Responsibilities:
- Support the front-end change process by supporting triage, attending discovery sessions and providing timely impacts and high-level solution designs
- Attend and contribute to the product team’s Agile ceremonies
- Own technical delivery and risk management of your products
- Enable a positive technical culture and team spirit, applying Agile, DevOps and Quality Engineering practices
- Design technical services within your scope of the wider end-to-end solution that meet the client’s project and business requirements, strategy, user needs, sustainability goals and represent value for money
- Provide input into end-to-end project artefacts such as solution architecture documents, project plans and operational test plans
- Provide technical leadership and consultancy to both internal and external product teams, helping ensure the end-to-end solution is fit for purpose
- Promote the reuse of patterns, tools, and components.
- Build and maintain product roadmaps, looking ahead for future opportunities for innovative new ideas and technology advances, identifying future issues and ensuring decisions by product teams align with the strategy.
- Encourage communication within and across multiple development teams to ensure consistency, implement improvements and identify strategic requirements and dependencies
- Adhere to technical assurance requirements and the wider Delivery Assurance governance functions, including the requirement for status reporting, RAID management and technical governance processes
- Be involved in the wider technical community, identifying good practices to adopt and sharing your experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences, the engineering community and Team Briefs
- Mentor developers and other architects, set standards, support technical capability development and ensure delivery targets are met.
- Ensure that your product is supportable and that we are operating the product within our contractual obligations
- Ensure appropriate and timely architecture response to support operational escalations, key business events and major incidents, including an open retrospective approach to issue prevention and technical leadership for incident investigations