Lead Enterprise Architect (£54,857 - £80,400)
| Posting date: | 24 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,857 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Government Digital and Data Profession Allowance - additional allowance up to £25,543 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 417501/4 |
Summary
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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- Provide enterprise solutions to specific business problems and challenges across one or more Enterprise Architecture domains.
- Assist with requests of new Digital Transformation work and support in the building of business cases.
- Responsible for the design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of solutions that meet current and future business needs, encompassing changes to service, process, organisation and operating models.
- Assess how trends in society and industry practices might impact the organisation.
- Work with people outside of your organisation to inform to inform policies, strategies and standards.
- Anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architecture work.
- Coach others in identifying important trends.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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