Deputy Director Chief Architect - HO - SCS1 (IT)

Job descriptionKey responsibilities include: setting the architecture vision and roadmap for the Home Office and leading enterprise architecture strategic planning, ensuring alignment to the wider DDaT and Home Office technical strategy directing architecture policies, principles & standards and creating current/future state models and blueprints ensuring the organisation meets its legal obligations with solutions that are architected, designed, built and procured to meet relevant architecture standards and are accessible to all working with Security and Infrastructure teams to provide robust, secure, scalable and reusable solutions within time and budget restraints, and integrating them into business as usual ensuring strategic, technical and operational risks and issues relating to architecture are identified and appropriately managed leading a team of architecture, technology and engineering professionals, ensuring that they are managed effectively and aligned with the DDaT strategy defining and leading appropriate governance forums and processes for architecture, aligned with the DDaT Technical Design Authority, to ensure optimal decision-making and successful delivery embedding innovation into strategic planning and establishing continuous improvement processes that drive efficiency in the cost and quality of platform services *For further information, please check the Candidate pack for the role, attached at the end of the advert.

Location: England,, GB

Posted Date: 9/7/2025