DDaT - Army- Enterprise Architect - Lead Business Architect
Ministry of Defence
Apply before 11:55pm, on Friday 1st August 2025
Reference number: 405828
Salary: £59,690 - £65,610
The base salary for this grade is £59,690 offers above this will be made up of a Digital Skills Allowance of up to £15,300 per annum for exceptional candidates.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Contract type: Permanent

Location: Army Headquarters, Andover, SP11 8H

We are passionate about Smarter Working and believe that a combination of flexible working practices, digital technology and modern workspaces will give you the opportunity to enjoy a healthy work-life balance, while ensuing you deliver your outcomes effectively and efficiently – we expect you to know where to be to have the most impact, balancing your individual needs with that of your team and the organisation. However, recognising the benefits of face to face working, especially for new joiners, there is an expectation that you would be in the office at least 60% of the time (3 days a week).

About the job
The Ministry of Defence employs over 50,000 Civil Servants. Within that, the Army Top Level Budget (TLB) employs around 12,000 MOD Civil Servants located at over 300 locations. Ours is a diverse workforce, with roles ranging from trainers, human resources, teachers, and psychologists to storekeepers, financiers, project and programme managers, and policy secretariat staff. There are many different functions and professions delivering key outputs for the Army.

Step into the future of warfare with the Information Directorate, where data drives decisions and digital dominance defines victory. We lead in strategic data management, intelligence, and cutting-edge technology, delivering the tools that give the Army a decisive edge on the modern battlefield.

As part of our civil servant team, you’ll be at the forefront of information warfare, countering disinformation, safeguarding critical data, and ensuring information integrity in a rapidly evolving digital battlespace. You’ll work with state-of-the-art tools, including AI, advanced analytics, and next-gen tech, helping the Army outthink, outmanoeuvre, and outpace its adversaries.

In the Information Directorate, you’ll turn that vision into reality. From strengthening cyber resilience to driving digital transformation on the front lines, your expertise will shape the Army’s future. You’ll collaborate with a diverse network of experts, deploying innovative strategies to maintain the Army’s dominance in an increasingly contested information environment.

This is more than a job—it’s your chance to redefine digital defence, push the boundaries of innovation, and directly contribute to the Army’s lethality and operational effectiveness.

Join us. Shape the future. Strengthen the force.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description
This role sits within the Information Design Authority (Info DA) and is responsible for the management and running of the Business Architecture functional area, and an integral part of the Architecture Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

This role will support the Chief Architect in the enablement, creation, evolution, and operation of the Army Info DA architecture function in support of the Army Chief Data and Information Officer mandate, vision, and strategy. This role will enable and facilitate architecture assurance, capture, coherence and enablement across the British Army collating, creating, publishing, and assuring methodologies, frameworks, principles, policies, and standards, leading the governance and control processes required to implement via architectures, digital transformation and digital by default to the British Army.

The Info DA is the mechanism by which Director Information and the Army Chief Technology Officer can operate as the digital functional leader for the British Army. The organisation and information capability-portfolio requires a digital, data, information and architectural governance capability to support and control design operational outcomes and warfighting effectiveness future proofing the Army's processes, information and technology footprint for maximum operational effectiveness across organisational boundaries in a digital and data age.

As the Assistant Head Business Architect, you will:
Communicate the vision, principles, and strategy for the architecture functions within the Info DA with accountable lead for business architecture
Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business challenges
Work with central Defence (Defence Digital, Strategic Command, DE&S) to enable a federated model for enabling architecture across defence, responsible for collating, publishing, and assuring against a range of central and federated artefacts including policy, process, technologies, and standards
Interact with stakeholders across organisations, teams, or communities to ensure the enablement, assurance, and governance of business and wider architecture functions across the Army and wider Defence
Ensure design work from projects and programmes aligns with strategy
Ensure business change is implemented effectively to meet strategy
Aggregate and disaggregate complex information from across your organisation
Communicate complex information about the organisation to stakeholders
Support executive level work and management of the business architecture practice
Guide others in using appropriate business architectural tools and methods
Understand and apply business architectural principles, techniques, and tools to business scenarios
Create business architecture artefacts, including abstract representations of the organisation, knowing when to apply them
Develop standard and scalable models to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex information

Person specification
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who can handle the pressure of coordinating a wide range of activities and should be comfortable working within the Architecture profession, willing to challenge established norms and processes and be prepared to adapt to changing priorities. Applicants should also have effective written and verbal communication skills and display a positive and professional attitude.

Essential:
Knowledge and Experience of TOGAF or another architectural framework
Enterprise Architecture Experience
Experience in working in an Information, Data or Digital Discipline
Experience of managing, leading and governing DDaT , architectural or system functional areas and teams delivering service and capability outcomes
Well versed in communication and confident in explaining complex concepts and technologies to others
Able to prioritise tasks and work as part of a large multi-disciplined teams spanning different levels and types of stakeholders delivering digital/technology products and services
A genuine desire to develop, learn and contribute to the team championing an inclusive, neo-diverse and agile culture as a digital leader
Experience of working in a senior or middle level architecture or digital/date role, experience of working as an architect with exposures to frameworks, taxonomies, standards, and architecture repositories
Experience of leading or delivering an architectural, systems engineering or data governance or service provision

Desirable:
Certified Information Management Principles
Experience in Assurance and Governance in a Digital, Data or Technology domain
TOGAF Certified
Knowledge or Archie, ArchiMate notation and SYSUML
Experience of using SPARX EA, ARCHI and Prolaborate
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Leadership
Seeing the Big Picture
Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Business Architecture: Working Level
Making and Guiding Decisions: Working Level
Communicating Information: Expert Level
Methods and Tools: Expert Level

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Army prides itself on being a supportive employer and where possible encourages flexible working, helping you to maintain a great work/life balance.

Other benefits for Army civil servants include:
25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service
Pension contribution: 28.97%
Personal and professional development of skills
Alternative working patterns for many roles
Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a free service that assists you with achieving a productive, healthy environment that is conducive to a healthy lifestyle
Enhanced parental and adoption leave
6 days special leave per year which can be used for volunteering activities
Learning and Development
Free parking
Access to on-site gym

We believe that everyone has the potential to make a difference and you will be supported to help you learn and advance in your career. This includes working towards membership of a professional body and/or undertaking a modern apprenticeship as part of your role.

A modern apprenticeship is a combined package of work and training. Through the schemes available you will gain a professional qualification, practical experience, and the broader skills required to develop in your current role and pave the way for your future career.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.