Chief Architect

Salary: £69,501 – £98,061per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham, Birmingham or Yeading.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 24th May 2026

About the job

The DVSA is building a dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) team to act as the bridge between the business and digital operations. Chief Enterprise Architect leads a team of Lead Enterprise, Technical and Solution Architects to deliver an excellent strategically aligned architecture service, to deliver great customer outcomes and demonstrate business value. They will contribute to the development and delivery of new and evolving operating models, accountable for delivering enterprise-wide architecture capability to ensure the best and most cost-effective technology solutions are developed and deployed for DVSA’s services.

Operating effectively with multi-disciplinary teams of Digital & Data professionals, policy experts and service teams throughout the change lifecycle, using business architecture to inform shape and define strategic business design. The Chief Enterprise Architect will support design, building and delivering to meet user needs, understand business goals and be able to translate future needs into statements of capability.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Job description

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• To provide technical leadership, in the development, operation and ongoing improvement of complex, transformational digital services serving millions of users.
• Accountable for the development and communication of the organisation’s enterprise architecture strategy, plans and governance to ensure that effective controls are in place for internal delegation, audit, control, and compliance. Appropriate committees and boards receive timely reports and advice that will inform their decisions.
• Work collaboratively with senior management and cross functional experts within DVSA, creating or reviewing the target architecture to support the strategic requirements of the business.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. 

Person specification

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• A strong track record in providing hands-on pragmatic architectural leadership through cross functional relationships, in a geographically dispersed, multi-service, technologically diverse environment through both internal capability and service providers
• Strong relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills are essential to provide technical and professional leadership to the architecture community.
• Proficient in matrix working to develop models and plans that drive the execution of the business strategy and improve business performance; understanding and experience of commercial contracts, procurement and sourcing strategies.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for DVSA, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SID=c2VhcmNocGFnZT0xJmpvYmxpc3Rfdmlld192YWM9MTk5NjYxMSZ1c2Vyc2VhcmNoY29udGV4dD0xODk0MDI4ODMmcGFnZWFjdGlvbj12aWV3dmFjYnlqb2JsaXN0JnBhZ2VjbGFzcz1Kb2JzJnNlYXJjaHNvcnQ9c2NvcmUmb3duZXJ0eXBlPWZhaXImb3duZXI9NTA3MDAwMCZyZXFzaWc9MTc3OTExNDcwMi1kMzE5YTgyMDA1Yjc1OWU0NDU1MTgxNDA0YWFhOGE2N2I3ZDc0Zjc2 

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