Interim Head of Architecture/Lead Enterprise Architect

Location: Birmingham, hybrid working
Contract length: 3-4 month day rate (within scope of IR35)
Salary: Competitive day rate

The Interim Head of Architecture plays a key role in structuring the supporting the university in terms of its business, data, application and technical architectures. This person aligns strategic goals and objectives with decisions regarding products and services, partners and suppliers, organisation, capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives. The underlying drivers are based around the University Strategic Framework and the Digital Strategy, supporting business operations, data governance and technical frameworks and related processes which link these aspects of the university together. The Head of Architecture & Design will develop and maintain an integrated view of the university using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.

The Head of Architecture reports to the CIO to align technical solutions with business needs. The post has supervisory responsibility of the wider architecture team, including specialist in data and process skills, and involves coaching, mentoring and management. In addition, the Head of Architecture will work with others at all levels of the organisation analysing strategic imperatives from senior leaders, and supporting managers as they develop and deliver business plans. The Head of Architecture also provides direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of strategic initiatives or programmes, and delivery of bottom line business value.

In order to apply, you must have the following skills and experience:

• Experienced architect, with background in developing technology architect solutions for systems, infrastructure, security and wider enterprises.
• Broad, enterprise-wide understanding of Applications, Infrastructure, Project Management, Service Design and Governance
• Understanding of organisational business systems, processes and their infrastructure needs
• The ability to recognise structural issues within an organisation, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions
• Understanding of the legal and purchasing requirements of delivering IT projects and the need for infrastructure input to these processes to ensure compliance.
• Ability to examine technologies and trends to identify the benefits the University can leverage from adopting those in the future in addition to the immediate usages.
• Able to clearly articulate complex technical concepts in plain language.
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organisation and to high-priority business issues
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• The ability to visualise and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Demonstrable leadership and budget management experience.

If you have the relevant experience and would like to apply, please submit your CV.

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