Head of Enterprise Architecture (B0314N)

Job Description

Head of Enterprise ArchitectureApplication closing date: 01/05/23 at 23:59A bit about the roleAt Homes England, we have a clear vision to adopting a product-centric approach to delivering world class digital services to colleagues, partners, and customers. We are looking for an experienced leader for the architecture profession, who can help bringabout and embed that transformation on how digital services are delivered, maintained, and continuously improved. As head of profession, and a senior member of the digital directorate, you will build and maintain excellence in architecture. You will play akey role in building a holistic view of Homes England digital landscape, strategy, and roadmap.This is an exciting time to be joining the agency. We are building empowered agile multi-disciplinary teams that can provide the organisation with the technical capabilities to meet its mission with greater agility and enterprise architecture plays a keyrole in achieving purpose over chaos.Key responsibilitiesLead and manage the architecture community, providing direction, guidance, and support.Facilitate internal mobility, shape career paths, and recruit architecture talent to build capability and excellence for a lean agile architecture practice.Create high performing teams with an agile mindset. Building teams that consistently and iteratively deliver quality services.You will develop the agile ways of working in collaboration with your team and other heads of roles to promote effective cross-functional agile delivery.You set the direction for your teams and apply the appropriate governance to manage quality, risk, and compliance.A bit about youYou are excited about contributing to the Homes England mission.You have vast experience in an enterprise architecture capacity.You have successfully delivered technology and digital transformation strategies.You have good people management skills to lead and manage a large diverse architecture team including architects from our digital partners.You have a track record of hiring and retaining top architecture talent and nurturing a community that can repeatedly successfully embed best practices in our delivery teams through the standards and process guardrails that you are responsible for.You have a deep knowledge of a range of architecture tools and techniques, with an ability to coach within and outside of your team.You have experience working in environments using DevOps practices and deploying to a public cloud.You are good at building strong relationships across the organisation to be able to influence strategy and execution and advocate for agile delivery practices.You are able to proactively solve issues, unblock problems, drive teams and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments with a focus on outcomes.You are able to identify and challenge organisational processes of unnecessarily high complexity and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes.You keep abreast of emerging trends and best practices and can embed relevant trends and practices into the organisation.Nice to have:You have working knowledge of the The Technology Code of Practice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).Who are we Homes England, the governments housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is toensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.Following the publication of the governments Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunitiesacross the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.What we offer... As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, we are committed to hybrid working. Well support you, wherever possible, so that you dont miss out on what matters to you.If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.If you are a member of a professional body, well pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, youll be good to go.Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We were all working from homeduring the pandemic and have since moved to a hybrid model, moving back into our office environments and utilising our space and time together in the most conducive way.We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage.

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