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

Government Recruitment Service; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to provide enterprise solutions and lead digital transformation initiatives. The role involves designing structures for solutions and assessing trends that impact the organization. Candidates should have experience in Enterprise Architecture and a collaborative mindset to coach others. Benefits include extensive leave and a generous pension scheme.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in providing enterprise solutions across Enterprise Architecture domains.
• Ability to assist with Digital Transformation work and support business case development.
• Strong understanding of high-level structures for solution design.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise solutions to specific business problems.
• Assist with requests for new Digital Transformation work.
• Design and communicate high-level structures for solutions.
• Assess impacts of societal and industry trends.
• Work externally to inform policies and strategies.
• Build resilience through architecture work.
• Coach others on identifying important 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.