Lead Architect RBKC616680

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Salary range: £75,252 - £86,076 per annumWork location: LondonHours per week: 36Contract type: PermanentClosing date: 23 June 2024Interview date: Week commencing 1 July 2024About Us:Shape, champion and drive a tech strategy that spans every Council service.At the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people at the heart of everything we do. As part of our ambition to be the best Council, we’re determined to develop a comprehensive IT roadmap, ensuring our services benefit from the best technologies. Introducing new standards, frameworks and design principles, and adopting developing tech such as AI, will enable us to deliver secure, efficient solutions across every service we offer. You can play a vital role in this.The Role:As Lead Architect, you will be at the heart of crafting and promoting a Council-wide technology strategy. One that aligns with our overarching goals while meeting the specific needs of each service. From strategic planning to developing the IT roadmap and solving challenges, you will have the opportunity to influence the direction that we take as we work to introduce new technologies and services.You will join a relatively new team and work closely with technology consultants, strategic business relationship managers and data specialists. You will set standards and ensure we build a useable toolkit, using appropriate architect tools to document and communicate our strategic intent. Your expertise help ensure that we adopt a more modern stack, bringing about lasting improvements to the services we provide.This is a hands-on role, in which you will champion enterprise architecture across departments. Solutions will span services ranging from housing, to health, to finance and beyond. Recognised for your subject matter expertise, you will engage with people across and beyond our Council to help us build a cohesive tech ecosystem that supports growth, adaptability and innovation.You will bring to the role extensive knowledge and experience as an architect in complex enterprise environments. Ideally, you will have worked in a range of industries or sectors. You will demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of technologies, with deep enthusiasm for using emerging tech – balanced by an appreciation of what is practically possible.Your passion for this mission will be evident in your communication style – from explaining highly technical topics to diverse stakeholders, to guiding a multi-disciplinary technology team, to curating, communicating and driving a shared technology vision to business and tech teams. In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme, and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s alone will not be considered for this role.We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
Application process
Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.
Additional information
We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email:
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