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Job summary

Job title – Senior Enterprise Architect

Profession- Enterprise Architect

Directorate – Technology

Full Time equivalent - 37.5 hours

No of Roles – 2

Contract Type – Permanent

Location –Hybrid

UKHSA operates a hybrid working model where business needs allow.  This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata,(averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's locations (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).  Specialist or regional roles will be based at the appropriate UKHSA site. For certain roles, some additional flexibility may be possible, which will be agreed upon with the hiring manager based on individual requirements and business needs.

Working Pattern – Full Time /Hybrid Working/ Flexible Working

Grade & Salary – Grade 7 National banding - £51,824 - £61,414 Inner London -£55,799 - £65,089 Outer London - £53,812 - £63,252

This role has a Market Pay Supplement of up to £10,000

The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.

This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/.

Closing Date – 26/05/2024. 23:55pm. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered

Interview Date – W/C 03/06/2024 Please note, these dates are subject to change.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Senior Enterprise Architect who combines a deep understanding of technology with a passion for innovation in public health.

Your role will be pivotal in steering key technology initiatives that underpin emerging policy objectives and future health innovations.  You will be responsible for guiding delivery teams to meet strategic outcomes through the adoption of innovative solutions that align with our technical strategy and architecture vision.

Overview of Job

The successful candidate will respond and inform the rapidly changing and complex architectural needs of the UKHSA, providing shape and definition delivery. It is crucial that the Enterprise Architect can work with a variety of stakeholders and business analysts to uncover and succinctly document the architectural needs of the UKHSA, satisfying the current data platform requirements whilst helping to define the architectural vision for the future. The Enterprise Architect should be able to flex according to the transition stage of the organisation whereby our platforms, processes and ways of working are evolving, ensuring all architectural governance concerns are maintained throughout.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will be a collaborative force within the UKHSA, working in partnership with Business, DevOps teams and domain Architects to advance projects that reflect and fulfil the enterprise vision.  This role encompasses a broader scope of strategic activities, The Senior Enterprise Architect will offer project consultancy, shape governance activities, and capture best practices, patterns, guidance, and principles.  This position plays a critical role in supporting major change programs, ensuring that each initiative aligns with our overarching enterprise architecture and strategic objectives.

The Senior Enterprise Architect contribute to the evolution of a strategic framework that evolves from the existing technological and business advancements within the organization. The framework will encompass clear guiderails for future enhancements or additions with in-built flexibility to adapt to changing business needs. The development of architectural standards will enable more informed decision making and agile responses.

 We are looking for Senior Enterprise Architects to sit within the following channels:

1. Cloud Platform (knowledge of AWS or Azure),
2. Application rationalisation,
3. Integration patterns, or
4. Technology transformation.

 

Main Duties of the Job

• Strategic thinking: You will play a pivotal role in the development and execution of a comprehensive technology architecture strategy, guiding the creation and assessment of policies, roadmaps, and frameworks across various domains to assure alignment with overarching business objectives and requirements.
  
  
• EA governance: You will facilitate a robust enterprise architecture governance framework that ensures technology projects and initiatives are evaluated and aligned with the strategic objectives, providing oversight and direction to ensure compliance, consistency, and integration across the organization.
  
  
• Enterprise Architecture standards: You will develop and set architectural standards for the organisation, including tooling strategies and architectural guardrails. You will champion and communicate the business benefit those standards across the organisation including identifying overlaps, aligning resources with strategic objectives, and ensuring a cohesive and economically sustainable product ecosystem that meets both current and future business demands.

 

• Scientific Integration: Champion the development and integration of enterprise architecture solutions with laboratory and scientific environments, ensuring that systems and processes are optimally designed to support the critical work of researchers and public health scientists, facilitating advanced data analysis, research collaboration, and innovation in health security technologies.

 

• EA Modelling: Develop and maintain a comprehensive set of enterprise architecture models that accurately represent the UKHSA’s business, information, application, and technology architectures.

 

• Business Architecture: The candidate must possess expertise in Business Architecture, encapsulating the design of organisational structure, operational processes, and technology frameworks. The candidate should be capable of aligning every facet of the organization with its mission and objectives. The candidate will be responsible to ensure that the organisation's vision seamlessly connect with its concrete business operations and ensuring the business capabilities are aligned to technical capabilities.

 

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

• A hands-on track record in providing pragmatic architectural leadership and experience in developing and defining IT Strategy and Architecture, with this being successfully embedded into the enterprise
• A good communicator, comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and with the ability to work with architects from other disciplines and integrate their work to provide a joined-up picture of data across the enterprise
• Practical examples where you have you addressed complex architecture issues that need “EA style” thinking, for example, optimisation of cloud and examples of how you have applied the proportionate use of architectural assets and shown impact across the enterprise
• Certified in an architecture design methodology, for example TOGAF, Zachman.
• Hands-on experience with conducting architectural assessments and creating roadmaps, including technology debt assessments, cloud transition approaches, patterns for introduction of disruptive technologies into legacy estates and architectural governance
• Ability to deliver strategic thinking to stakeholders through roadmaps, mentoring and architectural thought leadership
• Ability to lead interviews and workshops to find a navigable architecture path with stakeholders that may have differing viewpoints, such as product design, architecture, DevOps and service management
• Hands-on experience in the delivery of emerging technologies and architectural trends, including:
• Delivery of platforms and the transition roadmaps to platform-based approaches
• Digital transformation enablement, by effectively bringing business, data and technology architecture viewpoints together
• Knowledge of Service Now would be advantageous.

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £51,824, UK Health Security Agency contributes £13,992 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Stage 1: Application & Sift

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

 

As part of the application process you will be asked to provide a Personal Statement / Statement of Suitability in no more than 1000 words. We will be assessing essential criteria at sift.

 

This should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the Experience criteria or the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section).

 

You will also be asked to provide information within the ‘Employer/ Activity history’ section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history. This will be used in the sifting process and will be scored.

 

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview

 

Stage 2: Panel Interview

All applicants that progress to interview will be assessed on behaviours / experience / technical / ability through Success Profiles.

When assessing strengths, we want to find out whether you and the job role are a good fit. We will look at what you enjoy doing and what you do well and often. By ensuring that the role is the right fit for you, you are more likely to enjoy it and perform well.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and influencing

You will also be tested on your broad experience of enterprise architecture

 

Reserve List:

Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.

If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.

 

 

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £51,824, UK Health Security Agency contributes £13,992 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- https://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/joining-the-pension-scheme/benefits-of-the-pension-scheme/
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Range of health and wellbeing support

 

Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare.

 

 

DBS - People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.

 

This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.

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 welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.

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Government baseline personnel security standard

It’s important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following:

• life sentences
• arson
• sexual offences
• hate and terror offences

Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role

 

Contact Details – Sophie.Rigney@reed.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.