Enterprise Architect
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £48,720 to £52,130 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 409986/1 |
Summary
Homeland Security Group’s (HSG) mission is to reduce homeland security risks to the UK’s people, prosperity and freedoms. This includes risks from terrorism, state threats, economic crime and cyber-crime. We provide systems leadership across government and deliver strategic initiatives, working closely with operational partners, the Intelligence Agencies and other external organisations to protect the UK.
You will join the Digital Communications Capabilities Unit (DCCU) whose mission is to develop, deliver and operate those national services that enable law enforcement and the intelligence community to investigate and prevent crime as well as counter terrorism through means set out in the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
DCCU coheres the delivery of operational services to drive access to, and value from, digital communications-related data to keep citizens safe and the country secure, now and in the future. The services and capabilities are delivered by a Partnership of organisations including Home Office, the National Crime Agency (NCA), UKIC, Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), Police Scotland, Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCU’s), CT Policing, HMRC, Police forces, and other Agencies.
Each of these Partners have design responsibility for elements of the large complex end-to-end system, and each have their own Design functions to set the design direction within each delivery area.
Within DCCU, the Design Assurance and Advisory Team (DAAT) has been established to ensure the design activities undertaken by the Partnership and wider community are cohered to meet end-to-end strategic objectives agreed by a Strategy Board.
Key responsibilities
- Analyse and shape business requirements, process, and problems, working with other workstreams to define technical architecture.
- Generate and maintain Enterprise Architecture and Systems Engineering (EA / SE) artefacts and roadmaps to support the implementation of the vision and strategy of the Partnership and identify opportunities for improvement and delivery at pace. This will include artefacts supporting ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states.
- Support development of an existing service architecture vision document. This needs to be at a level to support ongoing strategy development, the development of the future vision, development of SR bids, and provide updated reference for design reviews.
- Network and communicate with stakeholders across domains or enterprises.
- Build and maintain relationships with EA / SE representatives from Design Authority areas from across the range of Partnership and wider community Digital, Design and Technology’s (and equivalents).
- Promote architectural principles, policies and standards.
- Provide architecture materials to help guide the Partnership to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions.
- Provide the DAAT lead and EA / SE lead with the architecture details to support engagements with senior Governance Boards. E.g. demonstrating how proposals made to boards fit with the EA / SE strategy and vision and providing the implications of decisions on the end-to-end enterprise.
- Act as a trusted independent EA / SE advisor to the DAAT EA / SE lead.
The post holder will report to the DAAT Senior Enterprise Architect.
Travel
The successful candidate may be expected to travel to other work locations (within the UK) occasionally based on business need, this may include overnight stays. All related costs will be reimbursed in line with Home Office policy.
Working Pattern
This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 3 days / 22.2 hours per week due to business requirements.
Loan
This post is being offered on a loan basis to complete a finite piece of work.
Existing Civil Servants are eligible to apply on a loan basis or accredited Non Departmental Public Bodies on secondment.
Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. The terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes the potential recognition of promotion on return.
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