Lead Enterprise Architect

£57,515 to £82,430 per year, The base pay is £57,515. In addition to this, the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £24,915.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: Yes

Closing Date: 22/03/2026

Can you shape and lead enterprise and business architecture that translates organisational strategy into clear capabilities, roadmaps and outcomes, influencing decisions at the most senior levels?

Do you have deep experience in business and enterprise architecture, with the credibility to advise senior leaders, align complex stakeholder groups and guide large scale transformation across an organisation?

If you thrive on working in complex environments, balancing strategic intent with practical delivery, and leading architectural thinking that helps organisations change with confidence, we would love to hear from you. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
Employer pension contribution of
28.97% of your salary.

Read more about Civil Service Pensions here 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.

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Department for Transport Careers We are seeking an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to join our Architecture function.

This role will play a pivotal part in shaping the strategic direction and maturity of business and enterprise architecture across the agency, ensuring that architectural practice effectively supports business strategy, transformation and capability delivery.

As Lead Enterprise Architect you will act as a senior advisor and leader, influencing strategic decision making, guiding architectural practice and supporting cross-functional teams to deliver value.

You will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to develop and maintain integrated architecture artefacts, business capability models and roadmaps that articulate both current and future state views of the agency’s operations.

Your focus will include business architecture, data, information flows and governance, alongside technology and solution architecture.

This is a senior role requiring strong leadership, excellent stakeholder engagement skills and an ability to operate effectively across business, policy and technical communities within the agency.

Strategic Architecture and Leadership Lead the definition and delivery of enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and priorities.

Provide high-level architectural guidance that interprets business strategy into coherent architecture roadmaps and business capability models.

Horizon scan for trends, risks and opportunities that could influence future architectural decisions and organisational capability.

Promote architectural standards, principles, patterns and frameworks across the agency.

Business Architecture Focus Develop and maintain business architecture artefacts that represent the agency’s capability landscape, business processes, information needs and organisational interdependencies.

Work with business and policy leads to articulate, analyse and optimise business capabilities in support of policy outcomes and transformation initiatives.

Use business capability insights to influence strategic planning, investment decisions and prioritisation of change activity.

Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across business, digital, data and technology domains.

Communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring common understanding.

Facilitate discussions to align stakeholders around architectural direction and trade-offs.

Team Leadership and Collaboration Lead, mentor and support other enterprise architects and architectural practitioners to foster architectural excellence.

Support enterprise-wide architectural governance, assurance and decision-making…