Lead Enterprise Architect – Data & Cloud Strategy (Hybrid)

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 91,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

DWP pension contributions 28.97%

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to shape the enterprise data architecture and technology direction for the UK government’s digital services. You will provide strategic influence and deep technical credibility across enterprise platforms and data ecosystems.

Join a community of architects, influence major transformation programmes, and help define standards, reference architectures and patterns that support critical national services with hybrid working and a generous benefits

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise-scale architecture in a large, complex organi-sation.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural governance to enable effective decision making.
• Develop reference architectures, standards and guidance for peers.
• Communicate complex architectures to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Shape data strategy, governance, and platform decisions across services.
• Influence transformation programmes and enterprise technology direction.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder presentation

Architectural governance

Reference architectures

Architectural communication

Data modelling

Database technologies

ETL/ELT tools

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

MySQL

MongoDB

DocumentDB

Cassandra

Couchbase

Graph/Ledger/Vector databases

AWS Glue

Informatica

Talend

Apache NiFi

Job description

DWP Digital is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to shape the enterprise data architecture and technology direction for the UK government’s digital services. You will provide strategic influence and deep technical credibility across enterprise platforms and data ecosystems.

Join a community of architects, influence major transformation programmes, and help define standards, reference architectures and patterns that support critical national services with hybrid working and a generous benefits