Senior Enterprise Architect - Birmingham

Senior Enterprise Architect - Birmingham

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Job summary

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This is a unique opportunity for an Architect to work within HMRC at a time of significant change and transformation as it drives the focus of IT delivery away from point solutions and exploits the opportunities that cloud technologies can provide.

This outstanding opportunity is for an experienced Architect to work within the Architecture function of HMRC, part of the Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) Group to be a part of the Architecture Office team.

This is a senior leadership role that will provide opportunities to bring together, develop and lead teams of professionals to promote consistent architecture across a multi-billion-pound portfolio of business transformation projects, including cross-government projects.

CDIO values and empowers the growth of its people and offers the "CDIO University". This is a one stop shop for all things learning and development. The comprehensive offer encompassing academic, personal and career related opportunity and learning, ensuring all receive a consistent approach to technical learning. This includes access to subject matter experts, technical learning, professional communities, academies, apprenticeships, talent schemes as well as providing, delivering, encouraging and supporting activities for personal growth and wellbeing.

Job description

Our CDIO Architecture Office team (AO) are responsible for:

Strategic impacting of Enterprise Level Change in HMRC that impacts CDIO's accountabilities to enable decision making in alignment with the IT strategy by;

• Producing briefings for Tech keyholder on all change in the end-to-end lifecycle(E2ELC) through strong collaboration with Solution, Enterprise and Chief Architects and experts in P+UCD to produce Cross-cutting and Enterprise Level outputs to give senior leaders a clear picture of the impact of Architecture changes and alignment to HMRC's IT Strategy and Roadmaps and recommend where action is needed to get better clarity of requirements.
• Tracking and managing those conditions raised during the keyholder impacting process.
• Impacting items at the triage stage of the E2ELC
• Leading the creation of architectural outputs to enable cost estimating, sequencing, and support Chief Operating Office with capacity views for fiscal events such as Budgets and Spending Reviews.
• Maintaining a repository of the impacts moving forward to enable more proactive impacting of change using forward view and pipeline of changes by engaging key change forums such as EPWG, Design Forum, CIDC.

This is a key role in the Chief Technology & Design Office area of CDIO and an exciting opportunity at a critical time as the Department moves to deliver its commitments agreed with Government in the next spending round and as we align to a new operating model in CDIO.

You will be part of a team including Solution and Enterprise Architects and Business Analysts to ensure that changes are impacted against the Strategy and Roadmaps. Empowering, supporting and developing them and contributing to the wider EA team to achieve the highest performance standards.

You will take responsibility for tasks and deliver products to deadlines, removing blockers and driving collaboration across a wide-ranging landscape including architecture, business, finance, commercial and Change Group stakeholders. Facilitating senior level understanding of the impact of changes which will decide where further activity is required to ensure that any Cross-cutting elements or activities that will impact Strategy are understood.

This is an exciting opportunity suited to someone who is proactive and thrives on working to tight timescales with changing priorities.

As a team member you will be accountable for IT impacting to ensure enterprise level business and IT change in HMRC is impacted strategically, consistently and in a data driven way through a number of lenses to ensure consequences of proposals are understood by stakeholders.

Working at a strategic level you will engage with a host of business and IT stakeholders and key partners, influencing policy, and set directions for technology and business change in line with HMRC 'Digital by Default' strategy.

You will champion the adoption of latest technologies, whilst transforming HMRC's large IT estate towards a smaller number of strategic platforms as well as operate as an internal consultant in IT infrastructure architecture, developing and driving adoption of HMRC's Enterprise Architecture vision, strategies, directions, and roadmaps.

Person specification

In this role, you will:

• Act as a trusted ambassador for CDIO striving to make us a trusted IT partner to the wider department.
• Ensure your team delivers strategic outcomes through others and be accountable for the efficient production of briefings, early solution, policy, and fiscal event impacting to time and understand and consider dependencies of varying complexity, feeding into larger programmes and portfolios.
• Work in collaboration with solution, enterprise, and chief architects to produce cross cutting and enterprise level outputs.
• Collaborate with our Planning team and liaise with internal and external partners to partners to manage and maintain the IT Strategy plan and develop and influence a culture of capability-based impacting across HMRC.
• Be responsible for understanding, managing, and communicating to complex stakeholder groups, balancing priorities.
• Impact in-flight Project scope changes that may affect the IT Strategy Plan are escalated appropriately dependent on the level of dependencies.
• Keep up to date with the wider digital economy and identify advances in technology, emerging trends and be able to understand and articulate how this could impact HMRC.
• Develop, document, and establish architectural principles, policies, standards and reference architectures.
• Provide architecture governance and technology decision making aligned to enterprise architecture directions.
• Keep up to date with the wider digital economy and identify advances in technology, emerging trends and how this could impact on the organisation.

Essential Criteria

• A broad IT and Enterprise Architecture (EA) background, with experience in architecture enterprise scale IT or architecture roles where you will have gained experience of large-scale IT.
• Experience of driving, delivering, and assuring technological change against the background of organisational transformation.
• Experience of engaging at a strategic level and playing a key role in setting organisational objectives, influencing policy and leading on technical and business change.
• Demonstrable experience in developing Technical Capability within an organisation. Including empowering, supporting, and developing staff.
• Experience of articulating strategic approaches to the modernisation and rationalisation of complex legacy IT estates.
• Stakeholder Management - The ability to simplify complex and technical information for non-technical, often senior audiences.
• Being able to see the big picture - an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and an understanding of their wider implications and how this interrelates with the organisation's IT capability.
• Ability to work under broad direction in challenging and unpredictable environments, playing a key role in influencing strategic decision making and understand strategic consequences of decisions.
• Able to work effectively in pressurised situations and can be relied upon to deliver, irrespective of circumstances.
• Experience of working with policies and projects across the end-to-end design lifecycle.
• Experience of working in multi discipline change teams to produce measurable costed solution impacts.
• The ability to work across organisational boundaries to identify, clarify and resolve problems.
• Be a confident communicator with good interpersonal skills and a proven dedication to continuous improvement in self and others.

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding and experience of commercial contracts, procurement and sourcing strategies.
• TOGAF, AWS, Microsoft cloud certifications.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture tools such as Abacus, etc.
• Experience in driving Architecture Governance.
• Experience of working within a large and complex IT Estate.
• A passion for continuous improvement for yourself, your team and the processes you own

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office closures

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC's Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

Capability Allowance

The advertised role is part of the Government Digital and Data Profession and has access to a Capability-Based Allowance. Any allowance awarded will be based on an assessment, at interview, of your capability against the skills advertised for this role. Please see the attached candidate pack for more information.

The allowance values are set by HMRC, subject to remaining in a qualifying role, and are non-pensionable. This allowance is non-contractual, subject to an annual review and could be withdrawn at any time.

For both new entrants and existing civil servants, the total reward compensation offer is a combination of base salary and, if applicable, a capability-based allowance. New entrants to the Civil Service will start on the pay range minimum. For existing civil servants, our policies on level transfer and promotion will apply.

For more information please visit the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (opens in a new window).

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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