Ministry of Justice UK
Lead Enterprise Architect (Ref: 22037)
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Job Summary
This position is based Nationally
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to provide strategic architectural leadership across HMCTS. You will be working to a Principal Enterprise Architect, as part of the Digital Architecture, Strategy and Innovation function (DASI). As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you will help to shape the future direction of digital services, technology and organisational transformation across HMCTS.
Working across a diverse portfolio of programmes, products and services, you will provide strategic architectural leadership, ensuring that business, data, application, technology and security decisions align with organisational priorities and long-term objectives. You will work with senior leaders, delivery teams and architects to guide complex decision-making, provide governance and assurance, and help develop sustainable solutions that deliver lasting value.
You will be a trusted adviser, able to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences, influence senior stakeholders and help teams understand how their work contributes to wider organisational goals. You will play a key role in developing enterprise strategies, target architectures and roadmaps, while identifying opportunities for simplification, reuse and continuous improvement.
In This Role You Will:
- Provide enterprise architecture leadership, governance and assurance for significant, complex or high-risk business and technology initiatives.
- Develop and maintain enterprise architecture strategies, principles, standards, target architectures and roadmaps.
- Guide architectural decision-making across programmes, products and services, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy and long-term objectives.
- Identify strategic risks, dependencies and opportunities, advising senior stakeholders on appropriate actions.
- Drive adoption of common platforms, shared capabilities, reusable architectural patterns and strategic technology choices.
- Ensure architectural advice and assurance aligns with HMCTS, MoJ and wider government standards relating to security, privacy, accessibility, interoperability, service design and reuse.
- Provide architectural input to commercial and supplier decisions, including sourcing strategy, procurement, build-versus-buy assessment, whole-life value and vendor lock-in risk.
- Collaborate with business, technical, security, data and solution architects to ensure joined-up decision-making.
- Represent HMCTS in cross-government and Ministry of Justice architecture communities and forums.
- Build capability through mentoring, coaching and supporting the wider architecture profession.
Essential Skills
- Experience operating in an enterprise architecture or senior architecture leadership role within a complex organisation.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture across business, data, application, technology, security and operational domains.
- Experience in strategy design, including developing enterprise strategies, target architectures, architectural principles, standards and transformation roadmaps.
- Ability to frame complex problems, assess options and guide architectural decision-making across programmes, products and services.
- Strong architecture communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience providing governance, assurance and architectural oversight across complex or high-risk delivery portfolios.
- Understanding of commercial and supplier considerations, including sourcing options, procurement, whole-life value, interoperability, supportability and lock-in risk.
- Experience of applying modern enterprise architecture approaches, including cloud and platform strategy, integration, data, AI, automation, sustainability, reuse and common capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic direction with practical delivery constraints, user needs and organisational priorities.
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Person Specification
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
Compensation and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,511, HM Courts and Tribunals Service contributes £16,950 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- Access to learning and development
- A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
- A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Annual Leave
- Public Holidays
- Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ
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Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check. See our vetting charter.
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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
- 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
- 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
Further information on nationality requirements
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
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 for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
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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Contact Point for Applicants
Job Contact:
- Name: SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
- Email: moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
- Telephone: 0345 241 5359
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Further Information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/
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