Senior Enterprise Architect (Data) - HMRC - G7

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A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architecture and supports the Chief Data Architect.

They will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for technical and business change. They play a key role in ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong Enterprise Data Architecture capability that meets business needs.

A Senior Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for defining our data strategy and roadmaps, aligning them with business strategies and requirements and obtaining senior stakeholder buy in. They drive the development of the Enterprise Data Model and data modelling capability of the HMRC. The role supports the documentation of the organisations data assets, to aid understanding, to allow more effective integration of data, whilst diminishing legacy data silos, enabling HMRC’s hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems.

They will assure and contribute to data and solution designs both as a subject matter expert and from a strategic point of view against the Enterprise Data Architecture. They lead on the governance of data models produced by solution and delivery teams against the Enterprise Data Model and Data Standards.

Job description

A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architect and supports the Chief Data Architect. At this level, you will:

• Maintain, enhance and evolve the Enterprise Data Model ensuring alignment to business data needs now and into the future.
• Promote the use of data models and data architecture in designs, providing oversight and governance to project teams who are undertaking new initiatives.
• Provide oversight and advice to data architects who are undertaking the design of data models.
• Support the management of data dictionaries.
• Define, enhance, and promote data standards, ensuring Data Architects and projects are working to the standards.
• Work with solution and technical architects to make sure that the organisation’s systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

You will need to demonstrate within your application the following essential criteria:

• Ability to guide the organisation to make the correct data decisions, promoting reuse and standardisation to achieve value for money.
• Experience in Data Modelling for operational and analytical systems, including conceptual models through to physical schema deployments.
• Experience in developing and governing Data Principles, Policies, Standards, Processes and Procedures.
• Experience in Master Data Management, Data Quality and Data Governance.
• The ability to simplify complex and technical information by using appropriate and accessible language for non-technical audiences.
• An understanding of how all parts of the business model work together including processes, data models and IT operating models.
• Capable of guiding the decision-making process, explaining trade-offs, and making a recommendation based on all the available information.
• The ability to look beyond the immediate problem and identify the wider implications across the enterprise.

Desirable Criteria

The following skills and experience are desirable:

• Experience of developing data architecture capabilities for operational and analytical systems
• Experience with an Enterprise Data Catalogue and Business Glossary
• Experience of cloud data technologies, enterprise integration tools and Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) tools
• Understanding of the data lifecycle and implications for GDPR
• Either have or work to achieve professional IT qualifications such as TOGAF or CITP
• Experience of Enterprise Architecture modelling using ArchiMate and BPMN notations
• Experience of using Abacus and PowerDesigner

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,344, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,322 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs. 

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days. 

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development. 

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