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.