About the job

Job summary

Do you have experience in driving the creation of reusable enterprise application services, and their adoption and exploitation across a large organisation?

Are you a recognised expert and advisor in driving technology strategy?

If this sounds like you then why not apply?

Enterprise Architects are technology strategists that are responsible for digital transformation across a large complex environment.

They understand the DWP ecosystems and can partner with executives to drive technology strategies that integrate with the business strategy.

They work across many streams to keep work aligned with the technology strategy.

An Enterprise Architect can contextualise the latest emerging thinking within DWP. As a leader, the Enterprise Architect helps to grow the next DWP technical leaders.

Job description

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be:

• Responsible for driving the creation of reusable enterprise application services and their adoption and exploitation across DWP policy areas, to create more joined up citizen and agent services and maximise business efficiency.

• A recognised expert and advisor in driving technology strategy and working across lines of business and shared platforms to ensure work is aligned to our enterprise vision and that business outcomes are achieved.

• A key player in the development, identification, and future planning of the enterprise architecture of the DWP. You are part of a team that drives and builds our Architecture practice by providing leadership to a large multi-disciplinary organisation.

Responsibilities

Your roles and responsibilities for this role include, but are not restricted to the following:

• Support the Digital Executive Team in maintaining a strategic enterprise architecture and supporting business case, that continues to meet the DWPs business objectives as they change over time.

• Work closely with the Service Design & Business Architecture leadership to maintain alignment of the enterprise architecture vision with the service design vision & target business architecture.

• Lead on the definition of, and changes to, the enterprise architecture principles, vision, & strategy; securing formal approval for the same at the Digital Design Authority.

• Work with Solution and Domain architects to maintain technology roadmaps that align to the enterprise architecture principles, vision, and strategy.

• Support the Head of Enterprise Architecture in clearly promoting the vision, goals and strategy of enterprise architecture outside of the architectural community in non-technical terms.

• Participate in the strategic governance of projects and programmes; including where necessary challenging decisions that compromise the architecture vision, or approving needed exceptions, and in either case providing clear advice and decisions.

• Participate personally in leading aspects of the development of the Architecture practice, through communicating and encouraging wider feedback and collaboration in the evolution & communication of the enterprise architecture vision, key principles, best practices, and reference architectures.

• Represent DWP Enterprise Architecture across wider government to drive government wide architecture best practice.

Person specification

When writing your CV, you must demonstrate experience of:

• Making strategic recommendations at CIO level, influencing Director level stakeholders in a large-scale corporate environment, building business cases for multi-million-pound investments and associated transformation roadmap planning.

• Architecture Design and modelling techniques, tools, and standards.

• Shaping and supporting technology initiatives, projects, programmes, and portfolios.

• Governance activities to enable effective management and decision making.

• Presenting to large technical audiences, and IT/Finance governance boards.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact isaac.morrison@dwp.gov.uk.

Benefits

• An employer pension contribution of up to 27% For further information please click here.
• Annual leave rising up to 30 days, (based on your working pattern).
• Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
• Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring. 
• An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Salary Information

Pay for this role is from £69,869 to £89,995.

Where the maximum salary of £77,740 is offered, a Digital Allowance of up to £12,255 per annum is available for exceptional candidates, based on our assessment of your skills and experience.

Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary.

Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the next grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

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

Stage 1: Application

Applications must include:

1. A completed Personal Details application form.

2. A curriculum vitae including education, professional qualifications and full employment history, giving details of key achievements. 

When writing your redacted CV, you must demonstrate experience in line with Essential Criteria listed in the Person Specification.

When giving details of your redacted CV, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.

For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit our blog Getting Hired at DWP Digital .

Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign. 

Important information

• Please attach your redacted CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or word format.
• If your CV contains any personal details your application may be withdrawn.

Stage 2: Interview

If you’re successful at sift stage, you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams where you will be assessed against the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the advert. 

Candidates will be asked to do a short (10 minutes maximum) presentation on how you have aligned a large organisation’s business and technical architectures to drive an enterprise vision, making clear the architecture decisions they personally made. To be submitted 2 days before interview.

Interviews will take place in Mid-January. Interview dates to be confirmed.

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.

Further information:

A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.

Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location.

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Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing.

Reasonable Adjustment

At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.

We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit page

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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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Working for 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.