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This range is provided by HM Land Registry. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

£66,200 – £83,000 plus 29% pension contribution and Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from a choice of Plymouth, Coventry, Leicester or Nottingham.

Overview

HM Land Registry (HMLR) is undertaking one of the largest digital transformation programmes in government, modernising the systems and services that underpin property ownership in England and Wales. As Lead Enterprise Architect, you’ll play an important role in shaping and embedding HMLR’s technology strategy whilst ensuring that architecture, business objectives and delivery are fully aligned to drive value, sustainability and innovation across the organisation.

As the centrepiece of the Customer First programme, you will simplify how customers interact with the organisation, improve communication, and modernise the underpinning technology. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, bringing structure to complex problems and aligning business and technology capabilities to support transformation. Enterprise Architects are central to guiding strategic decision‑making, ensuring reuse, scalability and value for money while promoting transparency, collaboration and innovation.

Main responsibilities

• Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk – ensuring a strong connection between strategy, architecture and execution.
• Provide strategic architectural direction, impact analysis and assurance across the design to delivery process by understanding the organisation’s ecosystem and its interdependencies.
• Establish and own the architectural vision and definition for business capabilities, initiatives or technologies (including reference architectures and principles) by collaborating with organisational stakeholders.
• Contribute to and provide regular strategic assessments on HMLR’s Technology Strategy and Technology Health Framework, carrying out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation.
• Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes, fostering, promoting and maturing enterprise architecture in HMLR.

Essential skills

• Knowledge of architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
• Experience developing solutions to complex problems through software/application design.
• Experience designing projects and guiding them from design through delivery phases.
• Ability to assess the impact of technical change on people, process, technology and data.
• Understanding of the commercial impacts of technology implementation and adoption.
• Top‑down thinking and structured, logical decomposition of problems using appropriate modelling techniques and languages.
• Commercial skills in developing contracts and managing suppliers.
• Leading, managing and mentoring technical people.

Location

Expectation is to be working from the advertised office 60 % of your time across the month (typically 3 days a week). Hours are flexible and condensed hours are an option. Available office locations: Plymouth, Nottingham, Leicester and Coventry.

Benefits

• Civil Service Grade 7: £66,200 – £83,000. Capability reviews take place annually.
• Annual leave of 28.5 days paid holiday during each holiday year plus 8 public holidays.
• Clear progression pathway, including personalised training and development plans with expensed accreditations.
• Flexi‑time scheme.
• Opportunity to work condensed hours.
• Social and sports club.
• Employee assistance programme for counselling and support.
• Interest‑free loan for season tickets.
• Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Strong inclusive culture with continuous learning.

Further information

• Please apply with a CV that provides evidence against the essential skills.
• HMLR does not hold a UKVI Skilled Worker License sponsor and is unable to sponsor for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you are a strategic and collaborative technology leader with a passion for solving complex enterprise challenges, influencing senior stakeholders and shaping large‑scale digital transformation, this is an opportunity to make a real impact. Apply now or contact Zee in complete confidence.

Contact: zee@inspirepeople.net | 020 7871 8556