64772 - Technical Architect

The national salary range is £51,767 - £59,590, London salary range is £55,720 - £64,135. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
Total pay in the range of '£50,001 to £60,000, £60,001 and over' are subject to capability, skills and experience. Salary may consist of base pay and a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA)
1
12 Months
National
National
NATIONAL
Please note: Some of our MoJ Office locations, such as our Liverpool Justice Collaboration Centre, require higher levels of National Security Vetting. The MoJ is working to open more Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices over time. Click here to learn more about where our currently open Justice Collaboration Centres and Justice Satellite Offices are, to identify where you may be based and understand National Security Vetting requirements of each location.
Grade 7
Grade 7
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time, Flexible Working
Digital

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Technical Architect

Location: National*

Closing Date: 14th October

Interviews: Multiple single stage interview days will be available on the 29th Sep, 4th Oct, 7th Oct, 12th Oct, 17th Oct, 24th Oct

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £55,720 - £79,180 which may include an allowance up to £23,460

            National: £51,767 - £72,846 which may include an allowance up to £21,079

Working pattern: Full time/Part time/Flexible

Contract Type: Permanent

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found here

The Role:

We’re recruiting for Technical Architects at various levels at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative LAA, Prison and Probation teams.

We’re recruiting for Technical Architects who can provide the next generation of technical leadership to deliver Digital services at the heart of our democracy. We are part of teams that quickly deliver legal aid, compassionately care for prisoners and probationers, and sensitively help people who are victims – all while working together within our profession to manage a technical estate with over 800 systems, ranging from critical legacy to bleeding-edge, user-centred, accessible Web applications.

As a Technical Architect at MOJ Digital & Technology you will be designing and delivering digital services that make a genuine difference to people’s lives. You’ll define how we build and operate our technology, keeping up to date with the latest technologies and trends.

With user needs at the heart of everything, you will help us transform Government for the future. Working with multidisciplinary teams, you’ll be helping define how we do what we do, and making sure that our systems are built to be changed rapidly.

Our Technical Architects have a good understanding of a broad range of technologies and are able to converse easily with and translate between non-technical stakeholders and technical practitioners. They are able to switch between different problems and responsibilities, and ideally have working knowledge of several programming languages. Technical Architects use their practical working knowledge of modern, cloud-first architectures, and know how to build applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer. Our architects are also champions for agile delivery, automation, security, quality, and the value of reducing technical debt, all while embracing exciting opportunities for innovation as part of our drive to reduce our reliance on fragile legacy systems.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

  • Undertake structured evaluation of technical issues, translating this evaluation into technical designs that describe a solution
  • Look for opportunities to collaborate and reuse components, communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Guide technical teams and deliver user-focused services in an agile environment
  • Transform government into a more agile organisation by helping to embed modern development practices
  • Design and development of projects of various sizes, defining how they interact with their surroundings (including other projects and teams), and how they evolve over time
  • Question entrenched practices and influence choices, looking for deeper underlying problems, and larger opportunities for digital transformation
  • Align your teams’ work with department and government technology strategy, participating in strategic technical choices and questioning previous choices where needed
  • Help with hiring, taking part in recruitment of other developers and technical architects
  • Additionally, a Senior Technical Architect will:
  • Define strategy and assure our services
  • Collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge
  • Mentor and coach junior colleagues

 If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification:

 Essential:

  • Communicating technical information effectively with senior leaders, delivery teams, and non-technical users and stakeholders
  • Having passion for defining and enabling strategic technical solutions
  • Delivering digital services with Agile teams
  • Working knowledge of several programming languages
  • Creating architectural design and technical guidance
  • Introducing practices such as DDD, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps to teams
  • Applying knowledge at many levels of the web stack, from front-end code down to infrastructure and networking
  • Building consensus between diverse and often conflicting interests, to achieve agreement on technical plans
  • Using automation to provide continuous delivery, assuring security and quality
  • Guiding or mentoring technical teams and supporting your colleagues, whether one-to-one or in groups
  • Enabling cloud-first architectures, and building applications to take advantage of the opportunities they offer
  • Advocating open source concepts and technologies
  • Governance of design and architecture for digital service delivery teams

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

How to Apply:

Candidates must submit a CV and Statement of Suitability (up to 750 words) which describe how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Seeing the Bigger Picture

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the Leadership behaviour will be conducted prior to the sift.

Terms & Conditions:

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

London: May include an allowance up to £23,460

National: May include an allowance up to £21,079

14/10/2022, 23:55 hours.

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 64772.

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://jobs.jobvite.com/careers/justicedigitalandtechnology/job/oN92kfw2?__jvst=Job%20Board&__jvsd=Civil_Service_jobs .

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) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· 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 (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.