JOB SUMMARY

Are you looking to begin or grow a career in IT architecture? Or perhaps you are currently working as an architect and looking for a new challenge? Social Security Scotland has an exciting opportunity for an Enterprise Architect to join the team and drive our young and growing organisation further forward, developing strategies, improving its business processes and shaping the future of its technology, all making a positive impact on our clients’ lives.
You may already be working as an analyst and looking to step up into a more senior design role, or you may be a technical architect with a desire to work on an enterprise-wide canvas. In any case you can expect to work with a friendly, dynamic, talented and self-motivated team with a great opportunity to apply your experience and ideas and make direct and tangible improvements to the services we deliver to our clients and colleagues.
The post will be based in either Dundee or Glasgow with regular travel to provide leadership across all sites as well as engage extensively with Scottish Government colleagues based in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

1. Enterprise architecture frameworks for managing design governance, strategic development and stakeholder communication.
2. Defining aligned business and technology strategies by means of developing and maintaining technology roadmaps and architectural models.

TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

This role is aligned to Senior Enterprise Architect job role level within the Digital, Data and Technology Profession.
These skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will be not be assessed at application stage. Please review the following to understand the skill expectations: Enterprise architect - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework

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 (EUSS)
• 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 (EUSS)
• 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

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage with projects and partners to understand scope and design appropriate enterprise architectures
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to provide direction and challenge, reaching consensus
• Identify problems proactively and translate them into understandable non-technical descriptions
• Act as the enterprise architecture expert in stakeholder engagement and scene setting
• Support domain assurance functions aligned with governance principles and standards
• Contribute to developing architecture strategies
• Deeply understand Social Security Scotland’s business strategy to identify suitable solutions and roadmaps
• Analyse options thoroughly to recommend appropriate approaches across environments and organisational models
• Act as a ‘critical friend’ to stakeholders on best practice technology use within the Architecture Strategy
• Promote a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, guiding governance, digital, and organisational design
• Produce and maintain enterprise architecture deliverables throughout the project lifecycle and beyond
• Collaborate with cyber security colleagues to ensure architectures are robust, scalable, and secure
• Review external technical proposals and contribute to implementation recommendations
• Work within agile, multi-disciplinary teams, applying agile methods where appropriate
• Foster an open, collaborative approach to knowledge sharing
• Contribute to the development of an enterprise practice within the wider CDO Architecture team
• Act as a communicator between technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders