Base pay range
Please apply before role closes 11:55pm 9/1/26. The actual pay will be based on your skills and experience. Talk with your recruiter to learn more.
About HMRC
HMRC is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. The environment is inclusive, respectful, and reflects the diversity of the society we serve. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and offer a range of flexible working patterns to make a fulfilling career at HMRC.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join HMRC’s Enterprise Architecture – Standards, Tools and Artefacts team, a dynamic group working across one of the largest and most complex IT estates in Europe. Our mission is to deliver an architecture strategy that underpins modern, internal-facing services and drives transformation at scale.
Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain a comprehensive IT architecture strategy, setting standards, technical policy, and direction for HMRC’s IT estate.
* Create and manage reference architectures, defining metadata and taxonomies, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and best practices.
* Support solution design to maximise technology investments, driving innovation, and promoting the standardisation and adoption of enterprise architecture tools and practices.
* Implement balanced governance, encouraging compliance and flexibility, streamlining processes for efficiency and scalability.
Person Specification
The successful candidate will optimise EA processes and tool usage for efficiency and scalability, design templates, enforce data standards, and manage artefact catalogues within EA tooling. They will model complex systems logically and communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, develop and maintain architectural standards aligned with the enterprise IT strategy, and provide consultancy and guidance to build internal capability and foster a self-sustaining architecture community while understanding commercial and sourcing strategies to support enterprise impact.
Essential Criteria – Key points of experience we need across three key areas
* Strategic Tooling & Standards Management: Experience in strategic enterprise architecture tooling and governance, implementing repository‑backed modelling solutions and managing artefact catalogues.
* Governance & Standardisation: Structure and standardise deliverables for reuse, propose governance standards to maintain architectural integrity, and develop and maintain architectural standards aligned with enterprise IT strategy and best practices.
* Framework & Notation Familiarity: Familiarity with established frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman and notations like ArchiMate, with strong knowledge across all architectural domains (Business, Data, Application and Technology).
* Stakeholder Management: Proven stakeholder management experience, engaging and influencing stakeholders at all organisational levels, translating complex architectural concepts into clear, meaningful insights tailored to diverse audiences and varying levels of technical understanding.
Transitional Sites Information
These sites are not long‑term sites for HMRC and you may be required to move to a new building in the future.
* Benton Park View, Newcastle – moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
* Telford Plaza, Telford – moving to Parkside Court, Telford
Capability Allowance
The advertised role is part of the Government Digital and Data Profession and has access to a Capability‑Based Allowance. Applicants who are successful at interview will be invited to complete a Capability and Skills Assessment post‑interview. The allowance is non‑contractual, non‑pensionable, and subject to an annual review with the possibility of withdrawal. For both new entrants and existing civil servants, the total compensation offer is a combination of base salary and any capability‑based allowance.
Benefits
* Flexible and hybrid working policies to balance work and personal commitments.
* Generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
* Pension contributions to the Alpha pension scheme equal to at least 28.97% of salary.
* Family friendly policies and personal support.
* Coaching and development opportunities.
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