Enterprise Architect (Fixed Term Appointment)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 25 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £60,010 i £74,820 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | plus a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Dundee, Glasgow |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 3 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Scottish Government |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 3273 |
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Salary - £60,010 to £74,820 plus a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 35 hours per week
Closing Date - 18th March 2026 at 23:55
Reference - 3273
Employment Type - Fixed Term Appointment
Overview:
Are you looking to begin or grow a career in IT architecture? Or perhaps you are currently working as an architect and looking for a new challenge? Social Security Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team and drive our young and growing organisation further forward, developing strategies, improving its business processes and shaping the future of its technology, all making a positive impact on our clients’ lives.
This is a Fixed Term Appointment opportunity for 47 months with the possibility of permanency dependent on business requirements.
You may already be working as an analyst and looking to step up into a more senior design role, or you may be a technical architect with a desire to work on an enterprise-wide canvas. In any case you can expect to work with a friendly, dynamic, talented and self-motivated team with a great opportunity to apply your experience and ideas and make direct and tangible improvements to the services we deliver to our clients and colleagues.
The post will be based in either Dundee or Glasgow with regular travel to provide leadership across all sites as well as engage extensively with Scottish Government colleagues based in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
DDaT Pay Supplement:
This post is part of the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) profession and as a member of the profession you will join the professional development system. This post currently attracts a £5,000 annual DDAT pay supplement, applicable after a 3 months competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are reviewed regularly and there is one currently underway. Changes will be communicated when the review is concluded.
Main Duties:
Enterprise Architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery.
They are responsible for:
• Identifying change priorities to enable rapid delivery.
• Leading and influencing cross-cutting capability delivery for change.
• Owning the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and road-maps, covering current, future, and transitional states across business, technology and data.
• Facilitating collaboration across the organisation.
• Understanding the ecosystem and inter-dependencies, including reference architectures.
• Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios, and programmes.
• Guiding decisions on business, technology, and data to promote reuse, sustainability, and scalability, maximising value and reducing risk.
• Establishing architectural principles, policies, and standards.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure decisions align with EA strategy.
• Developing the architecture community.
• Conducting horizon scanning to identify industry trends and their potential organisational impact and opportunities.
Additional Duties
• Engage with projects and partners to understand scope and design appropriate enterprise architectures.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to provide direction and challenge, reaching consensus.
• Identify problems proactively and translate them into understandable non-technical descriptions.
• Act as the enterprise architecture expert in stakeholder engagement and scene setting.
• Support domain assurance functions aligned with governance principles and standards.
• Contribute to developing architecture strategies.
• Deeply understand Social Security Scotland’s business strategy to identify suitable solutions and road-maps.
• Analyse options thoroughly to recommend appropriate approaches across environments and organisational models.
• Act as a ‘critical friend’ to stakeholders on best practice technology use.
• Promote a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, guiding governance, digital, and organisational design.
• Produce and maintain enterprise architecture deliverables throughout the project life-cycle and beyond.
• Collaborate with cyber security colleagues to ensure architectures are robust, scalable and secure.
• Review external technical proposals and contribute to implementation recommendations.
• Work within agile, multi-disciplinary teams, applying agile methods where appropriate.
• Foster an open, collaborative approach to knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to the development of an enterprise practice within the wider Architecture team.
• Act as a communicator between technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders.
Location - Dundee or Glasgow
Hours - 35 hours per week
Closing Date - 18th March 2026 at 23:55
Reference - 3273
Employment Type - Fixed Term Appointment
Overview:
Are you looking to begin or grow a career in IT architecture? Or perhaps you are currently working as an architect and looking for a new challenge? Social Security Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team and drive our young and growing organisation further forward, developing strategies, improving its business processes and shaping the future of its technology, all making a positive impact on our clients’ lives.
This is a Fixed Term Appointment opportunity for 47 months with the possibility of permanency dependent on business requirements.
You may already be working as an analyst and looking to step up into a more senior design role, or you may be a technical architect with a desire to work on an enterprise-wide canvas. In any case you can expect to work with a friendly, dynamic, talented and self-motivated team with a great opportunity to apply your experience and ideas and make direct and tangible improvements to the services we deliver to our clients and colleagues.
The post will be based in either Dundee or Glasgow with regular travel to provide leadership across all sites as well as engage extensively with Scottish Government colleagues based in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
DDaT Pay Supplement:
This post is part of the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology (DDAT) profession and as a member of the profession you will join the professional development system. This post currently attracts a £5,000 annual DDAT pay supplement, applicable after a 3 months competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are reviewed regularly and there is one currently underway. Changes will be communicated when the review is concluded.
Main Duties:
Enterprise Architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery.
They are responsible for:
• Identifying change priorities to enable rapid delivery.
• Leading and influencing cross-cutting capability delivery for change.
• Owning the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and road-maps, covering current, future, and transitional states across business, technology and data.
• Facilitating collaboration across the organisation.
• Understanding the ecosystem and inter-dependencies, including reference architectures.
• Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios, and programmes.
• Guiding decisions on business, technology, and data to promote reuse, sustainability, and scalability, maximising value and reducing risk.
• Establishing architectural principles, policies, and standards.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure decisions align with EA strategy.
• Developing the architecture community.
• Conducting horizon scanning to identify industry trends and their potential organisational impact and opportunities.
Additional Duties
• Engage with projects and partners to understand scope and design appropriate enterprise architectures.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to provide direction and challenge, reaching consensus.
• Identify problems proactively and translate them into understandable non-technical descriptions.
• Act as the enterprise architecture expert in stakeholder engagement and scene setting.
• Support domain assurance functions aligned with governance principles and standards.
• Contribute to developing architecture strategies.
• Deeply understand Social Security Scotland’s business strategy to identify suitable solutions and road-maps.
• Analyse options thoroughly to recommend appropriate approaches across environments and organisational models.
• Act as a ‘critical friend’ to stakeholders on best practice technology use.
• Promote a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, guiding governance, digital, and organisational design.
• Produce and maintain enterprise architecture deliverables throughout the project life-cycle and beyond.
• Collaborate with cyber security colleagues to ensure architectures are robust, scalable and secure.
• Review external technical proposals and contribute to implementation recommendations.
• Work within agile, multi-disciplinary teams, applying agile methods where appropriate.
• Foster an open, collaborative approach to knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to the development of an enterprise practice within the wider Architecture team.
• Act as a communicator between technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders.