Senior Enterprise Architect (Data Analytics) - HMRC - G7

Manchester Digital
Manchester
1 month ago
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Location Overview

Bristol Regional Centre – 3 Glass Wharf; Cardiff Regional Centre – Ty William Morgan; Edinburgh Regional Centre – Queen Elizabeth House; Leeds Regional Centre – Wellington Place; Liverpool Regional Centre – Water Street; Manchester Regional Centre – Three New Bailey; Newcastle Upon Tyne – Benton Park View; Telford – Plaza 1 and 2; Worthing – Teville Gate House; Salford – Trinity Bridge House. Please note, due to location restrictions, Newcastle-upon-Tyne_ is only available to existing HMRC employees already based in this location.

About The Job

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Location

Bristol Regional Centre – 3 Glass Wharf; Cardiff Regional Centre – Ty William Morgan; Edinburgh Regional Centre – Queen Elizabeth House; Leeds Regional Centre – Wellington Place; Liverpool Regional Centre – Water Street; Manchester Regional Centre – Three New Bailey; Newcastle Upon Tyne – Benton Park View; Telford – Plaza 1 and 2; Worthing – Teville Gate House; Salford – Trinity Bridge House. Please note, due to location restrictions, Newcastle-upon-Tyne_ is only available to existing HMRC employees already based in this location.

About The Job

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Data and Analytics is at the heart of everything we do at HMRC. Working in the Data Analytics Platform team you will play a key role in developing HMRC’s Analytic platform strategy. Championing the adoption of modern technology, whilst pushing HMRC’s hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems.

You will also be responsible for ensuring alignment with business strategies and requirements, managing and influencing senior stakeholders both within HMRC and wider UK government.

Job Description

The role plays a major part in supporting HMRC’s IT governance process. As a subject matter expert, you will offer advice and guidance to solution architects to ensure designs conform to HMRC’s IT strategy. Taking a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes you to guide the organisation to make accurate technology decisions, promoting reuse, sustainability and scalability to achieve value for money.

As part of the Enterprise Architecture team you will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for technical and business change. You will also play a key role in ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong IT Architecture capability.

Person specification

As a member of the Data Analytics Platform team this role is specifically responsible for the strategy and architecture of:

  • Enterprise reporting, analytics, AI/ML end user tooling including technology roadmaps and product selection.
  • Data pipelines including data acquisition, ingestion, transformation, quality and matching. Data storage including technology roadmaps, product selection and compliance.
Essential Criteria

You will need to demonstrate within your application the following essential skills and experience:

  • A broad IT and Enterprise Architecture (EA) background, with experience in architecting enterprise scale applications or architecture roles where you will have gained experience of large-scale data platform deployments.
  • The ability to develop, detail and establish architectural principles, policies, standards, roadmaps and reference architectures.
  • Ability to carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying advances in technology, emerging trends and their potential impact on the organisation.
  • The ability to simplify complex and technical information by using appropriate and accessible language for non-technical audiences.
  • 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.

We\'ll assess you against your demonstrable knowledge and experience in one of the following:

  • Data Lifecycle, Standards & Tools.
  • Cloud native Data analytics services.
  • Data transformation and metadata management tools (e.g. Talend, informatica etc).
  • Analytical data exploitation tools (e.g. SAS, Power BI, Pentaho).
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to enable Customer Insights & Segmentation, Behavioural analytics.
Transitional Sites Information

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window)

These Sites Are
  • Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
  • Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
  • Trinity Bridge House, Manchester - moving to an alternative office in Manchester/ Salford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

About The GDAD Allowance

In addition to the base salary advertised for this role, candidates may also be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance with a value up to £12,000, based on a Capability and Skills Assessment. Any additional allowance awarded is non-contractual and non-pensionable and is dependent on you remaining in a GDAD allowance qualifying role. The allowance is subject to an annual review and can be reduced or withdrawn at any time in line with HMRC/GDAD Pay Framework policy.

About The Capability Assessment

Candidates who receive a job offer will be invited to complete a capability and skills assessment; this is a self-assessment based on the skills in the Government Digital & Data Profession Capability Framework. This will be used to determine the capability level – Accomplished, Proficient or Developing – and there are different allowance values for each of the 3 levels. Candidates will be given 10 working days to complete and return the self-assessment. Guidance will be provided. The self-assessment will take place alongside the Pre-Employment and Security checks for external candidates. Notification of the level of allowance: The self-assessment will be reviewed by an Assurance Panel and the candidate will be notified of their allowance and total salary package at the earliest opportunity and before their start date. An expected timeframe will be provided when the self-assessment has been submitted.

Technical skills

We\'ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • During Interview, You will be asked to demonstrate your knowledge and experience in one of topics listed in the essential criteria. Please check the essential criteria section for more details.


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