Chief Enterprise Architect

The organisation is seeking a Chief Enterprise Architect to lead its new Enterprise Architecture team across various UK locations, offering a salary between £64,108 and £95,600. This role involves providing strategic technology leadership, overseeing the development of complex digital services, and ensuring that architecture aligns with business goals. The Chief Enterprise Architect will manage a team of architects, drive technological change, and maintain compliance within the technology landscape. Candidates should possess extensive architectural leadership experience, knowledge of modern technologies, and relevant qualifications. Interested applicants can apply through the organisation's website.

Chief Enterprise Architect
Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea
Salary: £64,108 – £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, we’d love to hear from you!
The organisation 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 the organisations services.
Operating effectively with multi-disciplinary teams of Digital & 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 their organisational management.
Develop and communicate the organisations enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring robust governance, audit, control, and compliance across their 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 their 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 them as an organisation, and they will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. They 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 environmentworking 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 managementideally 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 organisational transformation, operating across functional and organisational boundaries with shifting priorities.
Demonstrable experience in developing technical capability within an organisation, including empowering, supporting, and developing staff to achieve high performance.
Strong relationship-building, influencing, and negotiation skills to provide effective technical and professional leadership to the wider architecture and technology community.
Qualifications
You will need either:
A degree level qualification in a Digital Development and Technology discipline; OR
A formal architectural qualification in either BCS, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Zachman, Gartners Enterprise Architecture Method; OR
A formal cloud architecture qualification either Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert and/or AWS Solution Architect Associate; OR
A formal architecture modelling qualification in either Archimate, UML (Unified Modelling Language) or BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation); OR
Be able to demonstrate relevant experience at an equivalent level to the above.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

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