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Lead Enterprise Architect
Компания: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.
Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.
Please note: for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027.
For candidates requesting to work in Sheffield King’s Court, please note these roles will initially be based at King’s Court and then move to 1 West Bar by early 2028.
**Job Summary**
Do you have strong technical Data design knowledge and experience?
Do you want to develop blueprints, reference architectures and design patterns for data?
Do you want to be part of a small core team of architects ensuring conformance of DWP’s digital transformation to agreed architecture policies, principles and patterns?
Do you see multiple architects struggling with the same issues or working in silos and think ‘I could help make this better’?
Are you good at engaging with senior influential architecture and product stakeholders?
Do you want an opportunity to explore all the above to see if it’s a good match for you?
If so, we have an opportunity as a Lead Enterprise Architect with a deep skills, knowledge and experience of enterprise-wide data and data architecture. You will share your Data domain knowledge and experience to drive IT and data strategy, including definition of the tools and techniques most appropriate for the environment.
The Architecture Strategy team is actively supporting a range of high‑profile, strategic change initiatives across the Department, ensuring they are guided, shaped and aligned to deliver the best possible business outcomes.
The role provides the opportunity to work closely with key stakeholders across the transformation landscape, providing insight, challenge and strategic direction.
This is a unique opportunity to influence major programmes and play a pivotal role in defining the future enterprise architecture for DWP.
This is an exciting time to join us. You’ll shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional products and services that work for everyone.
**Job Description**
This Lead Enterprise Architect role leads at the highest level and is responsible for ensuring the strategy is developed, agreed and followed.
**At This Role Level, You Will:**
* Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across domains or enterprises and actively seek opportunities for improvement.
* Support multiple communities and teams.
* Find and use best practice.
* Find and use emerging technologies and approaches.
* Inspire other enterprise architects and help them understand how to meet organisational goals.
* Horizon scan for external influences or risks.
* Support successful delivery of the long-term strategy.
* Be responsible for the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.
This Lead Enterprise Architect role leads at the highest level and is responsible for ensuring the strategy is developed, agreed and followed.
**At This Role Level, You Will:**
* Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across domains or enterprises and actively seek opportunities for improvement.
* Support multiple communities and teams.
* Find and use best practice.
* Find and use emerging technologies and approaches.
* Inspire other enterprise architects and help them understand how to meet organisational goals.
* Horizon scan for external influences or risks.
* Support successful delivery of the long-term strategy.
* Be responsible for the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.
Person specification
When Giving Details In Your Employment History And Personal Statement You Should Highlight Your Extensive Experience In Line With Essential Criteria Below:
* Leading the enterprise scale architecture and design of business-critical IT projects/services in a large, high volume and complex organisation. Includes evidence of responsibility for architecting 'eco-systems' of products as well as individual products. Advising on high impact technology choices and product selections.
* Presenting to large and varied technical and non-technical audiences both within the organisation, across government and externally.
* Leading on architectural governance activities to enable effective management and architectural decision making.
* Experience of developing reference architectures including architectural principals, patterns, standards and guidance and communicating this to an audience of peers.
* Using architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards to clearly communicate concrete architectures and reference patterns.
* Experience of data modelling, database schema design, normalization, indexing, partitioning, sharding, replication, data quality assessment and data lifecycle management.
* Experience of selecting and using database technologies, including relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DocumentDB, Cassandra, Couchbase) and other database type (Graph, Ledger, Vector).
* Experience of different data transfer and transformation Extract, Transform, Load (ETL, ELT) tools and processes (e.g., AWS Glue, Informatica, Talend, Apache NiFi) in modern data platforms.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact .
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Changing and Improving
* Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Architecture communication (Expert)
* Architect for the whole context – (Expert)
* Enterprise Architecture – (Expert)
* Making architectural decisions – (Expert)
* Strategy design – (Practitioner)
* Problem definition and shaping – (Expert)
Alongside your salary of £76,339, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £22,115 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
* Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
* Generous annual leave – at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
* Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
* Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
* Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
* Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
* An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
**Hybrid Working**
This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.
If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from