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SalaryThis role will provide leadership and direction to drive the alignment of business and technology through Information Technology architecture.
The Chief Architect will demonstrate competencies across three key areas:
Interpret Business Needs
- Reviews current business strategy and engages senior business stakeholders to identify the business drivers, associated business services and capabilities (future and current state) and the associated IT capabilities to support successful change and achieve desired business outcomes.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to develop aligned business and technical blueprints and roadmaps aligned to the IT and business strategy.
- Support the development of business requirements for specific project investment and ensure alignment against the blueprints, roadmap, strategy.
- Support the realisation of solution through architecture into delivery, roll-out and operation, and full systems lifecycle management including evergreening technology platforms.
Assess & Apply Technology
- Analyses the technology industry trends that could apply to HMRC within VOA and how HMRC interacts and supports intermediaries (including IDV&A).
- Leads the evaluation of new and innovative technology related to the domain through paper-based analysis and exercises, proof of concepts, prototypes and pilots working closely with business and technical stakeholders.
- Accountable for the development of discussion papers and points of view that support the introduction of change that can improve business outcomes.
- Actively supports the aspirational design of associated systems and platforms aligned to the domain strategy.
- Accountable for the design and development of successful solutions architectures to support project investment.
- Provide oversight and support across the project delivery lifecycle to ensure the integrity of solution are maintained and that business outcomes achieved.
- Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes and acts as a pre-sales consultant to business stakeholders.
Provide Enterprise Guidance for The Domain (Intermediaries and VOA)
- Accountable for leading the development of appropriate artefacts including; transformation maps, standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs and guides for the domain to accelerate and align specific solution architectures.
- Support architectural governance of individual solutions against the domain strategy and artefacts to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate
- Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Gain an understanding of the overall business strategy and relevant operational and policies strategies and help translate these into effective IT change.
- Validate that HMRC’s IT Strategy remains aligned to the appropriate operational and policy strategies and support updates as necessary.
- Engage with other IT Leaders and the wider government community to develop a cross government perspective for their domain areas and ensure HMRC interests are represented and opportunities for HMRC are exploited.
- Overall support the delivery of more effective business change.
Key Interactions
- Manage a matrixed team
- HMRC Director Generals and their Senior Leadership Teams
- HMRC Strategy Units
- HMRC Transformation Teams
- Executive Committee
- Enterprise and Solution Architects
- Other CDIO Units
- Third Party IT Suppliers
- Other Government Departments
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