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Location:London
Salary:Salary depending on skills and experience
Closing date:18 February 2013
MI5 keeps the UK safe by watching for and disrupting threats to national security such as terrorism, espionage and cyber attack.
Information is the lifeblood of the organisation - and technology is constantly transforming the ways we can collate and analyse this information. So if you're a technology professional looking to have more impact, we offer challenges and rewards that simply can't be found elsewhere.
Join us and you'll have the chance to shape and work on cutting-edge, major-scale technology projects. All the while, you'll be deepening your expertise within a fast-moving, technically ambitious team that makes a real difference to national security.
Your role
Solution Architects
We are looking for people who bring fresh ideas and lateral thinking to solution design. You’ll be experienced in working with business and systems analysts, whilst also having the ability to present solutions to non-technical business audiences. You will work as part of a team on a wide variety of challenging business problems, creating design options that lead to affordable and deliverable solutions.
You’ll have experience in delivering solution architectures through the full project life-cycle, and will have developed technology strategies and roadmaps to produce conceptual application and infrastructure architectures. You may have either an application, infrastructure or data design background and ideally will have a strong blend of all three. An appreciation of architecture methodologies, standards, frameworks and tools such as TOGAF, Zachman, COBIT, UML or Rational Software Modeller is highly desirable.
Enterprise Architects
As an Enterprise Architect at MI5 you’ll have the opportunity to shape and build strategic architectures with senior stakeholders, getting support for them and building them into portfolio roadmaps to deliver real business value.
We are looking for people with expertise in one or more Enterprise Architecture domains (Business, Data, Application or Technology) and a good understanding of how they relate to one another. You will have a broad awareness of business modelling, process/organisation design and solutions modelling as well as experience in the use of industry standard architecture modelling tools, an awareness of IS Portfolio Management and benefits management, and a practical understanding of service based architectures.
Your skills
We are looking for people who can demonstrate genuine subject-matter expertise, as well as a track record of delivering innovative solutions and results. You will also need the people skills to make things happen in a complex and fast-moving organisation. Discretion is vital.
The recruitment process
There are four stages in the recruitment process: a review of your CV and application, a telephone screening interview, a face-to-face interview, and an assessment centre.
Candidates who succeed at the assessment centre will be made a conditional offer of employment. You will then have a security interview with a vetting officer, with a final offer of employment being made after developed vetting has been granted.
To begin your application, please complete our pre-screening questions to find out if you meet our initial criteria. You will then need to complete an application form, supply equal opportunities monitoring information and upload a copy of your current CV.
We will keep you informed all the way up to final offer of employment, letting you know whether or not you've been successful at each stage. Timescales differ from candidate to candidate, but you can typically expect the entire process from application to assessment centre to take about 7-8 weeks.
Your CV
It is essential that your CV:
- covers the last 10 years of employment and/or education, clearly specifying job and/or course 'from' and 'to' dates in month and year detail
- explains any unaccounted periods of time or holidays over a fortnight in duration over the last 10 years by specifying the dates and a brief description of what you were doing during this time
- clearly demonstrates the key activities and responsibilities you have performed in each role detailed
- states what academic and professional qualifications you possess or are currently studying for.
Your CV must include the above information in order for us to process your application.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to the “Positive about Disabled People” scheme we offer an interview to all candidates with a disability who meet our minimum criteria for the job vacancy that they are applying for. This is known as the Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS).
Along with the standard eligibility requirements for this post, your application will be assessed on how far you meet the job specification based on the information you provide in your CV. Your application must score the minimum amount of points set. On successful completion of this stage, you will be invited to interview.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to apply, you must meet our residency criteria. You must be a born or naturalised British citizen and one of your parents must be a British citizen or have substantial ties to the UK.
Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for nine out of the last 10 years prior to application. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You will nonetheless be considered if you have, for example, served overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of Her Majesty's Government, studied abroad or lived overseas with your parents.
Due to vetting requirements you will need to be 18 years old or above to apply. Your application may take around six months to process.
The Security Service is committed to reflecting both equal opportunities and the society we protect.
Owing to the sensitivity of our work, we do not publicly disclose the identities of our staff. Discretion is vital. You should not discuss your application, other than with your partner or a close family member.
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