Skills and Competencies:

Essential:

Must demonstrate proven experience and ability to:

• Experience building architecture roadmaps

• Ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering

• Experience designing and integrating complex solutions

• Ability to "think big" and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype

• Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups

• Demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders

• Direct line management experience across a range of disciplines and levels – including recruitment, development, appraisals, and objectives;

• Demonstrable experience to lead and manage an architecture team with technically skilled individuals;

• Demonstrable experience in reviewing and challenging technical designs and architecture.

• Demonstrate technical experience and expertise in at least one of the domains of Infrastructure, Applications, Security and Solution architecture.

• Demonstrable experience of directly communicating with senior managers from a professional perspective using written and oral methods;
• Promote equality, diversity and Human Rights in working practices;
• Experience of presenting designs and subsequent choices to a range of stakeholders.
• An IT and/or management related qualification with a minimum requirement that it be Degree level, or demonstrable specialist skills in management;

Must have skills in relation to;

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to communicate effectively at very senior levels.

• Experience of leading fellow technical professionals, especially coaching and mentoring of colleagues to achieve delivery outcomes.

• Experience of working on end to end technical solutions that encompass many systems and teams, drawing out the Key Design Decisions and their implications and resolving them
• Proven ability to shape business requirements and design solutions based on those requirements.

• First class design skills including the ability to draw up extremely accurate specifications that could be effectively utilised by development team.

Desirable:

• An IT related certification within a technical specialist area (I.e. Infrastructure, Applications etc) is desirable but not essential.

• An architecture certification (Ideally TOGAF) is desirable but not essential.

Hours:

Agile role to be conducted within the departments guideleines. 

Vetting:

Successful applicants will be required to pass Management Vetting and Security Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

Medical

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

Interviews:

To be confirmed

Contact:

For further information please contact Head Of Architecture Marc Williams  marc.williams@westmidlands.police.uk

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview. 

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.

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