83,261 Permanent - Hybrid.
Staffordshire Police Force.
Staffordshire Police are seeking exceptional individuals, with a proven background in technical transformation at scale and Team management, who can deliver the upgrade that The Force needs As the Lead Architect, your function will be to govern and maintain the overall technical architecture solution for the force; ensuring that all work undertaken adheres to agreed standards, design principles and architecture methodology.
Reporting into the Head of Strategy and Transformation, you and the Strategy team will be responsible for ensuring the Digital, Data and Technology Department understands current and future requirements for The Force, the technology marketplace, and as a result identifies opportunities for leveraging information and digital technology to benefit The Force.
Managing the technical architecture team, you will have a strong focus on the creation of high/low level design solutions for new innovative IT solutions across the force, the post holder will also hold responsibility for driving forward Innovation, technology roadmaps - ensuring security by design in all undertakings Effective leadership and management of the Architecture team Act as the technical design authority (Chair of TDA) for new technology solutions presented by the development or architecture sub-teams Drive innovative ideas across the team, encouraging an atmosphere of creative thinking and data-driven solutions Monitor and manage service levels and performance standards for the team Leadership and management experience is a key part of this role.
You will have experience in strategising projects alongside possessing strong management capabilities.
You will have experience of steering teams of skilled architects and formalise the Architecture Process.
What marks you out however is your ability to think strategically whilst having a strong focus on ICT technologies, GAP Analysis, understanding of Cyber Security protocols and operational service delivery.