Contract Term: 6 months

Contracting Authority: Cabinet Office - Chief Digital and Data Office (CDDO)

Location: Remote - (occasional visit to office)

This is the opportunity to shape how the entirety of Government thinks about interacting with citizens and businesses to provide digital services, ranging from call centres to smartphone apps and smart speaker skills, while making sure these are accessible and value for money

You will have:

• Previous experience with channels
• Understanding of marketing
• Understanding of accessibility challenges with channels
• Understanding of cost, specialist skill and overhead of multi / omni-channel

A Technical Architect leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed.

In this role level, you will:

• network and communicate with senior stakeholders across organisations
• proactively seek opportunities for digital transformation
• support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies
• inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation
• be responsible for governance, solving complex and high risk issues or delivering architecture design

Skills:

Communicating between the technical and non-technical (technical architect)

You can:

• mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels

Governance and assurance

You can:

• understand how technical governance works with wider governance (such as budget)
• assure corporate services by understanding important risks and mitigating them through assurance mechanisms

Making and guiding decisions

You can:

• make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
• build consensus between organisations (private or public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders

Strategy

You can:

• shape and influence government strategy
• own and be responsible for setting strategies, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements

Turning business problems into technical design

You can:

• design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity

Understanding the whole context

You can:

• understand trends and practices outside your organisation and how these will impact your work
• anticipate changing policy