Head of Architecture and Enterprise - IT Services - 34678 - Grade 9
United Kingdom
Job Description
IT Services
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full-time starting salary is normally in the range £56,921 to £65,814 with potential progression once in post to £85,544
Grade: 9
Full Time, Permanent
Closing date: 29th January 2025
Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do. The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high-quality subsidised day nurseries.
Are you ready to take on a key IT leadership role at one of the UK’s top universities? We are seeking a creative and innovative leader for our digital architecture team.
Role Summary
The Head of Architecture and Enterprise plays a key role in structuring the supporting the university in terms of its business, data, application, and technical architectures. This person aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services, partners and suppliers, organisation, capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives.
The underlying drivers are based around the University Strategic Framework and the Digital Strategy, supporting business operations, data governance and technical frameworks and related processes which link these aspects of the university together. The Head of Architecture and Enterprise will develop and maintain an integrated view of the university using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.
Main Duties
* Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap in alignment with the university's strategic plan. Support this with more detailed architecture analysis and solutions in each of the separate domain areas.
* Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with academic and administrative departments to understand their needs and ensure technology solutions support their goals.
* Technology Integration: Oversee the selection and integration of new technologies into the existing IT infrastructure, ensuring compatibility and efficiency.
* Efficiency: Ensure that the architecture factors in and delivers improved efficiency and effectiveness for business and IT areas.
* Compliance: Ensure that all IT systems and processes comply with relevant standards and policies.
* Innovation: Identify and evaluate emerging technologies that could benefit the university, and lead pilot projects to assess their feasibility.
* Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of the enterprise architecture, including system diagrams, data models, and process flows.
* Solution Design: Ensure that projects and services have suitable solution designs developed and maintained.
* Delivery: Support the IT projects and portfolio delivery function as needed where expertise or insight is needed when projects are being delivered.
* Security: Work closely with Information Security to ensure solutions are designed with security in mind.
* Management: Oversee and manage the work across the architecture function.
* Leadership: Provide guidance and mentorship to the architecture team and the wider IT staff, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Person Specification
Characteristics
* Confident, diligent, seeks ways to maximise benefits from any technological design choices.
* A solution orientated, big picture thinker, broadly aware of multiple technologies, capable of learning.
* Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities.
* Able to delegate, able to take a wide view.
* Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
Personal Skills and Capabilities
* Experienced architect, with background in developing technology architect solutions for systems, infrastructure, security and wider enterprises.
* Experienced in using and qualified in suitable architecture frameworks and qualifications e.g. TOGAF, CISSP etc.
* Broad, enterprise-wide understanding of Applications, Infrastructure, Project Management, Service Design and Governance.
* Understanding of organisational business systems, processes and their infrastructure needs.
* Ability to examine technologies and trends to identify the benefits the University can leverage from adopting those in the future in addition to the immediate usages.
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organisation.
* Demonstrable leadership and budget management experience.
View our staff values and behaviours here
Job Info
* Job Identification 6285
* Job Category Specialist/Professional
* Posting Date 01/08/2025, 04:09 PM
* Apply Before 01/29/2025, 11:59 PM
* Job Schedule Full time
* Locations Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TT, GB
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