Principal Enterprise Architect: Driving Digital Transformation

Government Recruitment Service; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Edinburgh is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the development and governance of our enterprise architecture, aligning technology with organisational strategy, digital transformation and secure-by-design principles.

You will provide architectural leadership across platforms and technology domains, ensuring design integrity and value for money, while collaborating with delivery teams and partners.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise architecture governance and strategy.
• Ability to translate business strategy into technology roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• own and maintain the enterprise-wide architecture design framework across business, application, data and technology domains
• maintain architecture standards and design principles, ensuring solutions comply with frameworks such as TOGAF and align with the UK government's Technology Code of Practice
• operate architecture governance processes, including design review boards and enterprise assurance
• translate organisational strategy into technology and architecture roadmaps
• oversee cloud and platform architecture
• define architecture lifecycle processes from concept through design, implementation and retirement, and provide independent design assurance for complex programmes and digital services
• provide architectural leadership across multidisciplinary teams and support senior leaders with technology strategy discussions and decision-making.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service in Edinburgh is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the development and governance of our enterprise architecture, aligning technology with organisational strategy, digital transformation and secure-by-design principles.

You will provide architectural leadership across platforms and technology domains, ensuring design integrity and value for money, while collaborating with delivery teams and partners.