Senior Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect (Data) - Bristol About the job
Job summary
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A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architecture and supports the Chief Data Architect. They will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for technical and business change. They play a key role in ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong Enterprise Data Architecture capability that meets business needs.
A Senior Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for defining our data strategy and roadmaps, aligning them with business strategies and requirements and obtaining senior stakeholder buy in. They drive the development of the Enterprise Data Model and data modelling capability of the HMRC. The role supports the documentation of the organisations data assets, to aid understanding, to allow more effective integration of data, whilst diminishing legacy data silos, enabling HMRC's hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems.
They will assure and contribute to data and solution designs both as a subject matter expert and from a strategic point of view against the Enterprise Data Architecture. They lead on the governance of data models produced by solution and delivery teams against the Enterprise Data Model and Data Standards.
Job description
Main Duties
A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architect and supports the Chief Data Architect. At this level, you will:
• Maintain, enhance and evolve the Enterprise Data Model ensuring alignment to business data needs now and into the future.
• Promote the use of data models and data architecture in designs, providing oversight and governance to project teams who are undertaking new initiatives.
• Provide oversight and advice to data architects who are undertaking the design of data models.
• Support the management of data dictionaries.
• Define, enhance, and promote data standards, ensuring Data Architects and projects are working to the standards.
• Work with solution and technical architects to make sure that the organisation's systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
You will need to demonstrate within your application the following essential criteria:
• Ability to guide the organisation to make the correct data decisions, promoting reuse and standardisation to achieve value for money.
• Experience in Data Modelling for operational and analytical systems, including conceptual models through to physical schema deployments.
• Experience in developing and governing Data Principles, Policies, Standards, Processes and Procedures.
• Experience in Master Data Management, Data Quality and Data Governance.
• The ability to simplify complex and technical information by using appropriate and accessible language for non-technical audiences.
• An understanding of how all parts of the business model work together including processes, data models and IT operating models.
• Capable of guiding the decision-making process, explaining trade-offs, and making a recommendation based on all the available information.
• The ability to look beyond the immediate problem and identify the wider implications across the enterprise.
Desirable Criteria:
The following skills and experience are desirable:
• Experience of developing data architecture capabilities for operational and analytical systems
• Experience with an Enterprise Data Catalogue and Business Glossary
• Experience of cloud data technologies, enterprise integration tools and Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) tools
• Understanding of the data lifecycle and implications for GDPR
• Either have or work to achieve professional IT qualifications such as TOGAF or CITP
• Experience of Enterprise Architecture modelling using ArchiMate and BPMN notations
• Experience of using Abacus and PowerDesigner
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be asked to give a technical presentation at interview. Details of this will be provided prior to interview.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £56,344, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,322 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.
How to Apply
As part of the application process applications must include a curriculum vitae including education, professional qualifications and full employment history, giving details of key achievements for each role/job.
When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed in the advert.
When giving details of your CV, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
Important information
Please attach your CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or word format no larger than 5MB.
Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
Please do not include any personal details in your document title.
If your CV contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Sift
A sift will be carried out on your CV, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
Interview
During the panel interview, you will be assessed against the essential technical skills and your experience.
You will be asked to give a technical presentation at interview. Details of this will be provided prior to interview.
Interviews will take place via video call.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days(Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake, please contact us via: - 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.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles - if this applies to you, we'll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Criminal Record Check
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Merit List
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment Team via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the "Assistance required" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need
further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Additional Security Information
Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.
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.
Terms and Conditions
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.
Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a 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).
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People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

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Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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