Solution Architect

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Solution Architect (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based predominantly remote, however occasional office attendance required based in Swindon.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

Project scope includes:
. Delivering a new UKRI data service and API(s) for external users to search open datasets for funded research and outcomes.
. Ensuring compliance with government standards for usability/accessibility/data security.
. Leveraging strategic tools, such as MuleSoft and Talend.
. Decommissioning UKRI Legacy solutions, where required and ensuring any relevant data is migrated to the strategic data bank.

Deliverables:
. Produce conceptual and physical designs, including initial reviewing designs from third parties to comply with the target and enterprise architecture.
. Option analysis and recommendations towards meeting the conceptual designs and design standards, including development of key design decisions and risk impact assessments
. Transition of designs in coordination with operational teams.
. Manage Funding Publication Service design governance for the project, ensuring that the designs are fit for purpose for approval at governance boards.
. Fully integrated with the UKRI Enterprise Architecture team and overseen by the Principal Architect.

Role scope includes:
. Owning the overall technical design & Architectural Blueprints for the new service, including data and integration components
. Detailed data design in partnership with engineering teams
. Collaborative working with enterprise architect; business analysts; Digital user researchers and UI designers; delivery leads; data and digital engineers; and subject matter experts

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".