Lead Enterprise Architect (£57,515 - £80,400)

Government Recruitment Service; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is looking for a Lead Enterprise Architect to join their Architecture Management Office in Birmingham. The role involves leading enterprise solutions, guiding digital transformation efforts, and working collaboratively with external stakeholders. Notable benefits include a significant employer pension contribution, 25 days annual leave, and flexible working options. This position offers a great opportunity to influence business and digital capabilities while promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave, increasing with service

Flexible working options for better work-life balance

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise architecture and digital transformation.
• Strong leadership and coaching skills.
• Ability to assess societal and industry trends.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise solutions to business problems.
• Assist with new Digital Transformation work.
• Design high-level structures for solutions.
• Assess impacts of industry trends.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders.
• Anticipate policy changes.
• Coach others to identify trends.

Job description

The Lead Enterprise Architect will report to the Chief Architect you will work in a team consisting of Lead Enterprise Architects, Lead Technical Architects and Lead Solution Architects and play a pivotal role within the Architecture Management Office leading the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.

Benefits

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Provide enterprise solutions to specific business problems and challenges across one or more Enterprise Architecture domains.
• Assist with requests of new Digital Transformation work and support in the building of business cases.
• Responsible for the design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of solutions that meet current and future business needs, encompassing changes to service, process, organisation and operating models.
• Assess how trends in society and industry practices might impact the organisation.
• Work with people outside of your organisation to inform to inform policies, strategies and standards.
• Anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architecture work.
• Coach others in identifying important trends.

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 attached 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.