Day Rate Circa 650

Harvey Nash s public sector client are currently looking to recruit a Technical Architect to join their team based in Edinburgh/Remote for an initial 6 month period.

Assignment Description

The successful candidate will play a key role in defining and assuring the Programme s architecture roadmap and relationship with architecture teams across public sector organisations and suppliers involved in developing, testing, auditing and supporting the service. The post-holder will collaborate with technical architects, developers, testers and business areas, working closely with delivery partners and internal administrative teams.

The organisation requires a Technical Architect with ID&V experience to prepare architectural documentation, support technical industry engagement and assist with assurance of partner supplier outcomes. In the next few months major technical decisions will have to be made on the procurement and/or build of prototypes testing Identity Provider and Attribute Store element.

Essential Skills:

Specifically, the role will require (4 or more of):

• Excellent Knowledge and experience of the Identity & Access Management area including B2C
• Experience with industry leading IAM products and principles including B2C.
• Excellent Architecture skills, able to understand the bigger picture and derive possible options for improvement and understand consequences for all impacted areas, striving for sustainable strategic approaches to reach defined target states while taking into account tactical needs for temporary intermediate states
• Architectural experience of the roll-out of complex IDAM solutions across a large environment.
• Profound understanding of web-based technologies including multi-tier applications and security standards (HTTP, TLS, REST/SOAP, Cookie Handling, SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, WS-Trust, UMA, JWE )

Making and guiding decisions

• capable of making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached.
• able to make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
• capable of resolving technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.

Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical

• translates technical concepts between software engineering, delivery management and service management so they are understood by all
• experienced and comfortable working with senior level (Director level) and challenging internal and external stakeholders

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