# Defence Intelligence - Senior Cloud Enterprise Architect **Company**: Ministry of Defence **Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: GBP 61,630 per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Other **Apply**: https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/defence-intelligence-senior-cloud-enterprise-architect-101784?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e7ad2de8-9b0 ## Description The Senior Cloud Enterprise Architect will provide enterprise architectural leadership for cloud services across Defence Intelligence and, where directed, the Military Intelligence Service, spanning Official, Secret and Top Secret environments. The post holder will translate strategic objectives, operational requirements and technology opportunities into coherent cloud architecture principles, target states and transition roadmaps. They will define architectural standards and reusable patterns, guide workload placement and technology investment decisions, and assure cloud proposals against Defence architecture, cyber-security, interoperability, resilience and value-for-money requirements. Working with Defence Digital & Data colleagues, cyber and security specialists, data and solution architects, service owners, delivery teams, industry and wider government partners, the role will build agreement around architectural decisions and ensure cloud adoption remains coherent across organisational and security boundaries. This is a senior architecture role requiring strong enterprise architecture capability, practical cloud knowledge, sound judgement and the ability to communicate complex decisions to technical and non-technical audiences. Travel to DI and other HMG sites within the UK will be required. A small amount of international travel may be required. **Main Responsibilities:** - Own and maintain the Defence Intelligence enterprise cloud architecture vision, strategy, principles and roadmap, aligned with Defence and Government direction. - Develop and maintain business cases, current-state, target-state and transition architectures for cloud capabilities across relevant security classifications. - Lead problem definition, architecture option analysis and trade-off assessments, balancing operational outcomes, security, interoperability, resilience, scalability, sustainability, affordability and value for money. - Assure designs and investment proposals against enterprise architecture, cyber-security, data, service and technology requirements. - Represent Defence Intelligence at architecture boards, design authorities and cross-Defence governance forums, escalating material risks and resolving architectural conflicts. - Promote reuse, interoperability and standardisation while identifying opportunities to simplify the estate, retire duplication and reduce technical debt. - Undertake horizon scanning and assess emerging cloud technologies, supplier developments and architectural patterns for their relevance to Defence Intelligence. - Communicate complex architectural issues and recommendations clearly to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders. **Person specification:** We are looking for an experienced enterprise architect who can operate confidently across organisational, professional and security boundaries. You will be comfortable shaping strategy in a complex environment where requirements may be unclear, technology choices involve significant trade-offs, and progress depends on the quality of your judgement, evidence and influence. **Essential criteria:** - Significant experience operating as an enterprise, domain or senior solution architect in a large, complex or federated digital environment. - Experience translating organisational strategy and operational needs into architecture principles, target states, transition roadmaps and implementable change. - Demonstrable experience architecting for the whole context, balancing business outcomes, user needs, security, data, technology, service, commercial, affordability and sustainability considerations. - Experience leading complex problem definition, option analysis and architectural decision-making, with clear rationale and traceability. - Experience assuring strategies, designs or investment proposals against enterprise architecture and managing architectural risks, exceptions or technical debt. - Strong architecture communication skills, including the ability to explain complex decisions and trade-offs to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Experience influencing across organisational boundaries and building consensus around strategic architecture direction. **Desirable criteria:** - Experience working in Defence, Intelligence, National Security or another highly regulated or security-conscious environment. - Experience designing or assuring services across multiple security classifications or high-assurance environments. - Knowledge of cloud security, identity, networking, resilience, interoperability and service operating models. - Understanding of platform engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, FinOps and technology lifecycle management. - A relevant cloud architecture qualification, such as AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent. **Benefits:** Alongside your salary of £61,630, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,854 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. We offer a range of excellent benefits including but not limited to the following: - Learning and development tailored to your role - An environment with flexible working options - A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity - A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% - Leave entitlement - 25 day annual leave allowance per year increasing by 1 day per year (maximum 30 days per year). In addition, 8 statutory Bank Holidays and 1 privilege day per year. We also offer an excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave. - Special Paid Leave to volunteer up to 6 days a year - London site has a Gym and onsite shop. ## Skills ### Required - enterprise architecture - cloud architecture - cyber-security - interoperability - resilience - sustainability - affordability - value for money - cloud security - identity - networking - service operating models - platform engineering - DevSecOps - infrastructure as code - FinOps - technology lifecycle management ### Nice to have - AWS Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert - Google Professional Cloud Architect --- Source: [Apply at jobsgopublic.com](https://www.jobsgopublic.com/job/defence-intelligence-senior-cloud-enterprise-architect-101784?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)