Defence Digital

**Details**:
**Reference number**:
191064

**Salary**:
£63,500

**Grade**:
Grade 6

**Contract type**:
Permanent

**Business area**:
MOD - Strategic Command

**Type of role**:
Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of posts**:
1

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Location

Corsham, South West (region), SN13 9GB

About the job

**Summary**:
We provide digital and technology services to our Armed Forces, ensuring they can operate securely via radio, satellite, and the internet. Operating at scale, with an annual budget in excess of £2Bn and a diverse team of 2,500 colleagues, we're aiming to make our Armed Forces some of the most technologically advanced in the world. To do that we're growing our capabilities in disciplines like data science, automation and cyber security. If you can see yourself contributing to the world of Defence digital and technology, the next chapter of your career may be with us.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
On behalf of the Head of Architecture, leading determination, and implementation of best practice architectures for Workplace Services, End User Services and Hosting Services across Defence.

The successful applicant will set the technology direction, target architecture, roadmaps, technical policies and standards to drive coherence in these areas across Defence for all security classification. They will also ensure these are coherent with other areas of the enterprise architecture including realising Defence’s strategic goals.

This role requires experience of setting the Technical Strategy and Target Architecture for Workplace Services, End User Services and Hosting Services in a very large corporate environment with over 200,000 users. This will include workplace productivity, collaboration, Documents and Records Management technologies, communication services, instant and formal messaging, Voice and Video, Power automation tools and workflow. End-user service will cover the full delivery and management of Laptops, Tablets and Mobile devices including Windows, Apple and Android formats. Exploiting public and private cloud services incorporating existing hosting requirements which will form up a Hybrid ecosystem.

**Responsibilities**:
The Defence Digital Enterprise Architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and Digital and IT technical delivery. They are responsible for:

- Identifying priorities for change to enable Digital delivery at pace across Defence.
- Leading and influencing the delivery of technologies enabling cross-cutting capabilities that enable change
- Ownership of enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including ‘as-is’, ‘to-be’ and transitional states. Consulting and facilitating collaboration across the business
- Understanding the organisation’s ecosystem and its inter-dependencies, including reference architectures
- Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes
- Guiding the organisation to make the appropriate business, technology and data decisions, by promoting reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk
- Establishing architectural principles, policies, patterns and standards.
- Collaborating and consulting with stakeholders across MOD, Government and Partners to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with EA strategy
- Developing the architecture community
- Carrying out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation

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

- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Experience of setting technical strategy for the core technologies in Hosting, End User Services and Workplace
- SFIA STPL Level 6

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension
- Further information can be found in the Benefits Leaflet attached

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Please note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

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