Senior Enterprise Architect - Birmingham
3 days ago
Birmingham
About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. HMRC Enterprise Operations Team is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect. HMRC is undergoing a major transformation to modernise and future-proof its IT estate, supporting one of the largest and most complex operational environments in the public sector. Our Enterprise Architecture (Enterprise Operations) team is at the heart of this change, shaping and governing technology strategies that underpin critical business functions and large-scale transformation programmes. Working across a diverse and evolving landscape, the team sets architectural direction, develops strategic roadmaps, and ensures alignment with organisational objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking group at the forefront of digital innovation, where your expertise will help drive the delivery of robust, scalable, and secure technology solutions that have a profound impact on both HMRC's customers and colleagues. Job description Our Enterprise Architecture (Enterprise Operations) team is at the heart of this change, shaping and governing technology strategies that underpin critical business functions and large-scale transformation programmes. Working across a diverse and evolving landscape, the team sets architectural direction, develops strategic roadmaps, and ensures alignment with organisational objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to join HMRC's Enterprise Architecture 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 key role in shaping HMRC's technology direction. You'll create and evolve strategic technology 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. As part of the Enterprise Architecture - Enterprise Operations team, you will provide architectural leadership across the enterprise platforms and services that support key operational functions such as workforce, learning, estates, and corporate enablement. The role operates at an enterprise scale, ensuring that operational capabilities are coherently designed, governed, and evolved in line with strategic objectives and organisational priorities. You will work closely with stakeholders across Enterprise Operations and the wider Enterprise Architecture function, shaping cross-cutting initiatives and complex transformation programmes spanning multiple domains. What You'll Do • Contribute to the development and maintenance of the overarching Enterprise Operations Architecture Strategy., • Support the creation and governance of reference architectures that guide technology decisions., • Collaborate with senior business and technology stakeholders to align architecture with strategic objectives., • Provide input into solution design and help ensure technology investments deliver maximum value., • Champion innovation and continuous improvement across a diverse and complex IT environment. • Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle., • 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 - giving details of key achievements for each role/job. Please also highlight your experience in line with the Essential Criteria listed in the advert, including details of the work and projects that you have been involved in., • 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., • 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