About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our team at H M Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and play a key role in shaping our IT strategy and infrastructure.
* Lead Role in IT Strategy and Architecture
As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for defining and advising on platform capabilities, drawing roadmaps and reference architectures, and helping to govern against these directions.
You will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy and setting direction for technical and business change. This will ensure that HMRC develops and maintains a strong IT Architecture capability.
Key Responsibilities
* Defining our IT strategy and roadmaps for IT Infrastructure, aligning them with business strategies and capability requirements
* Supporting and contributing to solution designs as a specialist and representative of the strategic viewpoint
* Providing internal consultancy on potential uses and appropriateness of infrastructure technologies and driving benefits from these technologies
Essential Criteria
* A broad IT and Infrastructure background with experience preferably in infrastructure solutions or enterprise architecture roles
* Focused approach on strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction
* Proven experience of providing internal consultancy on potential uses and appropriateness of infrastructure technologies and driving benefits from these technologies
Desirable Criteria
* Either have or work to achieve professional IT certifications, such as TOGAF or CITP within the first 12 months of employment
* Experience of working in an agile environment and experience with agile methodologies such as TDD, Scrum, Kanban
About HMRC
At HMRC, we are committed to crafting a phenomenal place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to join us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC.
Diverse perspectives and experiences are essential to our success and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.
HMRC is building a modern, digital tax administration, and currently runs the biggest digital operation in Government. With 50 million customers to serve, over 60 thousand colleagues to support, and £700 billion to collect to fund UK Plc, our IT operation is huge.
About the Team
Our Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for setting the Technology Strategy, defining and advising on platform capabilities, drawing roadmaps and reference architectures as well as helping to govern against these directions.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a confident and experienced Architect to work within HMRCs Infrastructure domain, during a time of significant change and transformation, as we focus IT delivery away from legacy technologies and fully exploit the opportunities that cloud technologies provide.
Playing a lead role in crafting and evolving technology roadmaps that will drive the adoption of modern technology, whilst pushing HMRCs hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems.
Benefits
* £72,566 package which includes £56,344 salary and £16,322 towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
* Flexible hours, days and working with 3 days a week in the office
* 25 days holiday + access to upskilling courses
How to Apply