Digital Skills Allowance
This post is eligible for a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £11,400 per annum.
About us
The MOD's digital teams ensure we remain among the most technologically advanced Armed Forces in the world. We develop and lead in cutting‑edge data science, automation, and cybersecurity solutions to protect the UK and its interests, at home and abroad. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield, by leading humanitarian efforts and driving innovation that impacts lives across the globe.
About the role
As Senior Enterprise Architect, you’ll work with civil servants and contractors across various levels, providing key leadership in translating business strategy into actionable change and technical delivery. You’ll support Lead Architects in shaping, aligning and driving the organisation's strategic direction, ensuring it is effectively developed, agreed upon and implemented.
You’ll help develop target architectures and templates for some of MOD’s most complex use cases and work with partners from across government departments and other nations to develop end‑to‑end solutions to meet changing capability needs.
What you’ll be doing
* Develop and maintain enterprise‑level models, including as‑is and target models.
* Network and communicate with stakeholders across domains, enterprises and government departments to develop the models.
* Identify influences or risks and provide mitigations to minimise impact.
* Use emerging technologies and approaches, horizon scanning to develop target architectures.
* Identify opportunities for improvement.
* Play an active part in the team and understand how to deliver the team’s objectives to meet organisational goals.
About you
We expect a strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and modelling, including the ability to document the current state and design future state architectures.
You’ll be able to provide technical support to project solution architects to ensure consistency with the overarching strategy, and demonstrate familiarity with architectural frameworks, languages and methodologies.
You’ll need knowledge of cloud computing concepts and cloud migration strategies, and experience implementing and managing Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) within an interconnected system landscape.
Required:
* Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, providing direction and challenging when required.
* Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
* Great communication skills, able to identify problems and clearly communicate to both technical and non‑technical teams.
Additional:
* TOGAF certification
* BCS Enterprise and Solution Architecture certification
* Archimate training
* ITIL certification
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £46,040, the Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. You will also receive:
* Learning and development tailored to your role with a minimum of 5 days per year; 25 days paid annual leave rising to 30 days upon completion of five years’ service. Additional 10 days annual leave per year in up to 10 days.
* Eight public holidays per year, plus leave for HM The King’s birthday.
* A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Parental and Adoption Leave.
* Discounts on a range of services within and external to the civil service – Defence Discount Service, Civil Service societies for sports and leisure, healthcare, insurance, motoring, company discounts with Virgin, Vodafone, and Microsoft Office.
* In‑year rewards and ‘thank you’ schemes such as vouchers and gift cards.
* A modern building with staff restaurant, coffee shops, sports facilities, fully equipped 24/7 gym, daily classes run by trained PT instructors, and onsite parking.
* Included lunchtime walks.
Equality and Diversity
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of our audience and the wider society in the UK. We are a proud equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities.
We also recognise the importance of a good work‑life balance and accommodate flexible working, including part‑time and job shares for all our roles. Please let us know if you want to explore such arrangements at any stage.
For full details about this vacancy, please click ‘Apply’ or search Civil Service Jobs, ref. no. 463347.
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