Service Architect

Service Architect - Contract - London - £competitive

Synergize Consulting are now hiring for a Service Architect to work at a leading government client based in London on a contract basis.

This Architect role will provide hands-on technical leadership in the development, operation and
ongoing improvement of a complex, transformational digital service that will serve millions of users.

Responsibilities include:

- Develop a deep understanding of the client's digital service user needs and ensure that new technology is built to support them.
- Build and maintain a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, ensuring that key systems are regularly analysed, maintained and improved.
- Understand risk based governance frameworks and how they can interoperate with agile delivery models
- Act as the technical authority in prospective, information gathering and scene setting meetings with other related clients/suppliers
- Provide hands on technical leadership of the design of operational digital services.

Experience required:

-  Excellent knowledge of modern digital technologies and technical architectures, especially open source and open standards
-  Proven ability to lead and develop a highly-skilled specialist technical development team, and introduce a dev/ops culture. ideally from within a government or public sector client
- A deep understanding and experience of using of agile project management techniques and working practices, open source, cloud platforms and digital services
- Demonstrable experience (past or present) in coding languages, including at least one of Ruby, Python, Java, C++, C# or .Net.

If you are looking to take the next exciting step in your IT career, please send in your CV for immediate consideration.