Chief Enterprise Architect
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 31 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £64,108 i £95,600 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Salary of £64,108 with potential for an additional allowance up to £31,492 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 418477/3 |
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Can you lead complex architecture with clarity while supporting and growing your team?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
The DVSA is building a dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to act as the bridge between the business and digital and data delivery. The Chief Enterprise Architect leads a team of Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver a strategically aligned architecture service, to deliver great customer outcomes and demonstrate business value. They will contribute to the development and delivery of new and evolving operating models, accountable for delivering enterprise-wide architecture capability to ensure the best and most cost-effective technology solutions are developed and deployed for DVSA’s services.
Operating effectively with multi-disciplinary teams of Digital & Data professionals, policy experts and service teams throughout the change lifecycle, the Chief Enterprise Architect will use business architecture to inform shape and define strategic business design. They will support design, building and delivering to meet user needs, understand business goals and be able to translate future needs into statements of capability.
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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Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Provide technical leadership in the development, operation, and continual improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.
Direct the development of enterprise-wide business design and information architecture, embedding the strategic application of technology into DVSA’s organisational management.
Develop and communicate the organisation’s enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring robust governance, audit, control, and compliance across DVSA’s technology landscape.
Lead the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring quality, documentation, and alignment with both internal and external customer requirements.
Oversee work delivered by external partners to ensure DVSA’s reference architecture is robust, scalable, open, secure, and delivers a high-quality user experience through effective system design and API integration.
Champion and manage an evolutionary architecture approach, communicating architectural direction across the Department for Transport family and wider government.
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 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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