Duration: 6 months

Work Location: Hybrid - Required to go to respective offices for all key meetings (Frequency - twice a month)- London/Manchester/Bristol

• IT and Enterprise Architecture (EA) skills, including leadership of strategic directions/roadmaps for Enterprise scale platforms/capabilities.
• Experience of driving, delivering, and assuring technology change against a background of organisational transformation.
• Experience in public sector is must and experience in strategic engagements with stakeholders, with evidence of setting IT strategy, influencing business customers and taking a lead role to enable both IT and business change.
• Knowledge of enterprise-wide IT applications, including making use of enterprise cloud platforms - IaaS, SaaS and PaaS specifically on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft technologies
• Past experience of engaging with external partners, contractors, vendors to ensure the successful implementation of architectural solutions
• Strong knowledge of data design principles, modelling techniques and experience of leading the design and implementation of data architecture strategy, directing evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met
• Proficient in Agile Architecture/GDS Delivery Ways of Working by having implemented and promoted agile architecture and Government Digital Service (GDS) delivery methods to ensure efficient and effective project delivery
• Ability to ensure compliance with authority architecture principles, standards, patterns, and guardrails.