Senior Infrastructure Architect (Platform) - DVSA - G7
Government Digital & Data -
Location
Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea
About the job
Job summary
As a Senior Infrastructure Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the architectural vision and strategy both for future projects and day to day operations.
You will play a key role in the leadership on all things related to IT Infrastructure across DVSA leading the design, development, and implementation of high-quality technical solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
Your expertise will guide the technical direction of projects, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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Job description
This role will be within the platform team and the successful candidate will help ensure the agency is at the leading edge of technology, security, and all infrastructure components are running optimal. The main duties of this role will be to lead the support, Development, governance and insourcing of the MS Dynamics infrastructure within the DVSA.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Develop, secure and improve the current Infrastructure specifically within Dynamics 365.
- Work closely with the Powerplatform Development team.
- Conduct Infrastructure reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and standards.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance existing systems.
- Develop and maintain architectural documentation.
- Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex technical issues.
- Assess the current infrastructure and look for opportunities to insource support when available.
- Lead, Develop and support a team of Senior Infrastructure engineers.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Open Sessions:
Would you like to find out more about the role, the team and what it’s like to work in our department? If so, we are organising an open session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on 30th July 2025 at 12:00. Sign up here
Person specification
Qualifications/licenses:
Hold or be willing to work towards
- TOGAF v9+
- Infrastructure Architecture qualifications
Required experience:
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Excellent understanding of Cloud hosting solutions (including hybrid integration) specifically AWS & Azure.
- Excellent understanding IAC (Infrastructure as Code).
- Thorough knowledge of authentication and access control, including Active Directory, SAML, LDAP and IAM.
- Strong understanding of future developments in cloud computing and experience of re-platforming and Transformation.
- Proven experience of designing and delivering technology strategy & architectural patterns.
- Ability to understand and articulate the interactions between business functions, processes, and IT components, and how the individual parts interact with and impact the whole.
- Knowledge, understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and its underlying infrastructure.
- Experience of working in an Agile delivery environment.
Additional Information
This role is part of the Government Digital and Data profession and utilises an enhanced Capability Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance.
The base pay is £54,857. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £25,543.
The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.
Here are more details on the pay framework.
Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements
Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week. Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements. For more information on how this works for this role, please contact the Vacancy Holder (see below for contact details).
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your principal workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, visiting stakeholders and colleagues, or carrying out detached duty in another DfT or agency workplace. The chosen principal workplace will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to the designated place of work or contractual terms and conditions. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation. Applicants can request further information on how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see below for contact details).
Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.
If you have questions regarding how hybrid working is practiced within the business area, or any reasonable adjustments or flexible working arrangements you may currently have or need in place if successful in your application, please contact the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details).
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker Licence sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. Candidates should ensure they have the appropriate rights to work in the UK before application.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Leadership
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Senior Technical Architect - Architect for the whole context (Skill level: Working)
- Senior Technical Architect - Architecture Communication (Skill level: Practitioner)
- Senior Technical Architect - Technical design throughout the life cycle (Skill level: Practitioner)
- Senior Technical Architect - Strategy Design (Skill level: Working)
