Chief Architect (£69,501 – £98,061)

Posting date:	06 May 2026
Salary:	£69,501 per year
Additional salary information:	Plus an additional Government Digital and Data Profession allowance up to £28,560. Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000.
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	24 May 2026
Location:	Nottingham
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	458929/6

Summary

The DVSA is building a dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to act as the bridge between the business and digital operations. Chief Enterprise Architect leads a team of Lead Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver an excellent 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, using business architecture to inform shape and define strategic business design. The Chief Enterprise Architect 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:

To provide technical leadership, in the development, operation and ongoing improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.Accountable for the development and communication of the organisation’s enterprise architecture strategy, plans and governance to ensure that effective controls are in place for internal delegation, audit, control, and compliance. Appropriate committees and boards receive timely reports and advice that will inform their decisions.Work collaboratively with senior management and cross functional experts within DVSA, creating or reviewing the target architecture to support the strategic requirements of the business.

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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