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Our funding helps young people, the unemployed, and people with low skills get the training they need to find work.  \nDigital transformation  \nWe are completely transforming the way we build our digital services. We’re bringing our development in-house, and moving from waterfall to agile, fixed release cycles to continuous delivery.  \nTo succeed, we need Solutions Architects who can ensure that logical architecture, based on user needs, comes before physical architecture.  \nWhat could I be working on?  \nThe work we do at the Agency is complex, yet the digital services we offer our users need to be clear, simple and fast. The scale of digital change needed to achieve this is huge.  \nThe systems you’ll design will help young people find traineeships, help employers offer apprenticeships, and help people access careers advice.  \nThere are a number of new and upcoming projects you could be working on. 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