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 DVSA 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 DVSA’s 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 DVSA’s organisational management.
• Develop and communicate the organisation’s enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring robust governance, audit, control, and compliance across DVSA’s 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 DVSA’s 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 us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We 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 environment—working 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 management—ideally 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, Gartner’s 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 DVSA, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=b3duZXI9NTA3MDAwMCZwYWdlY2xhc3M9Sm9icyZzZWFyY2hwYWdlPTEmcGFnZWFjdGlvbj12aWV3dmFjYnlqb2JsaXN0JmpvYmxpc3Rfdmlld192YWM9MTk2MzY0NCZvd25lcnR5cGU9ZmFpciZ1c2Vyc2VhcmNoY29udGV4dD0xNDQyOTc3MTkmc2VhcmNoc29ydD1zY29yZSZyZXFzaWc9MTc1Mzk1Nzk1NC0xZDQzYzMzNjVhNGE5MWFhNmY0NDFjZDI1YWE0MTA0OTk2ZTAzNTQ5

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