Senior Technical Architect

# Senior Technical Architect## Job Introduction
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* Job title:

** Senior Technical Architect Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic, and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities.
Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do.

Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.

We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, as well as affordable housing, good schools, beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!
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* The role:

** The role of a Senior Architect involves advanced responsibilities, you will act as a subject-matter-expert for the ICT architecture landscape, founded on an extensive, demonstrable track-record of real-world, successful ICT architecture experience in Technical Architecture, or a technical design role. Plan and carry out skills/knowledge sharing and mentoring of Technical Architects and Service Analysts. You will typically be responsible for the implementation of business applications.
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* Key responsibilities:

*** The role of Senior Technical Architect will provide expert knowledge of business application implementation, mapping interdependencies between technologies, process and projects. Identify, propose and support delivery of programmes of work that provide a logical and achievable path to deliver objectives whilst minimising risk and preventing rework
* Delivery of technical standards and architecture artifacts will be a key requirement of the Senior Technical Architect. Reusing existing technologies wherever possible, to provide cost reduction and exploit new business opportunities
* In the role Senior Technical Architect you will act as solution architect, responsible for delivering technical change within the existing Enterprise.  Leading and/or participating in the development of high-quality technical process and documentation standards and templates to be used within ICT, which are appropriate to and tailored to meet the requirements of a range of audiences
* The role of Senior Technical Architect will work with technical experts across multiple disciplines and business owners who deliver Council services.
* Your demonstrable knowledge as a Senior Technical Architect will see you work across all areas of ICT, networks, security, application and data hosting, in addition to softer skills with projects and non-technical staff.  You will be required to maintain a comprehensive and current understanding of the ICT marketplace, key trends across the public sector, and opportunities, backed up by first-hand experience of complex technologies including Cloud based infrastructures, virtualisation platforms, high-availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, and enterprise applications
* The role Senior Technical Architect will support other Designers in carrying out their assignments, identifying and delivering commonality:
Common processes, common information, common infrastructure, and common standards, with the aim of delivering reduced Enterprise complexity, while supporting change and transformation across the Council
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* Please note:

we have one permanent post available and one fixed term contract to cover a secondment within the service until 30 April 2027.
**** Our offer to you:
*** At least 31 days holiday, plus bank holidays rising to 35 after 5 years’ service (pro rata if part time) - option to purchase further days
* Agile working (role dependent) - a “Flexibility First” approach to agile working, where flexibility is the norm rather than the exception
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