards.
Conduct deep technical investigations, represent technical teams to senior stakeholders, and ensure alignment with broader digital and organisational strategy. Identify trends, wider industry practices and innovation to inform the architectural approach and ensure alignment to broader strategy.
Design systems characterised by manageable levels of business and technical complexity. Identify reuse opportunities and promote shared components across the organisation.
Drive architectural assurance, quality control, and risk identification across systems. Make and influence decisions based on managed levels of risk and complexity, follow governance procedures and take responsibility for technical assurance and risk identification across services. Ensure that standards, patterns, policies and designs are applied correctly, challenged where appropriate, and influence improvements in governance processes where appropriate.
Communicate with stakeholders at technical and non‑technical levels across the business and multiple delivery programmes across the organisation. Communicate complex architecture to varied audiences, including senior leaders, and speak on behalf of technical teams and build strong relationships with both direct and indirect stakeholders.
Champion architectural coherence across shared services, ensuring decisions taken within GIO support Defra-wide strategic direction preventing creation of siloed or tactical solutions. Provide architectural leadership beyond operational boundaries, ensuring infrastructure, platform and shared services designs align with enterprise strategy, security principles, service tiering, and long-term technology roadmaps.

Skills and experience:

As a senior member of the platforms team, the role requires a broad technical knowledge of platform technologies, as well as expertise in implementation and delivery of reusable cloud-based services - including, but not limited to:

Microsoft tech stack (including Azure SaaS and PaaS services)
Amazon Cloud Infrastructure / Services
Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Services
Identity Management - inc. Identity & Access Management (IdAM), Identity Services and authentication protocols (inc. OIDC) and Microsoft Identity services.
Microsoft Cloud Service for Data inc. MS Fabric, Purview and Power BI
Data ingestion, modelling and visualisation
MS Dynamics 365
Power Platforms
Dell Boomi Managed Cloud Services
Azure API Management (APIM)
Azure DevOps

Significant experience leading architecture for large‑scale digital or platform services.
Demonstrate a good understanding of current and emerging platform technologies, including awareness of how these are used and adopted in other organisations.
Experience in implementation of shared and reusable platforms, including those relating to Customer, Identity, Data and Integration services.
Experience in the development and application of reusable design patterns and producing high‑quality architectural documentation.
Experience working within an architecture practice, defining and evolving standards, patterns, reference architectures and target-state designs, and providing architectural assurance across complex programmes and portfolios.
Proven experience authoring and reviewing architectural artefacts, including High-Level Designs (HLDs), strategy papers, roadmaps, and options papers, ensuring documentation is clear, evidence-based, and aligned to organisational strategy and governance frameworks.

Selection process

The Civil Service marks each element of the selection process on a merit basis. You can visit the gov.uk website for further information on the Civil Service rating scale.

Ensure you have tailored your CV and Personal Statement to the 'skills and experience' section of the job advert by providing examples on how you are suitable for the role using the STAR method.

Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your personal statement, how you meet these requirements, as the information you provide will form a key part when the panel is scoring your application.

For further information on STAR, you can check out our Hints and Tips document.

Application process

As part of the application process, you will be assessed on your experience. This will be evaluated by looking at your CV and personal statement, so please provide the following and ensure your experience is clearly demonstrated:

A CV
A 500-word Personal Statement: Referring to the 'skills and experience' sections of the job advert, please demonstrate how you are suitable for the role by providing relevant examples.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Sift

Sift will begin shortly after the advert closes.

Should there be a large number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted using your personal statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment or interview.

Interview

If successful at sift, you will be invited to an interview where you will be assessed on the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed below, as well as Strengths.

Interview dates are to be confirmed. Please note that these may be subject to change.

Interviews will be held virtually on Microsoft Teams.

As part of the recruitment process you will be required to do a 5-minute presentation. Full details will be provided later within the process.

For further information on Success Profiles, you can visit the links below and watch our videos on DefraJobs.

Behaviours

Technical Skills

Strengths

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Making architectural decisions - practitioner
Architect for the whole context - practitioner
Architecture communication - communication between the technical and non-technical) - expert
Strategy design - practitioner
Community collaboration - practitioner
Technical design throughout the life cycle - expert

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £67,730, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £19,621 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

25 days leave (rising to 30 days over 5 years) plus bank holidays.

A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.

Season ticket loan for public transport.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

For further information on the selection process for this role, please refer to the person specification section of the job advert.

Location

As part of the pre-employment process for this post, successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. The agreed contractual workplace is then the substantive and permanent place of work for the successful candidate(s).

Where the location is National the successful appointee should discuss and agree an appropriate contractual location in line with both Defras location policy and site capacity, prior to proceeding with pre-employment processes.

The agreed amount of time spent at a workplace for this post will reflect the requirement for Civil Servants to spend at least 60% of their working time in an organisation workplace with the option to work the remaining time flexibly from home. Working time spent at a workplace may include time spent at other organisational locations including field-based operational locations, together with supplier, customer or partner locations. This is a non-contractual agreement which is consistent with common Civil Service expectations.

Travel costs to non-contractual workplaces will be subject to departmental travel and subsistence policies. Travel costs to contractual workplaces are the responsibility of the employee.

The successful candidate is required to carry out all their duties from a UK location, and cannot do so from an overseas location at any time.

Defra includes the core department, APHA, RPA, Cefas and VMD.

Reserve list

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Near miss

Candidates who are judged to be a near miss at interview may be considered for other positions in Defra which may be at a lower grade, but have a potential skills match.

Merit Lists

Where more than one location is advertised, candidates will be posted in merit order by location. You will be asked to state your location preference on your application.

Salary

New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.

Childcare Vouchers

Any move to DEFRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

Visa Sponsorship Statement

Please take note that Defra does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

Criminal Record Check

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

Reasonable Adjustment

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the Assistance required section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Accessibility

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Internal Fraud Database Check

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicants details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
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)
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)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : [email protected]
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact Government Recruitment Services via email: [email protected]
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: here

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