About the job

Job summary

Our Deputy Director, Enterprise Architecture is the Head of the Technical Architecture profession. They work with the Technical Architects across the MoJ agencies to deliver cross MoJ technology governance, standards, architecture patterns and roadmaps.

The Deputy Director, Enterprise Architecture works within the Chief Technology Office, and plays a pivotal role in shaping and overseeing the technical components and frameworks that support all digital services. This position is at the heart of ensuring that our technical approaches are seamlessly integrated with and aligned to our business processes throughout the entire MoJ. It involves setting the standards and principles, as well as making key decisions that shape the MoJ’s future direction.

They own the overall technology governance including the Technical Design Authority, architecture forums and solution surgeries. Creating roadmaps and engaging across the agencies and wider Government to communicate technology and best practice. They act as the escalation point for technology issues with the goal of reducing duplication, risks and costs for the MoJ.

The Deputy Director, Enterprise Architecture provides mentoring within teams and provides peer support to other architects.

They have a good understanding of a broad range of technologies. They understand the business processes and how these map to technology solutions. They are able to converse easily with and translate between non-technical stakeholders and technical practitioners.

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Person specification

• Acting as Head of Profession for Technical Architects and providing leadership for Enterprise Architecture.
• Creating and holding ownership of an overall strategic reference architecture, value chains, shared common component approach and roadmap.
• Running of technology governance, assuring technical solutions.
• Addressing legacy systems and technical debt to reduce costs and complexity.
• Ownership of the common technical artefacts, principles, standards and patterns.
• Supporting creation of business cases for technology initiatives which will have a direct impact on budgets, costs and timescales.
• Owning the technology risk register, ensuring that mitigations are in place to reduce risks.
• Acting as advisor, escalation point and authority on technology.
• Ownership of the overall architecture roadmaps.
• Working with other Architects to encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Engaging across the MoJ and government to share best practice.
• Guiding and influencing technical choices and seeking out opportunities for digital transformation.
• Assuring services and system quality, ensuring the technical work fits into the broader strategy, standards and principles for the MoJ, and
• Supporting the recruitment process, including taking part in recruitment for both Technical Architects and other professions such as Software Developers.

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Please view our candidate information pack for full details about the role, key responsibilities person specification, and the criteria you will be assessed against throughout the recruitment process. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, and feel that you meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £20,925 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.