Data Architect - NCA Grade 4 (Digital, Data & Technology)

☞ National Crime Agency

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Update day: 07-05-2024

Location: Birmingham West Midlands

Category: Architecture / Interior Design Part-time

Industry: Government Public Administration

Job type: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £36,742 a year

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Reference number

140583

Salary

£36,742
Roles based in London will also receive an additional London Weighting of £3,424. This post may attract a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) pending review. The RRA is an enhancement to the role and is reviewed annually.

Grade

Higher Executive Officer
NCA Grade 4 / Sergeant

Contract type

Permanent
Secondment

Length of employment

Secondment length - 2 Years

Business area

Digital, Data & Technology

Type of role

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology
Knowledge and Information Management

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of posts

1

Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, London, Wakefield, Warrington

About the job

Summary

Digital, data and technology is at the heart of everything we do within the NCA, from operations to the back-office, enabling the agency to lead the UK’s fight against serious and organised crime. The Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) Directorate is responsible for creating a cutting-edge technology and information environment that connects, empowers and enhances our officers’ crime fighting capabilities.

The Enterprise Design Authority, Technology (based within Digital Data & Technology) are currently looking to recruit NCA Grade 2 Architects with Technical, Data or Application specialisms, based in London, Bristol, Wakefield, Leicester, Warrington or Birmingham. The Enterprise Design Authority, Technology work across the Agency to develop and establish mechanisms for aligning the enterprise, technological solutions and technology architectures to the NCA’s strategic direction.

These roles will focus on the technical design elements of an exciting and challenging delivery of key operational capabilities within the NCA.

Please read the candidate information pack for further details.

Job description

Key responsibilities as a NCA Grade 4 Architect include:
  • Develop and assist in the review of ICT architecture and data designs, to ensure compliance with enterprise wide data standards, practices, and design patterns.
  • Provide technical and data expertise leading on data technologies, ETL, data integration, data enrichment, and data modelling.
  • Assist in the development of the future data architecture for the NCA.
  • Support the design (or assurance) of the data aspects of solutions and applications, including data structures, databases, file systems, schemes and meta data.
  • Ensure compliance with data architectures, standards, practices, making recommendations to higher design authorities as needed.
  • Participate in workshops and similar consultations with users and others to identify user needs and how users consume and categorise content.
  • Help to establish and embed standards for data quality and its measurement.
  • Look across the agency and externally to identify and learn from data and information architecture developments and trends.
  • Support the creation and maintenance of the corporate data model, ensuring it aligns with the business needs, HMG strategies, policies, and standards.

***To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. To be considered, you will need to successfully complete an SC Enhanced clearance before commencing the role, with the ability to obtain a DV clearance within the first 12 months in post. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role you will have a broad data architecture background combined with areas of knowledge on technologies and practices, a good understanding of architecture domains, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Further details of the essential Broad and Specialist Architecture Experience criteria within the candidate pack and housed under ’Technical criteria’ below.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Broad Experience: experience and broad up-to-date knowledge of IT capabilities and services such as cloud computing, end user computing, on-premise hosting, mobility solutions, management infrastructure and cross-domain solutions
  • Broad Experience: experience of developing design artifacts and associated materials under an architecture framework e.g. TOGAF
  • Broad Experience: demonstrable experience working in a variety of environments, with a mix of on-premise and cloud based technologies
  • Specialist Experience: your practical experience of data architecture and design as applied to data exploitation and analytics capabilities.

Benefits

If you are an active police pension member immediately prior to joining the NCA, you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us as if you were a serving police officer. If you do remain an active member and subsequently return to a police force, you should be able to continue your membership there too.

All officers in the NCA are members of the UK Civil Service. You will be eligible for:
  • Civil Service pension scheme
  • 26 days annual leave rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service
  • Training and development opportunities
  • Cycle2work scheme

We take the welfare of NCA officers very seriously. All staff have access to Occupational Health services and there are a number of staff representative groups. We also have a range of sporting and other activities on offer.

We can provide flexible working arrangements if the role in question is suitable. These include flexi-time, job sharing and compressed hours (working contracted hours over a shorter period).

This post may attract a Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) pending review. The RRA is an enhancement to the role and is reviewed annually.
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Deadline: 21-06-2024

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