Senior Enterprise Architect

Main Duties of the Job

• Strategic thinking: You will play a pivotal role in the development and execution of a comprehensive technology architecture strategy, guiding the creation and assessment of policies, roadmaps, and frameworks across various domains to assure alignment with overarching business objectives and requirements.
  
• EA governance: You will facilitate a robust enterprise architecture governance framework that ensures technology projects and initiatives are evaluated and aligned with the strategic objectives, providing oversight and direction to ensure compliance, consistency, and integration across the organization.
  
• Enterprise Architecture standards: You will develop and set architectural standards for the organisation, including tooling strategies and architectural guardrails. You will champion and communicate the business benefit those standards across the organisation including identifying overlaps, aligning resources with strategic objectives, and ensuring a cohesive and economically sustainable product ecosystem that meets both current and future business demands.

• Scientific Integration: Champion the development and integration of enterprise architecture solutions with laboratory and scientific environments, ensuring that systems and processes are optimally designed to support the critical work of researchers and public health scientists, facilitating advanced data analysis, research collaboration, and innovation in health security technologies.

• EA Modelling: Develop and maintain a comprehensive set of enterprise architecture models that accurately represent the UKHSA’s business, information, application, and technology architectures.

• Business Architecture: The candidate must possess expertise in Business Architecture, encapsulating the design of organisational structure, operational processes, and technology frameworks. The candidate should be capable of aligning every facet of the organization with its mission and objectives. The candidate will be responsible to ensure that the organisation's vision seamlessly connect with its concrete business operations and ensuring the business capabilities are aligned to technical capabilities.

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

Essential Criteria:

• A hands-on track record in providing pragmatic architectural leadership and experience in developing and defining IT Strategy and Architecture, with this being successfully embedded into the enterprise
• A good communicator, comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and with the ability to work with architects from other disciplines and integrate their work to provide a joined-up picture of data across the enterprise
• Practical examples where you have you addressed complex architecture issues that need "EA style" thinking, for example, optimisation of cloud and examples of how you have applied the proportionate use of architectural assets and shown impact across the enterprise
• Certified in an architecture design methodology, for example TOGAF, Zachman.
• Hands-on experience with conducting architectural assessments and creating roadmaps, including technology debt assessments, cloud transition approaches, patterns for introduction of disruptive technologies into legacy estates and architectural governance
• Ability to deliver strategic thinking to stakeholders through roadmaps, mentoring and architectural thought leadership
• Ability to lead interviews and workshops to find a navigable architecture path with stakeholders that may have differing viewpoints, such as product design, architecture, DevOps and service management
• Hands-on experience in the delivery of emerging technologies and architectural trends, including:
• Delivery of platforms and the transition roadmaps to platform-based approaches
• Digital transformation enablement, by effectively bringing business, data and technology architecture viewpoints together
• Knowledge of Service Now would be advantageous.

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