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Job description
The Rural Payments Agency has a unique role within the UK economy and rural landscape. We pay farmers and land owners over £2 billion each year to support a thriving farming and food sector. We also administer over 40 different schemes that to help ensure a sustainable rural economy and communities.
You can be part of the work that is keeping our rural economy strong and have the opportunity work at the leading edge of the new digital government agenda. Behind the scenes here, our in-house IT experts keep things running smoothly - ensuring everyday essential technology is in place and effective, as well as introducing innovative and bespoke solutions to improve the service we deliver to our customers. Your role will be essential in this.
A career in the Rural Payments Agency offers on the job learning, exciting career development opportunities and comprehensive Civil Service benefits package, including:
- A generous annual leave allowance
- Membership of the Civil Service Sports and Social network and enjoyment of a range of associated benefits and discounts.
- Discounts for computing hardware and software.
- Civil Service Pension
- Flexible working arrangements to support a positive work/life balance
- Childcare vouchers
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Support with season ticket purchase
- Support with parking arrangements
The Architect will work within the I&T Architecture function within RPA, reporting to the Principal Technology Architect. The Technology Architecture function is a key component of the Agency’s Enterprise Architecture capability and will:
- Set technical policy and technical standards.
- Specify and recommend infrastructure and platform tools and technologies.
- Create and maintain an Approved Products List for the technical infrastructure.
- Create a technical infrastructure framework to support the business and information system needs of the RPA.
- Enforce the principles of good technical design.
- Identify and enforce opportunities to provide technology reuse.
- Ensure the preservation of strategic technology and technical infrastructure assets.
- Review the work of Project Technical Architects.
As the Post Holder you will:
- Undertake development of the assets for the technology architecture.
- Help ensure that the assets of the technology architecture are agreed and approved by the RPA EA governance mechanisms.
- Provide application and technology architecture expertise to the rest of the organisation.
- Collaborate with technical subject-matter experts on service-orientated architecture. (SOA) in the design of technical solutions for shared services.
- Collaborate with business, information and application architects to understand the changes to the technology architecture by identifying business, information and application trends, and their technology impacts.
- Continually review the IT software and hardware infrastructure to ensure it is all in support and operating at the most effective level. Recommend changes to the infrastructure where necessary.
You should have relevant technical experience of the types of products being used (see person specification)
Assessment Information:
Candidates should apply by uploading a current CV. Your CV will be assessed on the lead competency 'Delivering value for Money'(please see attachment for information).
Successful candidates will be assessed at interview on the following criteria (and should therefore come equipped with examples as detailed within the competency guidance links):
-Delivering value for money
-Changing and Improving
-Delivering at Pace
-Seeing the bigger picture
-Making effective decisions
Person specification
You should have relevant technical experience of the types of products being used; Cloud computing, Server virtualisation (Hyper-V technology) clustering and Disaster Recovery.
- Experience in the Microsoft application suites and products;
- Share Point 2010 / 2013 solutions
- Dynamics - CRM and AX
- SQL
- Exchange 2013
- MS Lync
- BizTalk
- Active Directory
- Net Apps / Team Foundation
- Application packaging and deployment
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