# Principal Enterprise Architect

**Company**: Insolvency Service
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands, England; Exeter, Devon, South West, England; Ipswich, Suffolk, East of England, England; Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber, England; Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England; Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, England; Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England; London Borough of Croydon, Greater London, London, England; Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, West Midlands, England; Cardiff, Wales, Wales; Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 72,113 - 87,698 per year
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the development and governance of our enterprise architecture. As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will help the Insolvency Service align its technology with organisational strategy, digital transformation and secure-by-design principles. Your work will support long-term capability, operational resilience and value for money.

The Insolvency Service is a UK government agency that helps protect the UK economy. We are changing how we do things, becoming faster, more digitally driven, and more focused on stopping problems before they escalate.

**Responsibilities**

- Own and maintain the enterprise-wide architecture design framework across business, application, data and technology domains

- Maintain architecture standards and design principles, ensuring that solutions comply with frameworks such as the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and align with the UK government’s Technology Code of Practice

- Operate architecture governance processes, including design review boards and enterprise assurance

- Translate organisational strategy into technology and architecture roadmaps

- Oversee cloud and platform architecture

- Define architecture lifecycle processes from concept through design, implementation and retirement, and provide independent design assurance for complex programmes and digital services

- Provide architectural leadership across multidisciplinary teams and support senior leaders with technology strategy discussions and decision-making.

**Person Specification**

- Extensive experience in enterprise architecture and enterprise design leadership

- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF

- Deep expertise in cloud architecture, particularly Microsoft Azure

- Experience establishing and operating architecture governance frameworks

- Experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise technology environments

- A strong understanding of cloud platforms, identity and access management, security architecture, integration patterns and platform engineering

- A proven ability to operate at strategic and enterprise levels simultaneously.

**Benefits**

- Salary: £72,113 - £87,698 per year

- Flexible working arrangements and flexi-time

- Full-time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service

- In addition to this, you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave

- Competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave

- 5 days paid leave for learning and development

- 5 days paid for volunteering

- A Cycle to Work scheme

- Staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life.

## Skills

### Required
- enterprise architecture
- TOGAF
- cloud architecture
- Microsoft Azure
- architecture governance
- cloud platforms
- identity and access management
- security architecture
- integration patterns
- platform engineering

### Nice to have
- experience working within UK Government digital and security frameworks
- knowledge of the Government Digital Service Standard
- experience using enterprise architecture modelling tools
- familiarity with modern IT operating models, platform engineering and cloud operating models

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