Enterprise Architect

HM Land Registry (HMLR) is undertaking one of the largest digital transformation programmes in government, modernising the systems and services that underpin property ownership in England and Wales. As Lead Enterprise Architect, you'll play an important role in shaping and embedding HMLR's technology strategy whilst ensuring that architecture, business objectives and delivery are fully aligned to drive value, sustainability and innovation across the organisation. £66,200 - £83,000 plus 29% pension contribution and Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from a choice of Plymouth, Coventry, Leicester or Nottingham.

Job description

It's an exciting time to join HM Land Registry as it continues to deliver on its ambitious Business Strategy through a major transformation portfolio. As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you'll be at the centre of the Customer First programme, helping to simplify how customers interact with the organisation, improve communication, and modernise the underpinning technology. Your role will focus on connecting business outcomes with the enabling technology, people and processes that bring HMLR's vision to life, ensuring it remains a modern, customer-focused and digitally capable organisation.

You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, bringing structure to complex problems and aligning business and technology capabilities to support transformation. Enterprise Architects are central to guiding strategic decision-making, ensuring reuse, scalability and value for money while promoting transparency, collaboration and innovation. This is a leadership role that bridges strategy and delivery, driving change across the organisation and supporting HMLR's goal of providing seamless, high-quality services to citizens and businesses.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Architecture profession and what it's like to work at HMLR, a Hiring Manager Q&A session where you can virtually 'meet the team' will be held via Teams on Friday 31st of October at 12:30pm. Please follow the Apply link for regitration details.

Main responsibilities

As a Lead Enterprise Architect, you will play a critical role in ensuring HMLR's technology strategy is developed, Embedded and followed, you will:

• 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 - ensuring there is a strong connection between strategy, architecture and execution.
• Provide strategic architectural direction, impact analysis and assurance across the design to delivery process by understanding the organisation's ecosystem and its interdependencies.
• Establish and own the architectural vision and definition for business capabilities, initiatives or technologies (including reference architectures and principles) by collaborating with organisational stakeholders, for example, Customer and Strategy, Product, Planning and Delivery teams.
• Contribute to and provide regular strategic assessments on HM Land Registry's Technology Strategy and Technology Health Framework. Including carrying out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation.
• Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes by fostering, promoting and maturing enterprise architecture in HM Land Registry.

Essential skills

• Knowledge of Architecture frameworks ie TOGAF, Zachman
• Experience of developing solutions to complex problems through software/application design.
• Experience of designing projects and guiding them from designs through delivery phases.
• Ability to assess the impact of technical change on people, process, technology and data.
• Understanding of the commercial impacts of technology implementation and adoption.
• Top-down thinking and structured, logical decomposition of problems using appropriate modelling techniques and languages.
• Commercial skills in developing contracts and managing suppliers.
• Leading, managing, and mentoring technical people.

Location

Expectation is to be working from the advertised office 60% of your time across the month (typically 3 days/week), hours are flexible and condensed hours are an option.

Available office locations: Plymouth, Nottingham, Leicester and Coventry

Benefits

• Civil Service Grade 7: £66,200 - £83,000 dependent upon assessment at interview. Capability reviews take place annually
• Over 29% employer pension contribution
• Annual leave of 28.5 days' paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 days public holidays
• A clear progression Pathway inc. personalised training and development plans including expensed accreditations with training days set aside
• Flexi-time scheme (You decide what working hours work best for you)
• Opportunity to work condensed hours
• Social and sports club
• Access to our employee assistance programme for counselling and support on a wide range of issues
• Interest-free loan for season tickets
• Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
• HMLR have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development and flexible ways of working.

Further information

• Please apply with a CV that has evidence against the Essential Skills of the role
• HMLR does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you are a strategic and collaborative technology leader with a passion for solving complex enterprise challenges, influencing senior stakeholders and shaping large-scale digital transformation, this is an opportunity to make a real impact. Apply now or contact Zee in complete confidence.