Lead Enterprise Architect (Ref: 22037)

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:

Your role as Lead Enterprise Architect will encompass several key responsibilities listed below (but not limited to):

• 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.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

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

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. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• 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

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

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 (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete