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Assurance, governance and quality
Ensure that solution designs meet architectural standards and non-functional requirements including security, accessibility, performance, resilience and maintainability.
Contribute to architecture governance and design assurance processes, providing clear challenge, guidance and recommendations where needed.
Ensure technical decisions are documented clearly, with rationale, risks, dependencies and trade-offs understood by relevant stakeholders.
Support the organisation in making informed technology choices by balancing user needs, delivery constraints, technical risk and value for money.
Promote secure by design and operationally sustainable architecture, ensuring solutions can be supported, monitored and evolved over time.
Collaboration, influence and capability building
Work closely with product, engineering, service design, operations and business stakeholders to shape solutions that meet user and organisational needs.
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders and governance groups.
Build strong working relationships across teams and with external partners where needed to support joined up delivery and architecture alignment.
Coach and mentor technical leads, engineers and other colleagues, helping to strengthen architecture capability across the organisation.
Contribute to communities of practice, standards development and continuous improvement in architecture and engineering ways of working.
We use a broad range of technologies and do not expect any one candidate to bring experience in every area. We are interested in people with strong architecture capability and relevant depth in several of the following areas:
Our Tech stack Languages: Java, Python, TypeScript Frameworks: Spring Boot, Flask, React, Next.js Platforms and infrastructure: AWS, Red Hat OpenShift, GitLab CI and CD, Jenkins, OpenShift Pipelines, AWS CDK Architecture and delivery practices: cloud native services, containerised solutions, event-based architecture, infrastructure as code, continuous delivery Geospatial technologies: PostGIS, GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoPandas, QGIS
Essential Criteria – Skills and Attributes for Success
- Experience/Technical: We will assess you against the following experience and technical skills during the application and assessment process:
- Significant experience in architecture or senior technical leadership roles, such as domain architecture, solution architecture, enterprise architecture or lead technical architecture.
- Experience leading architectural thinking across multiple teams, products or services in a complex digital environment.
- Experience defining technical strategy, target state architecture and roadmaps that support business priorities and delivery outcomes.
- Experience assuring solution designs and applying architectural governance in a practical and proportionate way.
- Experience working in agile, multidisciplinary teams delivering digital services in iterative ways.
- Strong experience engaging with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing decisions and building consensus.
- Experience identifying and managing architectural risks across areas such as security, resilience, integration and maintainability.
- Experience supporting organisational change through technology modernisation, service improvement or legacy replacement.
- Experience coaching, mentoring or developing other technical professionals and contributing to capability building.
- Desirable experience of working within government, public sector or other regulated environments, with awareness of digital and service standards.
Behaviours/Competencies
At assessment will be scored against the below behaviours: Communicating and Influencing
You will communicate architectural vision, strategy and technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, adapting style and level of detail to secure understanding and confidence.
You will influence senior stakeholders, delivery teams and partners to build alignment around technical direction, priorities and design choices across multiple teams or services.
You will handle challenge constructively and with credibility, using clear reasoning and strong communication to build consensus on complex or high impact architecture matters.
Leadership
You will provide visible technical leadership across the domain, setting clear direction, promoting good architecture practice and giving others confidence in the way forward.
You will create an inclusive and collaborative environment in which architects, engineers and delivery teams can contribute, challenge and develop high quality solutions together.
You will coach and develop others, strengthening architecture capability, encouraging consistency in decision making and contributing to a strong cross organisational technical community.
Seeing the Big Picture
You will understand the wider organisational, service and technology context, and ensure architectural direction supports Registers of Scotland’s strategic priorities and long-term outcomes.
You will anticipate how emerging risks, dependencies, legacy constraints and external developments may affect the domain, and use this insight to shape roadmaps and future state design.
You will balance immediate delivery needs with wider organisational value, ensuring technical decisions contribute to sustainable services, public value and business transformation.
Making Effective Decisions
You will make sound architectural decisions using evidence, experience and judgement, taking account of risks, trade-offs, costs, benefits and the impact on users and services.
You will provide clear recommendations on complex technical options, even where there is ambiguity or competing priorities, and ensure decisions are proportionate, defensible and well explained.
You will apply governance and assurance effectively, challenging designs where needed and guiding teams towards decisions that are secure, resilient, maintainable and aligned with standards.
Stage one - Application Process
- To apply, click on ' Apply now' and complete the online application form.
- You will need to submit:
- A CV outlining your career history and how you meet the technical/experience criteria (max 4 pages).
- A Statement of Suitability (maximum 500 words) explaining how you meet the Leadership behaviour and the technical skills, knowledge and experience required for the role. Please use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) in your examples.
- Your CV and Supporting statement should be submitted as a single MS Word file.
- Please note:
- If we receive a high volume of applications, we may complete an initial sift on Technical and Experience Criteria
- We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
- Applications that are not accompanied by CVs will not be scored or statements over 1000 words will not be considered.
- We would strongly recommend that your statement is written in the STAR format ( Situation, Task, Action & Result) and suggest preparing your answers using software such as MS Word or Google Docs, and then uploading the file.
- We strongly advise you review our policy on responsible use of AI in the application process. RoS may contact you for a pre-screening call to verify your responses.
- Applications and appointments are subject to a strict merit-based assessment process, in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles.
- Stage two – assessment If successful at application stage, you will be invited to an in-person interview which will include the following:
- Behaviour based interview
- Pre-prepared Presentation
- Technical Code Review (completed on day)
- Behaviour based interview questions will be given to candidates 15 minutes before the start of the interview to allow candidates to prepare in advance. You will be able to take short notes with you into the interview from your preparation.
- Guidance on Interview Notes
- You are welcome to bring notes with you to the interview
- Notes can be either handwritten or typed
- Notes should consist of brief prompts, such as key words or bullet points, to help you structure your responses rather than complete answers
- The interview is a conversation, and we are interested in hearing about your experiences in your own words
- Information on Success Profiles
- For further information on success profiles, visit our Success Profiles. Recruitment timeline
- Advert Close: 13 September Sift: Week commencing 14 September Candidate Notification: Week commencing 21 September Interviews: Week commencing 28 September
- Feedback Feedback will only be provided if you progress to interview stage.
- Reserve List In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
- Nationality and immigration status (EXTERNAL JOBS ONLY!) In general, only nationals from the following countries (and associations of countries) are eligible for employment in the Civil Service: the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth. EU nationals (with settled or pre-settled status), certain EEA nationals, Swiss and Turkish nationals are also eligible for employment. Detailed provisions on determining eligibility on the grounds of nationality and, where relevant, immigration status can be reviewed here.
- Security Successful candidates must undergo a Basic Level 1 Disclosure check . Individuals working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
- Diversity and inclusion As a proud member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We’re not as diverse as we’d like yet, and we’re working on it. We especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups – people who are disabled, minoritised ethnic groups, and younger people (16-24 years of age). To learn more, please see our EDI strategy . As part of the application process, we would like to invite you to please complete our diversity monitoring form. This information is not shared with recruitment panels but will allow us to further improve our processes to increase diversity. Reasonable adjustments We want everyone to have the chance to perform at their best. If you need any adjustments (for example, extra time, a hearing loop, materials in large font) in any part of our recruitment process, please get in touch via talent@ros.gov.uk. We will discuss adjustments individually with any candidates who request these. Find out more about reasonable adjustments on this page Further information For further information relating to RoS, including:
- · Additional details on pay & benefits
- · The Civil Service Code
- · Complaints process
- · Use of AI in the application/recruitment process,
- Please view our additional information page online
About Registers of Scotland
Non-ministerial Scottish Government office maintaining Scotland’s public registers of land, property, and legal documents.
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