164875| Senior Solutions Architect
Up to £61,000|Blackpool
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support over 22 million people.
We're delivering a generational transformation – build new digital services and modernising legacy products.
We need the best talent to help us do that, and our ground-breaking Identity & Trust team are currently looking for a Solution Architect to join them.
You'll need experience of developing solutions for deployment into public cloud (AWS preferred) environments.
This role is ideally suited to an architect with knowledge and experience of Identity Access Management (IAM) and related technical standards e.g. SAML, OAuth, OIDC etc. A working understanding of modern data security, data privacy and GDPR would also help.
Identity, authentication and verification are critical to modern, digital services and we want to make it simpler and easier for people to identify themselves online, so everyone can access the support and services they need.
You'll enjoy flexible working hours and a hybrid working model, so you can work around your life and take extra days off. And you'll get employer pension contributions of 27.9% -for a starting salary of £55,000, for example, that would work out as over £15,000 a year in your pension pot.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- You are experienced in architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards.
- You have experience in event-based architecture design, patterns (including pub-sub and data streaming), modelling techniques, tools and standards.
- Knowledge of Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practices (especially AWS).
- Agile / DevOps delivery methodologies and best practices.
- Experience in Identity and Access Management, and related technical standards e.g. SAML, OAuth, OIDC etc.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll join us in our brilliant digital hub located in Blackpool,
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid of at home and in the office, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay up to £61,000, a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 27.9%, and a generous leave package starting at 26 days.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
