Enterprise Architect – ID2023-6511

Dundee, Glasgow

Enterprise Architect , Hybrid Working with Glasgow or Dundee Base Location , £52355 – £65276 + £5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after 3 month qualifying period , Full or Part Time Hours , Flexi- time , 25 Days annual leave (increasing to 30 after 4 years’ service) plus 11.5 Public and Privilege , Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 5.45% employer contributions 27.1 – 27.9%),    

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 Chief Digital Office is the technology division of Social Security Scotland, responsible for live running, maintenance and continuous improvement of the technology required to operate the Scottish social security system for its clients and partners.

The Enterprise Architect role lies within the Architecture and Design branch of the Chief Digital Office. The branch is responsible for developing, maintaining and governing technology strategies and designs which underpin the solution, application, data and infrastructure architectures which form the organisation’s overall enterprise architecture. Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture teams work closely with each other and with the wider operational business to inform those strategies and designs. 

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.

DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5000 Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession you will join the professional development system, currently BCS RoleModelplus.  

• Engage with internal projects and partners to understand and identify their scope and needs, then design appropriate enterprise architectures.  
• Regularly collaborate and find agreement with senior stakeholders, providing direction and challenge.  
• Proactively identify problems and translate these into non-technical descriptions that can be widely understood.

Additional Duties 
• Act as the enterprise architecture domain expert in information gathering and scene setting with stakeholders and managers.  
• Support a domain assurance function in support of Social Security governance activities based on rigorously defined and tested principles and standards.  
• Contribute to the development of Social Security CDO Architectural strategies. 
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of Social Security Scotland’s business strategy, and leverage that understanding to identify suitable solution and technology options, and the roadmaps for their implementation. 
• Undertake rigorous analysis to develop an understanding of solution and technology options to recommend the most appropriate approach across different environments, operating models and organisational design.  
• Act as ‘critical friend’ to clients on best practice use of technology within an overarching Architecture Strategy.  
• Contribute to the establishment of an innovative culture of continuous delivery and improvement and provide guidance on Architectural Governance, Digital and Technology Strategy and Organisational Design. 
• Responsible for production of enterprise architecture deliverables across the project lifecycle and curation of those deliverables beyond implementation.  
• Collaborate with colleagues in cyber security  to ensure that architectures are robust, scalable, open and secure.  
• Review technical proposals from external suppliers and provide input into implementation recommendations.  
• Work in an agile, multi-disciplinary team environment and understand and apply agile methods with partners where appropriate.  
• Take an open and collaborative approach to working and sharing knowledge.  
• Support colleagues with enterprise architecture domain expertise where required. 
• Contribute to the iterative, value-driven development of an Enterprise Practice within the wider CDO Architecture team 
• Act as consultant to, and a communicator between, both technical and non-technical audiences and stakeholders. 

1. Knowledge and experience of enterprise architecture frameworks for managing design governance, strategic development and stakeholder communication. 
2. Experience in the identification and resolution of architecture concerns arising from the implementation of integrated, commodity based digital solutions and platforms into the business. 
3. Experience of participation in defining business strategies and aligning these with the supporting technology required to achieve them. 
4. Experience of both written and verbal communication of strategic roadmaps, architectural models and discussion documents to audiences at all levels and of all technical backgrounds.   

   

Annual Leave – You will receive 25 days annual leave on joining us. This will increase to 30 days after four full years of service. You will also have 11.5 public and privilege days of leave every year. We also offer Flexi-time. Any extra hours you’ve worked can be taken as leave when suitable.

A Civil Service Pension – This job comes with a Civil Service pension. New joiners to the Civil Service will join a career average pension scheme as standard. Read more here – www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.

Healthy work life balance -We can offer the possibility of full-time, part-time, term-time, and job shares. We also encourage flexible working.

Discounts – You can enjoy a vast range of retail, travel and lifestyle discounts through our benefit scheme.

Personal support for you – Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you confidential, independent information and guidance 24/7.

Volunteering special leave – Up to three days paid special leave a year for volunteering. We support our staff to help causes important to them.

Great locations – Our bright and modern offices in the heart of Dundee and Glasgow have been designed with staff in mind. Both locations are ideal for public transport.

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Job contact :

• Name : Philip Ainsworth
• Email : philip.ainsworth@socialsecurity.gov.scot
• Telephone : 08001577194

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot