Head of Architecture

Details

Reference number

288542

Salary

£53,227 - £63,686 London: £57,397 - £63,686 National: £53,227 - £59,516 CS Pay Policy applies.

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

ACAS - Digital Data and Technology

Type of role

Analytical
Digital
Other

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Location

About the job

Benefits

Things you need to know

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Location

Any Acas Office with an element of working from home. This post requires regular travel to London as well as occasional travel to other offices. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in Great Britain and not overseas. You will be asked to express a location preference during the application process. Informal hybrid arrangements are available and the balance between home and workplace working is to be agreed with the line manager to achieve the right balance between collaboration, in-person engagement and flexibility.

About the job

Job summary

Acas is at an exciting time as we change our structure, ways of working and culture to be fit for the future.

In this role you will manage Acas' enterprise architecture; drive the vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective. This includes new developments in tooling and approaches to managing the digital and data estate. Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk. Manage a team of architects, ensuring their work is strategically aligned and on track. You will create policies, standards and associated articles to ensure management of the enterprise and data architecture. This includes data models, data quality, data retention and data catalogues. Develop and embed data quality monitoring and metrics to improve the data architecture and the quality of the data used and stored by Acas. You will be accountable for supporting the delivery of the Technology, Digital and Data Strategy, via relevant work in the enterprise architecture area.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, we would love to hear from you!

Job description

• Architecture Ownership - Accountable for management and development of Acas' enterprise and data architecture, driving the digital, technology and data vision, in line with business priorities, achieving value for money and reducing risk.
• Support and advise on the development of a future state architecture, aligned to strategy
• Demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact. Support the defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
• Responsible for the development of relevant polices, standards and catalogues
• Data Quality - Accountable for data quality monitoring and metrics within the data architecture
• Data Retention - Accountable for the development, implementation and monitoring of a Data Retention policy, across the estate.
• Data Storage and Footprint - Accountable for the data footprint and identification and management of unstructured data
• Business Relationships - Accountable for working with the business to capture processes, data sources, data flows and their requirements, ensuring they are aligned with the data architecture
• Technology, Digital and Data Strategy Support - Accountable for supporting the delivery of the Strategy. via relevant work in the enterprise architecture area, including improvements in data management and technical data governance
• Business Improvement - Accountable for the development and implementation of new approaches and tooling to support the development of the Data Architecture within Acas
• Project Support - Accountable for providing direction to new and existing IT projects in relation to Data Architecture and Data Management, supporting delivery at pace.
• Project Assessments - Accountable for managing and co ordinating assessments, reports and projects related to improvements in Data Architecture and Data Management, including the introduction of new tooling
• Data Auditing - Accountable for developing and managing a process to continuously audit data management system performance, liaising with stakeholders and senior management regarding issues that arise.
• Stakeholder Relationships - Develop the architecture community by managing stakeholder relationships within DDaT and the wider business in relation to Enterprise and Data Architecture
• Manage a geographically dispersed team of architects, ensuring their work is strategically aligned and on track

Who we are

Acas exists to make working life better for everyone in Britain. We are the experts in workplace matters, we’re impartial, so we’re not on anyone’s side. That means we’re working for everyone to help prevent and resolve workplace issues.

Acas helps employers and employees by providing information, advice, training, conciliation and other services that prevent or resolve workplace problems.

There's no charge for most of what we offer. Acas has been recognised for its Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace from the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion awards – Disability Confident Highly Commended; Pay Gap award winner and Overall winner for public sector organisations. Acas is committed to providing services and developing policies which embrace diversity, promote equality of opportunity and eliminate unlawful discrimination.

Person specification

Experience

Essential:

• Ability to demonstrate extensive experience in the field of enterprise, technical and data architecture, covering a wide range of activities, aligning to the technology, digital and data requirements of the role; to ensure business priorities, value for money and risk are all considerations.
• Ability to demonstrate the creation of and embedding of relevant architectural policies, standards and models.
• Experience of working across the business to ensure strategic needs are captured within the vision and roadmaps of the enterprise architecture.
• Experience of advising and developing the future state architecture of an organisation to meet strategic needs, including a working knowledge of cloud technologies.
• Experience of applying best practice Data Management methods, to develop data quality metrics to optimise system performance
• Experience of applying best in practice architectural concepts and processes, including working with relevant tooling that supports enterprise architecture development, mapping and monitoring.

Qualifications

Recognised architectural qualification e.g., TOGAF, BCS

Benefits

We’re big believers in rewarding people for the amazing work they do, take a look at some of the fantastic benefits we offer:

• Learning and Development
• Reward and recognition
• Health and wellbeing
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Childcare schemes
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Volunteering opportunities

Could you ask for any more?

You’ll have access to a Life style website, were you’ll be able to grab savings over a wide range of products from holidays to your weekly shop.

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Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply

Please click on the 'Apply now' button.

Please submit a CV and tailored evidence-based statement of suitability reflecting the essential experience requirements in the JD. Your statement of suitability should be no longer than 1000 words. It should avoid generalised assertions, instead including specific examples of achievements, explaining the degree of challenge, what you did and the outcomes.

In the application form you will be asked to express if you meet the desirable criteria in 250 words. Details of this can be found in the JD.

Interview Details

If you have successfully passed sift, you will be invited to an interview via MS Teams which is likely to take place the week commencing 12 June 2023. The interview will be Experience based interview and will also include a presentation, details will be provided at Interview stage.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : HR Recruitment Email : HRRecruitment@acas.org.uk

Recruitment team

Email : HRRecruitment@acas.org.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Code and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact us on HRRecruitment@acas.org.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from us, you can contact the Civil Service Commission.