Enterprise Architect
Salary: £71,889 to £80,079 comprising a basic salary of £68,745 and a concessionary payment of £3,144. The exact salary offered within this range will depend on your skills and experience. An additional Skills Payment is available once your skills level is confirmed, £3,822 for Level 1 or £8,190 for Level 2. Once in role, there may also be opportunities to qualify for further allowances and additional skills-related payments.
Flexible working: We recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance and offer a range of working patterns, including full-time, part-time, and compressed hours. While most of our work is carried out on-site due to its sensitive nature, occasional homeworking may be possible depending on business requirements. We also support flexible start and finish times to help you manage your personal and professional commitments.
Find out more about flexible working on our website .
GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working with our intelligence partners, we protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks and espionage. At GCHQ, you ll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
As an Enterprise Architect, you ll lead and support fellow Architects in shaping, and embedding GCHQ s enterprise architecture. Working within a specialist team, you ll help deliver the technology that underpins some of the UK s most critical national security work, giving you the chance to work on unique challenges and have an impact in an environment unlike any other.
With responsibility for one or more departments, you ll work on a complex portfolio of solutions, designing and maintaining artifacts while balancing organisational priorities with practical delivery. You ll work with senior colleagues to ensure alignment with our long-term strategic goals, user needs, and industry best practice. Once you re established in the role, you ll also take on line- management responsibilities for a small team, using your experience to support their work and career development.
You ll have practical experience of working as an Enterprise Architect, including leading teams or line managing others. We re interested in your support for our shared mission, the practical experience you ve gained in the field and how you ve contributed to architectural work across technology, data, digital or business-change initiatives. In addition, you ll be confident in your understanding of architecture standards and frameworks (such as ArchiMate, TOGAF, Zachman, and MODAF), as well as principles and governance models.
Your communication skills will be key as you ll work with senior stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds, explaining decisions and technical concepts in a way that suits different audiences. You ll be collaborative, skilled at influencing and negotiating, and comfortable working across a variety of teams. As your priorities may shift depending on business needs, you ll also need to be adaptable and able to manage your own time effectively.
When you join us, you ll receive a full induction to GCHQ so you can understand who we are and what we do. Once in role, you ll receive formal training, on-the-job learning and all the support you need to thrive. We re committed to continuous professional development and will give you the space to grow, innovate and experiment. Typically, around 20% of your time will be dedicated to developing yourself and supporting others.
We know that development is personal, so we ll invest in yours in a way that works for you. Whether you learn best through books, courses, conferences or stretch assignments, we ll make sure you have the resources you need. We ll cover the cost of professional qualifications and give you the time and support required to achieve them. From your first day, you ll have access to mentors and subject matter experts, and together we ll build a work structured development plan that aligns with your goals and helps you grow with confidence.
At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: people with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, people from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website .
To find out more and apply, please visit our website.
To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will still be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. We welcome applications from candidates of all ages, and there is no upper age limit. You can apply at 17; if successful, you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday. Full eligibility details can be found on our website.