Lead Enterprise Architect

The Opportunity

As a Lead Enterprise Architect within Parliament, you will assume a pivotal leadership position, collaborating closely with senior parliamentary business, strategy, and technical leads. Your primary mission will be to demonstrate the strategic significance of Enterprise Architecture in shaping effective strategic decision making, driving business change, and fostering technology innovation within the parliamentary context. Leading the development and refinement of business capability models, reference architectures and technology roadmaps, you will facilitate productive discussions and drive informed decision-making across Parliament.

• taking a strategic approach to aligning initiatives with overarching digital and parliamentary objectives, analysing the organisation's technology needs, and developing standards, reference architectures, and roadmaps to achieve transformative outcomes in collaboration with subject-matter experts.
• providing expert guidance on optimal architectural design, guiding teams to adhere to correct technical governance processes while ensuring the appropriate application of organisational standards and methodologies.
• identifying and mitigating complex architecture challenges or risks ensuring successful outcomes that align with parliamentary priorities and meet the highest parliamentary standards.
• defining and driving strategic technical procurement requirements that align with strategic goals and uphold the exceptional quality expected within Parliament.
• collaborating on the development and maintenance of robust technical roadmaps, proactively identifying future opportunities and potential challenges, promoting the reuse of components and solutions across parliamentary services while ensuring compliance with parliamentary guidelines and stringent security protocols.

  What You Need

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  • experience as a senior Enterprise Architect or an equivalent role, showcasing practitioner-level capability across diverse architectures, technologies, and programming languages. Including an architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF or equivalent) or demonstrable experience within architecture frameworks and capability based planning.
  • experience of demonstrating technology leadership through significant contribution to the development of accessible, reusable reference architectures, the definition of technology policies and standards, and the development of clear and well-followed technical governance processes.
  • experience of managing people through periods of ambiguity, building and maintaining motivation, balancing and prioritising workload, and measuring delivery productivity, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion.
  • experience of building strong relationships with stakeholders at various levels within the parliamentary environment and effectively communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • experience of leading the translation of business problems into pragmatic architectural designs, anchored in robust technology solution design principles, and customized to meet unique organisational requirements.
  • experience of making well-informed decisions, considering risk and complexity, and skilfully influencing positive outcomes while ensuring solutions comply with standards and compliance requirements.
  • desirable: Experience of public sector procurement rules and practices in a complex organisational and technical environment.
  • the ability to pass security clearance, backed by the right to work in the UK

    About The Team

    The Enterprise Architecture team is part of the Office of the CTO. We are responsible for developing Parliament's technology strategy ensuring that Parliament has the technology it needs to do its work. We do this through mapping Parliament's digital landscape, working closely with teams across Parliament to understand how demand for digital will change over time, working with teams in the Digital Service to develop roadmaps and developing Parliament's reference architecture, standards and design patterns.

    About Us

    UK Parliament is steeped in history and tradition. It is an important part of UK life and we need to ensure as many people as possible can engage with its work. This is why we are at the start of a huge transformation programme powered by technology. The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) works with the House of Commons and the House of Lords with all their IT and digital needs. We are here to realise the digital ambitions of a modern Parliament and welcome you to join us in building a digital democracy.

    Our Package

    Please refer to our Candidate Information Pack for a full list of our benefits which include:

    • up to 35 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
    • generous maternity pay policy up to 6 months full pay
    • great pension scheme options (contributory and non-contributory)
    • on-site subsidised gym, nursery, catering, post office, travel office and GP
    • flexible options including hybrid working and family friendly policies

      How To Apply

      Please make sure you're clear on the requirements of the role. These can be found in the Job Description and Candidate Information Pack. You will need to upload a CV and show how you meet criterions 1,2 and 3. Our application process is anonymous, so please remove any personal information from your CV.

      Apply By:

      Interviews: TBC : 9th May 2025

      Format: Panel Interview (Remote)

      Our Culture

      For our people, we provide an amazing opportunity to bring their talents to an institution that sits right at the heart of society in the UK. We are helping to change UK Parliament and strengthen democracy. What matters here is your potential for growth and your commitment to playing your part in our ongoing success.

      We are passionate about providing an environment which promotes inclusion, diversity and equality. Regardless of your age, gender, ethnicity, beliefs or any of the other things that make you, you. We welcome applications from people who feel under-represented in the workforce. This includes those who may feel disadvantaged because of their socioeconomic circumstances.