DfE Architecture
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Architecture Capability Framework

Purpose

This framework provides an outline of the roles, skills, experience and tools that architects working within DfE have or would like to build.

It describes the pathways into architecture and how to develop an architecture career. It should help also people interacting with architects understand what we do and how we do it.

It builds on the GDS DDaT Capability Framework, extending the various skills, levels and mastery for the DfE context.

The skills and experience you’ll need

In the DfE architecture team, we centre on Enterprise and Solution Architects. We form part of a wider community of architects working across DfE, but have found that these two roles tend to work best within the central team, working closely with Technical Architects and those with other specialisms in project or service teams.

We broadly align our roles with the Technical Architect levels in the GDS DDaT Capability Framework:

Skills & mastery (how DfE use and adapts), read across with DDaT Tech Arch skill levels

In the team, we also have Data Architects and Specialist Technical Architects, who work closely with the Data Directorate and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) function.

We also have an architecture practice manager and some functional support, to keep everything running smoothly.

Things to help you

Objectives

Standard deliverables, expectations

Learning and development

Offer, recommended learning, shadowing / mentoring, how to access

Community

Events, peer review

Repositories

Review our repositories for useful artefacts, standards, patterns and designs.

Managed services

Architecture service contracts, how to access them, example job specs, RfQs

Pathways into architecture

DDaT pathways + DfE - from business analysis, development / DevOps, technnical roles

Profiles

Case studies for Enterprise / Solution Architect

For more information, contact the Architecture team