Senior Enterprise Architect

The MOD's digital teams ensure we remain among the most technologically advanced Armed Forces in the world. We develop and lead in cutting-edge data science, automation, and cyber security solutions to protect the UK and its interests, at home and abroad.

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This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

In this role, as Senior Enterprise Architect, we’re offering a great opportunity to develop within Enterprise architecture, using your previous experience in the architecture space. We’ll support your learning and development and build on your existing knowledge and skills.

You’ll work with civil servants and contractors across various levels, providing a key leadership role, translating business strategy into actionable change and technical delivery. You’ll support Lead Architects in shaping, aligning and driving the organisation's strategic direction, ensuring it is effectively developed, agreed upon and implemented.

You’ll help develop target architectures and templates for some of MOD’s most complex use cases and you’ll work with partners from across government departments and other nations, to develop end-to-end solutions to meet changing capability needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Enterprise level models, including as-is and target models.
• Network and communicate with stakeholders across domains, enterprises and government departments to develop the models.
• Identify influences or risks and provide mitigations to minimise impact.
• Use emerging technologies and approaches, horizon scanning to develop target architectures.
• Identify opportunities for improvement.
• Play an active part in the team and understand how to deliver the team’s objectives, to meet organisational goals.

Open to UK nationals only.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

To apply please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, ensuring it highlights your relevance to the essential criteria listed in the person specification.

Applications will be sifted using the CV, Personal statement and the behaviour listed below.

At Sift, you will be assessed against the following:

• CV with full job history, qualification details, previous skills and experience.
• Personal Statement: Describe how your experience is relevant for this role and how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification. Maximum 750 words.
• Behaviour: Communicating & Influencing. Maximum 250 words.

Interviews

We’ll assess you against these behaviours, technical skills & experience during the interview process:

Behaviours

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating & Influencing

Technical Skills:

• Architecture Communication
• Architect for the whole context
• Making architectural decisions
• Enterprise Architecture

The Government Digital and Data Framework and the Enterprise Architect role used in this vacancy can be found at: Enterprise architect - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.

Further Information:

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

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