Solutions Architect - College of Policing

You will be joining the College's Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team at a watershed moment as we accelerate the design and delivery of innovative, AI enabled and data driven solutions across the organisation and wider policing. In this pivotal role, you will design and deliver solutions that translate business needs into coherent, robust and future proof architectures. The tools and platforms you create will transform how frontline officers and staff access and apply policing standards, learning and the evidence base, driving better outcomes for policing and the service.

Reporting to the Digital and Solutions Innovation Lead, you will be responsible for defining, assuring and governing end to end technology solutions. The role also involves ensuring these solutions are scalable, secure, cost effective and aligned to strategic architecture principles, supporting organisational objectives, operational effectiveness and long term transformation.

This role would suit someone with both technical expertise and a sense of vocation, looking to apply their skills to public service, fighting crime and keeping people safe.

Candidate profile

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Lead on the design of key technical solutions, setting direction for how systems and services are built and ensuring they are secure, effective and sustainable.
• Providing architectural assurance across programmes and projects, ensuring compliance with agreed standards, principles, and reference architectures.
• Turn operational, legal and organisational needs into secure and reliable technical designs that work across our systems, data and infrastructure and meet national policing standards.
• Engaging with national policing bodies, suppliers, and partners to assess solution proposals and ensure alignment with policing strategies., We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer in on their existing terms and conditions, any subsequent transfer out of the College to the Civil Service cannot be guaranteed on existing terms and conditions, and new starter/modernised terms may apply.

The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process.

Our Vetting

If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.

Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn.

• Extensive experience working as a technical solutions architect or backend software developer creating applications using Microsoft and AWS technologies.
• Strong track record in designing and assuring complex digital, data, and technology solutions within large, regulated organisations.
• Proven success in providing architectural leadership across programmes and services, acting as a design authority where required.
• Hands-on delivery of solutions involving AI
• A proven ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across business, operational, and technical domains.

Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision. Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers' network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work., London, England, United Kingdom > 1000 employees Corporate / Direct Employer Government Digital and Data is a community of experts leading digital transformation in government, creating more efficient services that have a meaningful impact on people's lives. Government Digital and Data professionals benefit from cross-government events and learning. From webinars from the world's leading innovators to digital upskilling sessions.They enhance our professionals' skills and capabilities, which ultimately enables them to be a part of the world-leading advancements in digital transformation and government innovation.