Enterprise Architect Ref. 3658 – Cheltenham
Salary: £71,889 to £80,079 inclusive of basic salary, concessionary payment, and skills payments. This range depends on skills and experience. Additional opportunities for allowances and skills‑related payments may be available.
Job Overview
As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll lead and support other architects in shaping and embedding GCHQ’s enterprise architecture, with responsibility for a defined remit of one or more departments. You’ll design and guide architectures, influence decision‑making, and manage risk. You’ll act as a trusted advisor, communicating complex topics to stakeholders, and apply your skills to cutting‑edge technology and interesting challenges, furthering your career.
Responsibilities
You’ll work on a complex portfolio of solutions, designing and maintaining artifacts for programmes and services within your departments, balancing organisational priorities and practical delivery. You'll ensure alignment with long‑term strategic goals, user needs, and industry best practices and may take on line management responsibilities for a small team. You will collaborate with delivery teams, engineers, and business colleagues, working with senior leaders, external partners and industry bodies to shape shared direction and manage dependencies. Occasional travel across the UK may be required.
Qualifications
Practical experience working as an Enterprise Architect, including leading teams or line‑managing others, and a strong grasp of architecture standards and frameworks such as ArchiMate, TOGAF, Zachman, and MODAF. Ability to translate organisational goals into actionable architectural strategies, lead design initiatives, identify risks and constraints, and optimise environments across technology, data, and processes. Excellent communication skills, collaborative, adept at influencing and negotiating, and adaptive to shifting priorities.
Training & Development
Full induction into GCHQ, formal and on‑the‑job training, continuous professional development, support for learning and development opportunities, and support for qualification and certification costs.
Rewards & Benefits
* Annual leave: 25 days rising to 30 days after 5 years, plus 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays.
* Employee performance scheme.
* Interest‑free season ticket loan (travel and parking).
* Excellent pension scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* On‑site gym, restaurant, and coffee bars (at some locations).
* Paid parental and adoption leave.
Equal Opportunities
GCHQ is committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, disabilities, and neurodivergent conditions.
Disability Confidence
GCHQ is a Disability Confident organisation, offering a fair interview process and support for disabled candidates applying.
#J-18808-Ljbffr