This is an exciting opportunity suited to someone who is proactive and thrives on working to tight timescales with changing priorities.

As a team member you will be accountable for IT impacting to ensure enterprise level business and IT change in HMRC is impacted strategically, consistently and in a data driven way through a number of lenses to ensure consequences of proposals are understood by stakeholders.

Working at a strategic level you will engage with a host of business and IT stakeholders and key partners, influencing policy, and set directions for technology and business change in line with HMRC 'Digital by Default' strategy.

You will champion the adoption of latest technologies, whilst transforming HMRC's large IT estate towards a smaller number of strategic platforms as well as operate as an internal consultant in IT infrastructure architecture, developing and driving adoption of HMRC's Enterprise Architecture vision, strategies, directions, and roadmaps.

Person specification

In This Role, You Will

• Act as a trusted ambassador for CDIO striving to make us a trusted IT partner to the wider department.
• Ensure your team delivers strategic outcomes through others and be accountable for the efficient production of briefings, early solution, policy, and fiscal event impacting to time and understand and consider dependencies of varying complexity, feeding into larger programmes and portfolios.
• Work in collaboration with solution, enterprise, and chief architects to produce cross cutting and enterprise level outputs.
• Collaborate with our Planning team and liaise with internal and external partners to manage and maintain the IT Strategy plan and develop and influence a culture of capability-based impacting across HMRC.
• Be responsible for understanding, managing, and communicating to complex stakeholder groups, balancing priorities.
• Impact in-flight Project scope changes that may affect the IT Strategy Plan are escalated appropriately dependent on the level of dependencies.
• Keep up to date with the wider digital economy and identify advances in technology, emerging trends and be able to understand and articulate how this could impact HMRC.
• Develop, document, and establish architectural principles, policies, standards and reference architectures.
• Provide architecture governance and technology decision making aligned to enterprise architecture directions.
• Keep up to date with the wider digital economy and identify advances in technology, emerging trends and how this could impact on the organisation.

Essential Criteria

You will need to demonstrate within your application the following Essential Criteria:

• A broad IT and Enterprise Architecture (EA) background, with experience in architecture enterprise scale IT or architecture roles where you will have gained experience of large-scale IT.
• Experience of driving, delivering, and assuring technological change against the background of organisational transformation.
• Experience of engaging at a strategic level and playing a key role in setting organisational objectives, influencing policy and leading on technical and business change.
• Demonstrable experience in developing Technical Capability within an organisation. Including empowering, supporting, and developing staff.
• Experience in articulating strategic approaches to the modernisation and rationalisation of complex legacy IT estates.
• Stakeholder Management - The ability to simplify complex and technical information for non-technical, often senior audiences.
• Being able to see the big picture - an overall perspective on business issues, events and activities, and an understanding of their wider implications and how this interrelates with the organisation's IT capability.
• Ability to work under broad direction in challenging and unpredictable environments, playing a key role in influencing strategic decision making and understand strategic consequences of decisions.
• Able to work effectively in pressurised situations and can be relied upon to deliver, irrespective of circumstances.
• Experience of working with policies and projects across the end-to-end design lifecycle.
• Experience of working in multi discipline change teams to produce measurable costed solution impacts.
• The ability to work across organisational boundaries to identify, clarify and resolve problems.
• Be a confident communicator with good interpersonal skills and a proven dedication to continuous improvement in self and others.

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding and experience of commercial contracts, procurement and sourcing strategies.
• TOGAF, AWS, Microsoft cloud certifications.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture tools such as Abacus, etc.
• Experience in driving Architecture Governance.
• Experience of working within a large and complex IT Estate.
• A passion for continuous improvement for yourself, your team and the processes you own

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office closures

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

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.

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.

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).

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member