14266 - Principal Enterprise Architect
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £71,381 i £85,257 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | The national salary range is £71,381 - £80,419, London salary range is £75,674 - £85,257. Your salary will be dependent on your base location London: £75,674 - £93,025 (may include an allowance of up to £17,351) National: £71,381 - £88,900 (may include an allowance of up to £17,519) |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | UK |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 3 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 14266 |
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Principal Enterprise Architect
Location: National*
Closing Date: 16th February
Interviews: after the 4th of March
Grade: 6
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary (for more information, please refer to the T&Cs at the bottom):
London: £75,674 - £93,025 (may include an allowance of up to £17,351)
National: £71,381 - £88,900 (may include an allowance of up to £17,519)
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Perm
Vacancy number: 14266
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Principal Enterprise Architect here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative team. This role sits within the Office of the CTO within the Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for architecture and engineering across the MoJ and owns the newly commissioned Technical Design Authority for the department. We work in collaboration with individual business units and Arm’s Length Bodies to align technology and operate platforms for the benefit of the products and teams dependent upon them.
We’re establishing a dedicated Enterprise Architecture function to support the Ministry of Justice’s growing and evolving needs – enabling delivery of strategic and transformational priorities, including major reform programmes such as the independent sentencing review recommendations. This is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape the department’s architecture from the ground up, leading an end-to-end journey from strategic intent through to delivery and implementation.
As our first permanent Principal Enterprise Architect, you’ll establish and lead the Enterprise Architecture profession, defining how business, application, data, and technology architectures align to support outcomes across prisons, courts, probation, and wider justice services. Reporting to the Chief Architect, you’ll work in close partnership with senior leaders, Principal Architects and Digital teams across multiple portfolios, ensuring our architectural foundations are coherent, interoperable, and future-ready.
You’ll set direction and standards, provide strategic architectural leadership for complex, cross-cutting initiatives, and help the department make informed investment and design decisions. You will build and lead a high-performing team of enterprise architects, work closely with delivery teams, product leaders, and technical specialists, and shape how architecture is practiced, governed, and assured across the Ministry of Justice.
This role aligns against the Principal enterprise architect role from the Government Digital and Data Framework
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities
You will:
• Establish and lead the Enterprise Architecture function for the Ministry of Justice, setting a clear vision, operating model, and ways of working.
• Champion Enterprise Architecture as a key enabler of transformation, value for money, and long-term sustainability.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in senior governance, legal and commercial conversations.
• Translate departmental strategy, policy intent, and reform priorities into coherent Enterprise Architecture roadmaps.
• Support strategic investment decisions by assessing architectural options, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies.
• Identify and address cross-cutting design risks and remove strategic blockers.
• Define, own, and evolve Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Coach and support architects and senior stakeholders to make good design choices.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Location: National*
Closing Date: 16th February
Interviews: after the 4th of March
Grade: 6
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary (for more information, please refer to the T&Cs at the bottom):
London: £75,674 - £93,025 (may include an allowance of up to £17,351)
National: £71,381 - £88,900 (may include an allowance of up to £17,519)
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Perm
Vacancy number: 14266
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Principal Enterprise Architect here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative team. This role sits within the Office of the CTO within the Ministry of Justice, which is responsible for architecture and engineering across the MoJ and owns the newly commissioned Technical Design Authority for the department. We work in collaboration with individual business units and Arm’s Length Bodies to align technology and operate platforms for the benefit of the products and teams dependent upon them.
We’re establishing a dedicated Enterprise Architecture function to support the Ministry of Justice’s growing and evolving needs – enabling delivery of strategic and transformational priorities, including major reform programmes such as the independent sentencing review recommendations. This is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape the department’s architecture from the ground up, leading an end-to-end journey from strategic intent through to delivery and implementation.
As our first permanent Principal Enterprise Architect, you’ll establish and lead the Enterprise Architecture profession, defining how business, application, data, and technology architectures align to support outcomes across prisons, courts, probation, and wider justice services. Reporting to the Chief Architect, you’ll work in close partnership with senior leaders, Principal Architects and Digital teams across multiple portfolios, ensuring our architectural foundations are coherent, interoperable, and future-ready.
You’ll set direction and standards, provide strategic architectural leadership for complex, cross-cutting initiatives, and help the department make informed investment and design decisions. You will build and lead a high-performing team of enterprise architects, work closely with delivery teams, product leaders, and technical specialists, and shape how architecture is practiced, governed, and assured across the Ministry of Justice.
This role aligns against the Principal enterprise architect role from the Government Digital and Data Framework
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities
You will:
• Establish and lead the Enterprise Architecture function for the Ministry of Justice, setting a clear vision, operating model, and ways of working.
• Champion Enterprise Architecture as a key enabler of transformation, value for money, and long-term sustainability.
• Represent Enterprise Architecture in senior governance, legal and commercial conversations.
• Translate departmental strategy, policy intent, and reform priorities into coherent Enterprise Architecture roadmaps.
• Support strategic investment decisions by assessing architectural options, trade-offs, risks, and dependencies.
• Identify and address cross-cutting design risks and remove strategic blockers.
• Define, own, and evolve Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Coach and support architects and senior stakeholders to make good design choices.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!