Enterprise Architect
8 days ago
Glasgow
Description Are you looking to begin or grow a career in IT architecture Or perhaps you are currently working as an architect and looking for a new challenge Social Security Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team and drive our young and growing organisation further forward developing strategies improving its business processes and shaping the future of its technology all making a positive impact on our clients lives. You may already be working as an analyst and looking to step up into a more senior design role or you may be a technical architect with a desire to work on an enterprise-wide any case you can expect to work with a friendly dynamic talented and self-motivated team with a great opportunity to apply your experience and ideas and make direct and tangible improvements to the services we deliver to our clients and colleagues. The post will be based in either Dundee or Glasgow with regular travel to provide leadership across all sites as well as engage extensively with Scottish Government colleagues based in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Social Security Scotland an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government is nearing completion of the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over 400m Social Security Scotland has implemented social security services that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come. With devolved social security services now in place the organisation faces an exciting future of continuous improvement technology maintenance and renewal longer term strategic change and further devolved policy delivery with the objective of providing the most effective efficient and economic service possible. We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland a positive and inclusive culture which supports our people to flourish by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect and recognise each others contributions. Enterprise Architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. They are responsible for: • Identifying change priorities to enable rapid delivery, • Leading and influencing cross-cutting capability delivery for change, • Owning the enterprise architecture vision strategy and roadmapscovering current future and transitional states across business technology and data, • Facilitating collaboration across the organisation, • Understanding the ecosystem and inter-dependencies including reference architectures, • Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains portfolios and programmes, • Guiding decisions on business technology and data to promote reuse sustainability and scalabilitymaximising value and reducing risk, • Establishing architectural principles policies and standards, • Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure decisions align with EA strategy, • Developing the architecture community, • Conducting horizon scanning to identify industry trends and their potential organisational impact and opportunities Responsibilities Responsibilities • Engage with projects and partners to understand scope and design appropriate enterprise architectures, • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to provide direction and challenge reaching consensus, • Identify problems proactively and translate them into understandable non-technical descriptions, • Act as the enterprise architecture expert in stakeholder engagement and scene setting, • Support domain assurance functions aligned with governance principles and standards, • Contribute to developing architecture strategies, • Deeply understand Social Security Scotlands business strategy to identify suitable solutions and roadmaps, • Analyse options thoroughly to recommend appropriate approaches across environments and organisational models, • Act as a critical friend to stakeholders on best practice technology use within the Architecture Strategy, • Promote a culture of continuous delivery and improvement guiding governance digital and organisational design, • Produce and maintain enterprise architecture deliverables throughout the project lifecycle and beyond, • Collaborate with cyber security colleagues to ensure architectures are robust scalable and secure, • Review external technical proposals and contribute to implementation recommendations, • Work within agile multi-disciplinary teams applying agile methods where appropriate, • Foster an open collaborative approach to knowledge sharing, • Contribute to the development of an enterprise practice within the wider CDO Architecture team, • Act as a communicator between technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders Qualifications Success Profiles We use an assessment framework called Success Profiles which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about how we assess the ______ Success Profiles We use an assessment framework called Success Profiles which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about how we assess the ___Description Are you looking to begin or grow a career in IT architecture Or perhaps you are currently working as an architect and looking for a new challenge Social Security Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team and drive our young and growing organisation further forward developing strategies improving its business processes and shaping the future of its technology all making a positive impact on our clients lives. You may already be working as an analyst and looking to step up into a more senior design role or you may be a technical architect with a desire to work on an enterprise-wide any case you can expect to work with a friendly dynamic talented and self-motivated team with a great opportunity to apply your experience and ideas and make direct and tangible improvements to the services we deliver to our clients and colleagues. The post will be based in either Dundee or Glasgow with regular travel to provide leadership across all sites as well as engage extensively with Scottish Government colleagues based in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Social Security Scotland an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government is nearing completion of the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over 400m Social Security Scotland has implemented social security services that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come. With devolved social security services now in place the organisation faces an exciting future of continuous improvement technology maintenance and renewal longer term strategic change and further devolved policy delivery with the objective of providing the most effective efficient and economic service possible. We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland a positive and inclusive culture which supports our people to flourish by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect and recognise each others contributions. Enterprise Architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. They are responsible for: • Identifying change priorities to enable rapid delivery, • Leading and influencing cross-cutting capability delivery for change, • Owning the enterprise architecture vision strategy and roadmapscovering current future and transitional states across business technology and data, • Facilitating collaboration across the organisation, • Understanding the ecosystem and inter-dependencies including reference architectures, • Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains portfolios and programmes, • Guiding decisions on business technology and data to promote reuse sustainability and scalabilitymaximising value and reducing risk, • Establishing architectural principles policies and standards, • Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure decisions align with EA strategy, • Developing the architecture community, • Conducting horizon scanning to identify industry trends and their potential organisational impact and opportunities Responsibilities Responsibilities • Engage with projects and partners to understand scope and design appropriate enterprise architectures, • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to provide direction and challenge reaching consensus, • Identify problems proactively and translate them into understandable non-technical descriptions, • Act as the enterprise architecture expert in stakeholder engagement and scene setting, • Support domain assurance functions aligned with governance principles and standards, • Contribute to developing architecture strategies, • Deeply understand Social Security Scotlands business strategy to identify suitable solutions and roadmaps, • Analyse options thoroughly to recommend appropriate approaches across environments and organisational models, • Act as a critical friend to stakeholders on best practice technology use within the Architecture Strategy, • Promote a culture of continuous delivery and improvement guiding governance digital and organisational design, • Produce and maintain enterprise architecture deliverables throughout the project lifecycle and beyond, • Collaborate with cyber security colleagues to ensure architectures are robust scalable and secure, • Review external technical proposals and contribute to implementation recommendations, • Work within agile multi-disciplinary teams applying agile methods where appropriate, • Foster an open collaborative approach to knowledge sharing, • Contribute to the development of an enterprise practice within the wider CDO Architecture team, • Act as a communicator between technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders Qualifications Success Profiles We use an assessment framework called Success Profiles which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about how we assess the * * * * ___Description Are you looking to begin or grow a career in IT architecture Or perhaps you are currently working as an architect and looking for a new challenge Social Security Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team and drive our young and growing organisation further forward developing strategies improving its business processes and shaping the future of its technology all making a positive impact on our clients lives. You may already be working as an analyst and looking to step up into a more senior design role or you may be a technical architect with a desire to work on an enterprise-wide any case you can expect to work with a friendly dynamic talented and self-motivated team with a great opportunity to apply your experience and ideas and make direct and tangible improvements to the services we deliver to our clients and colleagues. The post will be based in either Dundee or Glasgow with regular travel to provide leadership across all sites as well as engage extensively with Scottish Government colleagues based in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Social Security Scotland an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government is nearing completion of the largest and most complex IT and digital change programme since devolution. With a lifetime budget of over 400m Social Security Scotland has implemented social security services that will support the people of Scotland for decades to come. With devolved social security services now in place the organisation faces an exciting future of continuous improvement technology maintenance and renewal longer term strategic change and further devolved policy delivery with the objective of providing the most effective efficient and economic service possible. We aim to develop within Social Security Scotland a positive and inclusive culture which supports our people to flourish by embedding a working environment where we all treat each other with dignity and respect and recognise each others contributions. Enterprise Architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. They are responsible for: • Identifying change priorities to enable rapid delivery, • Leading and influencing cross-cutting capability delivery for change, • Owning the enterprise architecture vision strategy and roadmapscovering current future and transitional states across business technology and data, • Facilitating collaboration across the organisation, • Understanding the ecosystem and inter-dependencies including reference architectures, • Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains portfolios and programmes, • Guiding decisions on business technology and data to promote reuse sustainability and scalabilitymaximising value and reducing risk, • Establishing architectural principles policies and standards, • Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure decisions align with EA strategy, • Developing the architecture community, • Conducting horizon scanning to identify industry trends and their potential organisational impact and opportunities Responsibilities Responsibilities • Engage with projects and partners to understand scope and design appropriate enterprise architectures, • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to provide direction and challenge reaching consensus, • Identify problems proactively and translate them into understandable non-technical descriptions, • Act as the enterprise architecture expert in stakeholder engagement and scene setting, • Support domain assurance functions aligned with governance principles and standards, • Contribute to developing architecture strategies, • Deeply understand Social Security Scotlands business strategy to identify suitable solutions and roadmaps, • Analyse options thoroughly to recommend appropriate approaches across environments and organisational models, • Act as a critical friend to stakeholders on best practice technology use within the Architecture Strategy, • Promote a culture of continuous delivery and improvement guiding governance digital and organisational design, • Produce and maintain enterprise architecture deliverables throughout the project lifecycle and beyond, • Collaborate with cyber security colleagues to ensure architectures are robust scalable and secure, • Review external technical proposals and contribute to implementation recommendations, • Work within agile multi-disciplinary teams applying agile methods where appropriate, • Foster an open collaborative approach to knowledge sharing, • Contribute to the development of an enterprise practice within the wider CDO Architecture team, • Act as a communicator between technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders Qualifications Success Profiles We use an assessment framework called Success Profiles which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about how we assess the * * * *