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As an Enterprise Architect, you will work across business and technology domains to review, interpret and respond to business requirements, ensuring that DDaT can deliver business needs.

You will provide input into the business architecture, with key responsibility for interdependencies with project, programmes and services.
You will provide the enterprise perspective ensuring to solution architecture to ensure that a solution will be fit for purpose from at least a technical, people and process perspective. You will also provide assurance that the solution complies with the Code of Practice design principles and standards; identifying and filling any gaps in those principles and standards.

• Help develop DDaT architecture principles, standards and patterns at the enterprise / macro level.
• Help shape the enterprise vision and roadmap for delivering digital, data and technology services into the future, identifying potential opportunities for how emerging technology innovations can help drive
  a more effective solution.
• Support the development of investment cases for the delivery of new DDaT products or services and follow through on the design and delivery so that they can be managed through live by Service Operations.
• Accountability for the enterprise architecture and its interdependencies and integrations with other business solutions.
• Be the lead architect on the programme team, advising on the overall solution to ensure any issues are uncovered and resolved quickly.
• Work closely with solution architects to ensure that they are implementing solutions in keeping with your design intent.
• Attend any ceremonies as a way of keeping open lines of communication with the project team members and ensuring that decisions are in line with your overall design.
• Own the Enterprise Scope / Solution Overview / High Level Design documentation for a project or programme so that it can be approved
• Responsible for developing the minimum-viable architecture with the solution architects so that it is available in time for the development teams.
• Develop the Solution Roadmap to show how the solution will be further enhanced after minimum-viable product and through to retirement.
• Presenting and explaining technical solutions in a non-technical way to C-level / senior stakeholders.

• Complex IT programme architecture involving dependency management and multi-supplier deliveries in an enterprise architecture capacity.
• Practical understanding of architectural models of business and enterprise architecture.
• Broad understanding of the range of technologies and approaches which may be selected to deliver business capabilities.
• How to prove, pilot and learn new technologies and keep up to date with industry best-practice, external disruptors and adapt accordingly.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify areas where specialist input is required and to coordinate the required resources and consider their advice and input constructively in the broader context of an end-to-end service.
• The appropriate time is to make a decision and identify when an error in judgment has occurred and how to learn from that error.

• Familiar with modern microservice architectures and able to design solutions which use these to deliver solutions which meet user needs
• Innovative and able to apply this to your own work.
• Aware of and understand agile methodology and how to apply the agile mindset to all aspects of your work.
• Have the ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and utilise an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
• Unafraid to take risks, willing to learn from mistakes and appreciates the importance of agile project delivery for digital projects in government.
• Able to ensure the team has a situational awareness of what each other is working on and how this relates to practical objectives and user needs.
• Capable of collaboratively investigating, analysing and solving complex problems and concepts and making disciplined decisions based on available information.

• Defining requirements in an agile development framework based upon user needs, from vision, through epics to user stories and tasks
• Identifying opportunities for service and business improvement, pinpointing opportunities to allow organisations to perform more effectively.
• Writing business cases justifying investment in digital spending
• Specifying requirements from both a business and user perspective to enable agreed changes to be implemented effectively.
• Identifying, analysing and managing relationships with and between stakeholders.
• Communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts whilst focusing on user needs
• Been an architect on an agile programme that used an enterprise-scale cloud computing platform

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