Head of IT Strategy & Architecture

Salary: £70-82k depending on experience

West Northamptonshire is a brand new local authority with a clear ambition to be the most digital, innovative council in the country, and we’re looking for enthusiastic, skilled technologists to join us on that journey!

We’re looking for a Head of IT Strategy & Architecture to build a completely new service area and embed good architectural practice and innovation as function. Reporting to the CIO, you’ll design and build a team that will deliver solution blueprints, technology roadmaps and provide insight into emerging tech and its application for our services.

You’ll previously had led an architecture function and have either managed enterprise architects and solution architects, or worked as one. You’ll be passionate about new technology and conversant in architecture within cloud services, understand how to build a good set of RESTful microservices and how to align business requirements with IT strategy.

We’re excited about the future of digital public services and we look forward to welcome skilled technologists who can help us deliver this vision.

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