HMRC is building a modern, digital tax administration and runs the biggest digital operation in Government, providing digital services for 45 million individuals and 4.9 million business customers. Our digital programme is multi-award winning and the envy of other government organisations.
This is a positive time to join an organisation that probably doesn’t work how you’d imagine a government organisation would. Our blog tells you a bit more about what we do and how we do it!

We are undergoing a major transformation programme, which includes a major investment in digitisation. This means customers can do more for themselves online, in real time, on computers, tablets and smartphones therefore we are building a team of outstanding people who will create and run these new and improved technology services.

HMRC has one of the UK’s largest IT estates ranging from ‘state of the art’ data analytics platforms to complex legacy systems. The breadth, variety and complexity of these systems and the business processes they support are on a scale rarely seen in other global organisations. With the right people on-board, we will deliver some of the most exciting technological change programmes ever undertaken in the UK.

There is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and fast paced delivery team within HMRC’s Data Platform Service Delivery Group as a Data Solution Architect.

This role exists to analyse IT requirements and produce data solutions through the high and low level design documentation. As a Data Solution Architect, you will be expected to represent your designs to governance forums, partners and IT developers, working in a fast paced and incremental development environment using Agile methodology with scrum teams.

DPS prides itself on operating with an open, innovative and hard-working environment in which your ideas will be welcomed and you will get to work with passionate, knowledgeable individuals and teams alongside being enabled to learn new skills, gain valuable experience and grow along with our current digital transformation.



The Team:
The Data Platform Services Group is building an engineering capability to help run, maintain, and evolve its strategic Data Analytics platforms and services.
We are at the heart of HMRC’s ambitious digital transformation and cutting-edge innovation. The team was set up just over 3 years ago in response to HMRC's desire to take control of building and running its critical data capabilities in complex and multi-sourced environments. This is a fantastic time to get involved and join us on our mission.

The Data Platform Services Delivery Group provides cradle to grave services supporting agile project delivery and provides live service support to all analytical services, including HMRC’s next generation data analytics platform. The Delivery Group has grown significantly over the last 24 months from little over a dozen people to nearly 200 people, but the Delivery Group is yet to see its biggest growth in 21/22, driven by a maturing operating model, increased demands for services, and a focus on building internal capability.

Responsibilities • Create designs for data centric solutions producing relevant documentation, ensuring they are aligned with Departmental data and security standards.
• A key role in enabling the departments technology strategy and move to public cloud.
• Apply data modelling techniques against a range of database and data lake technologies to establish, modify or maintain data structures and associated components based on the IT requirements presented.
• Produce data mapping and interface documents, showing traceability across data environments.
• Knowledge of a range of applications to support Data Engineering Architecture development.
• Mentoring of Junior Data Solution Architects may be required.

Essential Criteria
• Demonstrable experience of working successfully in either Data Analysis or Solution Design roles with a data focus and an ability to address data security requirements; on cloud (AWS, Azure etc) and on-prem hosting included
• Experience of successfully creating and implementing designs for data centric solutions.
• Experience of different data solutions including RDBMS and NOSQL technology, and exploitation tools such as Log Analytics and Reporting
• Broad IT experience with in-depth understanding of data strategies, data models, ETL design & development.
• Solid understanding or willingness to learn about of Big Data solutions in a data analytics technology landscape.
• Solid experience of data management technologies and approaches.

Desirable Criteria:
• Data modelling - experience with entity, logical and physical models for various purpose and use cases including warehousing, data marts. Experience of Database schema definition
• Designs incorporating various technologies including some of: Virtualization, Hadoop, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Mongo, NEO4J, Pentaho, Talend, Kafka, Flume, FTPs, sFTP, XML, JSON, SAS (including Enterprise Guide, Viya and Data Management Studio), R, MDM and Risking systems such as BRMS and SAS RTDM.
• Experience with AI and Cognitive services.
• Use of various collaboration tools including JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Experience using an Architecture Repository and adhering to its use and policy.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively and with impact to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrate the ability to work with minimal direction in a large often challenging environment to influence and inspire change internally and with 3rd party suppliers.
• Be a team player coaching and mentoring aspiring colleagues into motivated and delivery focused individuals.