Senior Enterprise Architect

UK Ministry of Defence; Corsham; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development

Annual leave 25–30 days

Civil Service pension

On-site parking

Staff restaurant & coffee shops

On-site gym

Defence Discount Service

Job summary

UK Ministry of Defence is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to translate business strategy into actionable change and drive technical delivery across departments. You will shape target architectures, support senior architects, and collaborate with partners to meet evolving capability needs.

The role focuses on developing enterprise models, ensuring consistency with strategy, and applying cloud, IAM, and PKI concepts in a complex interlinked landscape.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of architecture principles and modelling to document current and future state.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks, languages and methodologies.
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and cloud migration strategies.
• Experience implementing Identity and Access Management (IAM) and PKI.
• Strong problem-solving and alignment of technical solutions with business goals.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Enterprise level models, including as-is and target models.
• Network and communicate with stakeholders across domains, enterprises and government departments to develop the models.
• Identify influences or risks and provide mitigations to minimise impact.
• Use emerging technologies and approaches, horizon scanning to develop target architectures.
• Identify opportunities for improvement.
• Play an active part in the team and understand how to deliver the team’s objectives, to meet organisational goals.

Skills

Architecture principles

Modelling

Cloud computing concepts

IAM

PKI

Stakeholder communication

Problem-solving

Education

TOGAF certification

BCS Enterprise and Solution Architecture Certification

Open Agile Architecture Practitioner

Archimate Training

ITIL certification

Job description

About the role:

In this role, as Senior Enterprise Architect, we’re offering a great opportunity to develop within Enterprise architecture, using your previous experience in the architecture space. We’ll support your learning and development and build on your existing knowledge and skills.

You’ll work with civil servants and contractors across various levels, providing a key leadership role, translating business strategy into actionable change and technical delivery. You’ll support Lead Architects in shaping, aligning and driving the organisation's strategic direction, ensuring it is effectively developed, agreed upon and implemented.

You’ll help develop target architectures and templates for some of MOD’s most complex use cases and you’ll work with partners from across government departments and other nations, to develop end-to-end solutions to meet changing capability needs.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and maintain Enterprise level models, including as-is and target models.
• Network and communicate with stakeholders across domains, enterprises and government departments to develop the models.
• Identify influences or risks and provide mitigations to minimise impact.
• Use emerging technologies and approaches, horizon scanning to develop target architectures.
• Identify opportunities for improvement.
• Play an active part in the team and understand how to deliver the team’s objectives, to meet organisational goals.

About you:

We would expect you to be able to demonstrate knowledge of architecture principles and modelling, including the ability to document current state, and design future state, architectures.

You’ll be able to communicate with stakeholders, project solution architects and wider architectural teams, to ensure consistency with the overarching strategy and demonstrate familiarity with architectural frameworks, languages and methodologies.

You’ll also need knowledge of cloud computing concepts and cloud migration strategies and of implementing and managing Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), within an interconnected system landscape.

You’ll also need:

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, providing direction and challenging when required.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to align technical solutions with business objectives.
• Great communication skills, able to identify problems and clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical teams.

If not held already, opportunity may be provided to gain the following when in post:

• TOGAF certification
• BCS Enterprise and Solution Architecture Certification
• Open Agile Architecture™ Practitioner Certification
• Archimate Training
• ITIL certification

This post may be eligible for a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £11,400 per annum. Eligibility for this allowance will be assessed at interview against the 4 core technical skills only and reviewed annually in line with departmental policy.

What makes us great!:

Alongside your salary of £46,040, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,337 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role with a dedicated minimum of 5 days per year.
• 25 days paid annual leave rising (by 1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of five years’ service.
• Ability to roll up to 10 days annual leave per year.
• In addition to eight public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The King’s birthday.
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Parental and Adoption Leave.
• Discounts on a range of services within and external to the civil service – Defence Discount Service, Civil Service societies for Sports and Leisure, Healthcare, Insurance, Motoring, Company discounts with Virgin, Vodafone, and Microsoft Office.
• In year rewards and ‘thank you’ schemes such as vouchers and gift cards
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• MOD Corsham has on site parking, staff restaurant, coffee shops, sports facilities including fully equipped 24/7 gym for a fraction of the cost of a commercial gym. Classes run daily by fully trained PT instructors. It is a modern building surrounded by countryside, perfect for lunchtimes walks.

Equality and Diversity

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. It’s vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.