Senior Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure
HM Revenue and Customs
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 13th November 2024
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About HMRC
At HMRC, we are committed to crafting a phenomenal place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to join us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC.
Diverse perspectives and experiences are essential to our success and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.
HMRC is building a modern, digital tax administration, and currently runs the biggest digital operation in Government. With 50 million customers to serve, over 60 thousand colleagues to support, and £700 billion to collect to fund UK Plc, our IT operation is huge.
About The Team
Our Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for setting the Technology Strategy, defining and advising on platform capabilities, drawing roadmaps and reference architectures as well as helping to govern against these directions.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Job description
This is an outstanding opportunity for a confident and experienced Architect to work within HMRC’s Infrastructure domain, during a time of significant change and transformation, as we focus IT delivery away from legacy technologies and fully exploit the opportunities that cloud technologies provide.
Playing a lead role in crafting and evolving technology roadmaps that will drive the adoption of modern technology, whilst pushing HMRC’s hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems.
As part of the Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture team, you will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for technical and business change. This will ensure that HMRC develops and maintains a strong IT Architecture capability.
Person specification
We are looking for someone with a solid Infrastructure, Cloud, and Collaboration technology background.
- To be responsible for defining our IT strategy and roadmaps for IT Infrastructure, aligning them with business strategies and capability requirements, and socialising and promoting them with senior team members.
- You will support and contribute to solution designs both as a specialist and representative of the strategic viewpoint.
- You will be involved in proof-of-concept exercises to prove new reference architecture patterns and business benefits.
- You will additionally provide internal consultancy on potential uses and appropriateness of the technologies, driving adoption of HMRC’s Enterprise Infrastructure vision.
Essential Criteria:
- A broad IT and Infrastructure background with experience preferably in infrastructure solutions or enterprise architecture roles where you will have gained experience of large-scale infrastructure deployments.
- Focused approach on strategic alignment of technical design and architecture to meet business growth and direction.
- Proven experience of providing internal consultancy on potential uses and appropriateness of infrastructure technologies and driving benefits from these technologies.
- A breadth of understanding of large-scale infrastructure technologies.
Desirable Criteria:
- Either have or work to achieve professional IT certifications, such as TOGAF or CITP within the first 12 months of employment.
- Experience of working in an agile environment and experience with agile methodologies such as TDD, Scrum, Kanban.
- Understanding IT4IT reference architecture and value-chain approach that organisations follow to offer its digital products and services.
Benefits
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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Selection process details
How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV, including your full employment history, education and qualifications, giving details of key achievements for each job/role. Please highlight your experience in line with the essential criteria listed in the advert, you should therefore include details of the work and projects that you have been involved in, and your role therein.
Important information:
• Please attach your CV as a separate additional document in either PDF or word format no bigger than 5MB.
• Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
• Please do not include any personal details in your document title.
• If your CV contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
A full sift will be held on your CV, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
During the panel interview, you will be asked experience-based questions and asked to deliver a short presentation. The full details of the presentation will be provided in advance should you reach the interview stage.
Interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – 374940 & vacancy closing date'
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Merit List
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.
Criminal Record Check
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Additional Security Information
Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.
Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you can travel to.
Terms and Conditions
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.
Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Nik Henderson
- Email : nik.henderson@hmrc.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk
Further information
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via ubsrecruitmentcomplaints@hmrc.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.
