Person specification

Senior architecture and technology background

Demonstrable experience working in complex IT or digital environments, with the ability to operate at an enterprise-level, understand architectural trade-offs, and contribute to strategic technology decision-making across large-scale organisations.

Enterprise level perspective and customer focus

Ability to view services and solutions from a business and user perspective, ensuring that enterprise architecture direction enables effective, sustainable, and user-centred outcomes across internal or operational services.

Established Enterprise Architecture capability

Evidence of operating as an Enterprise Architect or in a closely related senior architecture role, with experience applying architecture principles, standards, and frameworks to shape direction, guide delivery, and influence decision-making.

Strong technical foundations

A strong technical background gained through formal qualification or equivalent professional experience, providing the credibility and understanding required to engage confidently with senior technical and business stakeholders.

Essential Criteria

• Senior Enterprise Architecture Contribution and Direction Demonstrable experience operating as a senior Enterprise Architect, responsible for contributing to architectural direction within a directorate or across the organisation, providing guidance, advice, and decision support to inform technology outcomes.

• Translating Business Priorities into Enterprise Architecture Strategy Proven ability to translate organisational, directorate, or programme priorities into clear enterprise-level architecture Strategy, including the definition of principles, standards, target states, and roadmaps aligned to wider enterprise and platform strategies.

• Architectural Governance and Assurance Strong experience working within an enterprise architecture governance model, ensuring that local architectural decisions, IT solutions, and designs are aligned with departmental and enterprise architecture strategies, standards, and platforms.

• Strategic Decision Making and Technology Evaluation Experience defining and evaluating architectural options, assessing technology choices, and setting clear strategic direction for initiatives, balancing benefits, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability.

• Senior Stakeholder Engagement, Communication, and Influence Demonstrable experience engaging and influencing senior business and technology stakeholders, including the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts, designs, and artefacts in clear, accessible, and non-technical language to enable understanding, resolve trade-offs, and support informed decision-making.

• Domain Experience in Internal/Enterprise Services Experience of architecting systems that support Enterprise Operation services such as workforce capability, learning, HR, finance, or operational support functions.

Desirable Criteria

• Professional Architecture Accreditation: Holding, or working towards, a recognised enterprise architecture or IT professional qualification (for example TOGAF, CITP, or equivalent).

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

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.

To find out more about HMRC benefits and find out what it's really like to work for HMRC hear from our insiders or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.

How To Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV to include your education, professional qualifications, and full employment history, giving details of key achievements for each role/job. Please also highlight your experience in line with the Essential Criteria listed in the advert, including details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
• A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, referring to the person specification & responsibilities of the role.
• 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.

Selection process details

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

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 closing date [insert date]'.

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.

Sponsorship

We have assessed this role against both Home Office and HMRC criteria and we are unable to offer sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. This means the vacancy is not open to applicants who require visa sponsorship.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers

This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the 'location preferences' section that you can travel to.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact
Name: Adam Hurlin
Email: adam.hurlin@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team
Email: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk