HM Revenue & Customs
Enterprise Architect
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Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stratford, Telford, Worthing.
Please note that due to workforce controls, Croydon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Stratford are only available to existing HMRC staff in these locations. HMRC staff based in Reading and 100PS can also apply to move to Croydon or Stratford in line with Migration path.
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The Enterprise Architecture (EA) team is responsible for setting the Technology Strategy, platform capabilities, creating and maintaining roadmaps and reference architectures as well as helping to govern solutions against these strategies.
The EA team engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for both technical and business change, ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong IT Architecture capability.
An Enterprise Architect within HMRC operates at a strategic level to shape and steer enterprise-wide technology and digital outcomes in line with organisational priorities and architectural standards.
Job Description
Many of our colleagues work in specialist teams but with Cross Cutting aspects to their work, to one degree or another. The position advertised here is for assignment to a dedicated Cross Cutting team, collaborating with the other areas within the wider EA team.
Person specification
You Will
- Contribute to enterprise-wide strategy and roadmap development, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology capabilities, and cross-government architecture direction.
- Contribute to development and maintenance of enterprise architecture artefacts, including capability models, reference architectures, and strategic roadmaps across multiple domains (business, data, application, and technology).
- Provide architectural oversight and governance, ensuring that solution designs align with enterprise standards, principles, and HMRC strategic direction.
- Engage with portfolios, programmes, and delivery teams, influencing design decisions and providing strategic guidance to solution architects.
- Operate within governance forums, evaluating architectural designs, and ensuring informed decision-making based on enterprise impact.
- Assessing and triaging of incoming work (accept / reject / defer).
- Understand and articulate cross-domain dependencies, ensuring that architectural decisions consider wider organisational implications and long-term sustainability.
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders across HMRC and wider government, building consensus, influencing direction, and communicating complex architectural concepts clearly.
- Support continuous improvement of the enterprise architecture practice, contributing to standards, tooling, and ways of working.
- Undertake rapid, high-impact analysis and advisory work, including strategic briefings, research, and responses to emerging priorities.
Essential Criteria
Applicants must demonstrate:
- Strategy & Architecture Development Experience contributing to enterprise architecture strategy, roadmaps, or capability models, and developing As-Is, To-Be, and transition architectures across domains.
- Enterprise Architecture Governance Proven application of architectural principles, standards, and governance (including cost considerations), with the ability to assess solutions and provide recommendations based on enterprise impact, risk, alignment, and cost.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Influence Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, clearly presenting architectural decisions and trade-offs.
- Business & Technology Alignment Strong understanding of business capabilities, processes, and technology alignment to strategic outcomes, including identifying cross-domain dependencies and impacts.
- Communication & Decision-Making Ability to communicate complex architecture clearly to varied audiences and make informed decisions in ambiguous or time-pressured environments.
- Enterprise Context Experience operating in large-scale, complex IT environments with awareness of enterprise tooling, modelling approaches, and architecture repositories.
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Desirable Criteria
It would be advantageous if you have:
- Professional Architecture Practice Formal enterprise architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF) or working towards it.
- Cloud & Modern Technology Awareness Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and modern architectural patterns (APIs, microservices, data-driven architectures).
- Modelling & Tooling Experience with enterprise modelling standards and tools (e.g. ArchiMate, BPMN, repository tooling).
- Delivery & Ways of Working Experience working in Agile, product-centric environments and understanding architecture within iterative delivery.
- Government / Domain Knowledge Awareness of public sector digital standards, with experience in government environments and knowledge of HMRC business domains and architectures.
- Cost Awareness in Solution Design Experience developing or contributing to cost estimates for solution designs.
Capability Allowance
The advertised role is part of the Government Digital and Data Profession and has access to a Capability-Based Allowance. Any allowance awarded will be based on an assessment, at interview, of your capability against the skills advertised for this role. Please see the attached candidate pack for more information.
The allowance values are set by HMRC, subject to remaining in a qualifying role, and are non-pensionable. This allowance is non-contractual, subject to an annual review and could be withdrawn at any time.
For both new entrants and existing civil servants, the total reward compensation offer is a combination of base salary and, if applicable, a capability-based allowance. New entrants to the Civil Service will start on the pay range minimum. For existing civil servants, our policies on level transfer and promotion will apply.
For more information please visit the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (opens in a new window).
Office Closures
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window)
These Sites Are
- Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
- Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.
Leeds Locations
Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.
Salary and Benefits
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Alongside your salary of £45,544, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £13,194 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
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Selection process details
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history, previous skills and experience and full qualification details.
- A 500-word Personal Statement. Your personal statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the essential criteria and person specification outlined in the advert.
- Please evidence any Desirable Criteria where applicable (Up to 250 words max). This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy holder where candidates have the same score at interview.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on your CV.
At full sift your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
Interview
During the panel interview your experience will be assessed along with essential criteria from the personal specification to explore what you enjoy and your motivations relevant to the job role.
Candidates will also be asked to deliver a 5-10 minute presentation to assess the technical aspect of the role. Further details will be given prior to the interview.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy
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