Chief Enterprise Architect

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Oldham, Swansea (Hybrid)

Salary: £64,108 - £95,600 - Salary of £64,108 with potential for an additional allowance up to £31,492

Contract Type: Permanent - Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

The DVSA is building a dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to act as the bridge between the business and digital and data delivery. The Chief Enterprise Architect leads a team of Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver a strategically aligned architecture service, to deliver great customer outcomes and demonstrate business value. They will contribute to the development and delivery of new and evolving operating models, accountable for delivering enterprise-wide architecture capability to ensure the best and most cost-effective technology solutions are developed and deployed for DVSA’s services.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide technical leadership in the development, operation, and continual improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.
• Direct the development of enterprise-wide business design and information architecture, embedding the strategic application of technology into DVSA’s organisational management.
• Develop and communicate the organisation’s enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring robust governance, audit, control, and compliance across DVSA’s technology landscape.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.

• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).

• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.

• Access to the staff discount portal.

• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.

• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.

• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• A strong track record in providing hands-on, pragmatic architectural leadership across a geographically dispersed, multi-service, and technologically diverse environment—working with both internal teams and external service providers.
• Considerable experience in developing and defining strategic target business architecture to support improved organisational outcomes, strategic decision-making, architectural governance, and optimal business design.
• An excellent applied knowledge of modern technical architectures, cloud technology, IT infrastructure, data management, and software development lifecycle management—ideally with experience in enterprise systems such as CRM, compliance, and automation platforms.
• Considerable experience of driving and delivering technological change at pace within a context of organisational transformation, operating across functional and organisational boundaries with shifting priorities.
• Demonstrable experience in developing technical capability within an organisation, including empowering, supporting, and developing staff to achieve high performance.
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, and negotiation skills to provide effective technical and professional leadership to the wider architecture and technology community.