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A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architecture and supports the Chief Data Architect. They will engage at a strategic level, influencing policy, and setting direction for technical and business change. They play a key role in ensuring that HMRC develops and maintains a strong Enterprise Data Architecture capability that meets business needs.
A Senior Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for defining our data strategy and roadmaps, aligning them with business strategies and requirements and obtaining senior stakeholder buy in. They drive the development of the Enterprise Data Model and data modelling capability of the HMRC. The role supports the documentation of the organisations data assets, to aid understanding, to allow more effective integration of data, whilst diminishing legacy data silos, enabling HMRC’s hugely complex IT estate towards a smaller set of strategic systems.
They will assure and contribute to data and solution designs both as a subject matter expert and from a strategic point of view against the Enterprise Data Architecture. They lead on the governance of data models produced by solution and delivery teams against the Enterprise Data Model and Data Standards.
Job description
Main Duties
A Senior Enterprise Data Architect delivers the vision for the organisation as set by the Head of Enterprise Architect and supports the Chief Data Architect. At this level, you will:
• Maintain, enhance and evolve the Enterprise Data Model ensuring alignment to business data needs now and into the future.
• Promote the use of data models and data architecture in designs, providing oversight and governance to project teams who are undertaking new initiatives.
• Provide oversight and advice to data architects who are undertaking the design of data models.
• Support the management of data dictionaries.
• Define, enhance, and promote data standards, ensuring Data Architects and projects are working to the standards.
• Work with solution and technical architects to make sure that the organisation’s systems are designed in accordance with the appropriate data architecture.
