Chief Enterprise Architect
Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle:upon:Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea
Salary: A GBP 64,108 : A GBP 95,600 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Are you a strategic technology leader ready to shape impactful digital services?
Can you lead complex architecture with clarity while supporting and growing your team?
If so, wed love to hear from you
The DVSA is building a dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to act as the bridge between the business and digital and data delivery. The Chief Enterprise Architect leads a team of Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver a strategically aligned architecture service, to deliver great customer outcomes and demonstrate business value. They will contribute to the development and delivery of new and evolving operating models, accountable for delivering enterprise:wide architecture capability to ensure the best and most cost:effective technology solutions are developed and deployed for DVSAs services.
Operating effectively with multi:disciplinary teams of Digital and Data professionals, policy experts and service teams throughout the change lifecycle, the Chief Enterprise Architect will use business architecture to inform shape and define strategic business design. They will support design, building and delivering to meet user needs, understand business goals and be able to translate future needs into statements of capability.
Job description
* Provide technical leadership in the development, operation, and continual improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.
* Direct the development of enterprise:wide business design and information architecture, embedding the strategic application of technology into DVSAs organisational management.
* Develop and communicate the organisations enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring robust governance, audit, control, and compliance across DVSAs technology landscape.
* Lead the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring quality, documentation, and alignment with both internal and external customer requirements.
* Oversee work delivered by external partners to ensure DVSAs reference architecture is robust, scalable, open, secure, and delivers a high:quality user experience through effective system design and API integration.
* Champion and manage an evolutionary architecture approach, communicating architectural direction across the Department for Transport family and wider government.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only : whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Person specification
* A strong track record in providing hands:on, pragmatic architectural leadership across a geographically dispersed, multi:service, and technologically diverse environment:working with both internal teams and external service providers.
* Considerable experience in developing and defining strategic target business architecture to support improved organisational outcomes, strategic decision:making, architectural governance, and optimal business design.
* An excellent applied knowledge of modern technical architectures, cloud technology, IT infrastructure, data management, and software development lifecycle management:ideally with experience in enterprise systems such as CRM, compliance, and automation platforms.
* Considerable experience of driving and delivering technological change at pace within a context of or