Senior Enterprise Architect - Birmingham
16 hours ago
Birmingham
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HMRC is building a modern, digital tax administration, and currently runs the biggest digital operation in Government. With 50 million customers to serve, over 60 thousand colleagues to support, and £700 billion to collect to fund UK Plc, our IT operation is huge. Job description This is an exciting opportunity to join HMRC's Enterprise Architecture - Standards, Tools and Artefacts team, a dynamic group working across one of the largest and most complex IT estates in Europe. Our mission is to deliver an architecture strategy that underpins modern, internal-facing services and drives transformation at scale. As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping HMRC's technology direction. You'll create and evolve strategic roadmaps, influence policy, and ensure architectural decisions align with organisational goals. Your work will directly impact HMRC's ability to deliver secure, scalable, and innovative solutions for colleagues and customers. The main responsibilities include developing and maintaining a comprehensive IT architecture strategy by setting standards, technical policy, and direction for HMRC's IT estate. This involves creating and managing reference architectures, defining metadata and taxonomies, and ensuring architectural decisions are aligned with strategic goals and best practices. There is a strong focus on supporting solution design to maximise technology investments, driving innovation, and promoting the standardisation and adoption of enterprise architecture tools and practices. Balanced governance is essential, encouraging both compliance and flexibility, while processes are streamlined to achieve efficiency and scalability. Person specification The successful candidate will optimise EA processes and tool usage for efficiency and scalability, design templates, enforce data standards, and manage artefact catalogues within EA tooling. They will model complex systems logically and communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences, develop and maintain architectural standards aligned with the enterprise IT strategy, and provide consultancy and guidance to build internal capability and foster a self-sustaining architecture community all while understanding commercial and sourcing strategies to support enterprise impact. Please note: Security Check (SC) clearance level, either already held or willing to obtain, is a requirement of this role. Please see Additional Security Information and Security sections below. Essential Criteria: Architecture Tooling & Governance • Strategic Tooling & Standards Management: Experience in strategic enterprise architecture tooling and governance, with proven ability to implement repository-backed modelling solutions and manage artefact catalogues. Skilled in advocating for tooling adoption and establishing robust governance frameworks to ensure consistency and compliance., • Accomplished, • Proficient, • Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle., • Architect for the whole context., • Architecture communication., • Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary., • Family friendly policies., • Personal support., • A name-blind CV, to include your full Employment History, education and professional qualifications, providing details of key achievements for each job/role., • Please attach your CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or Word format, no bigger than 5MB., • Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered. • Architect for the whole context, • Architecture communication • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020