Senior Enterprise Business Architect

The opportunity to drive and manage technology enabled transformational change.
Hybrid working practices in place

About Our Client

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

Stretching just over eight square miles, Westminster is one of only two London boroughs to hold city status.

The city is divided into 20 wards, each electing three councillors. As home to the UK government, the monarchy and some of the world's most iconic landmarks, it is a city of great economic, historic and cultural significance but not without challenges.

The diverse needs of our residents are at the heart of our ambitions for delivering high-quality services and improving the city. Starting with this focus on need, we are determined to enable improved outcomes by offering a brilliant, connected digital experience to every resident, business, and visitor.

Our teams work across the Council, and with our wider partners to lead our journey to being a Smart City.

Westminster's ambition to be truly innovative in its approach to serving residents, businesses, and visitors is central to the council's plans for a smarter sustainable urban future.

By demonstrating how smart innovation can be integrated into the Council's daily operations and organisational culture, as well as contributing to the wider developmental aims of the Borough's plans, Westminster City Council can establish itself as a global leader in leveraging technology.

Our Culture:

At Westminster, we have a culture of openness, transparency and integrity - where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and develop to be the very best. The Westminster Way is the council's commitment to our staff and is underpinned by three pillars:

Personal Development:

Everyone has talent.
We want everyone to thrive at Westminster and so we take the time to nurture talent - coaching and mentoring our people to be the very best.

Value our People and Diversity:

Everyone is valued.
We embrace our differences, to bring new perspectives to the future challenges of our city.

The Westminster Way of Working:

Everyone is a leader.
At Westminster, we encourage everyone to develop themselves to have a growth mindset and an outward-looking approach to provide the best service to our residents, businesses and visitors. We champion modern and agile working and an open and transparent outlook to the way we work.

Working in Westminster is an opportunity to step into a place which is known worldwide, create something special and make an impact for our customers.

Job Description

The role is a pivotal enabler of our change agenda and will help empower the organisation to deliver on its ambitions.

You will take responsibility for the enterprise architecture and design of our transformation roadmaps, target operating models (TOM) and enterprise capability models to support transformation planning and execution in line with the organisation's strategy.

In addition, you will work with other architectural domains to ensure key architectural decisions are agreed upon and incorporated into the overall enterprise architecture and support the establishment of an architectural roadmap, while supporting multiple directorates to agree on the vision and strategy for change, ensuring all business value is understood and transparent.

Key responsibilities:

Foster a culture that promotes horizon scanning, experimentation, and creativity, thus enabling and encouraging innovation.
Assist strategy and business leaders in understanding, applying, capitalising on, and operationalising existing, new, and emerging technologies such as AI / Machine Learning and IoT, to transform and optimise business and operating models.
Engage with stakeholders at all levels to establish a comprehensive framework of principles, standards, processes, and documentation that supports and integrates enterprise architecture within the council.
Utilise effective communication and collaboration to share the strategic architectural vision and approach.
Collaborate with decision-makers to align architectural initiatives with organisational priorities.
Lead the development of blueprints and roadmaps to establish business and IT investment priorities that align with the council's strategic ambitions.
Cultivate an inclusive and high-performing team by setting and recognising high standards, providing mentorship, and promoting self-leadership.
Embrace an agile and entrepreneurial mindset to drive rapid change within the council.

The Successful Applicant

Experience required:

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience.
Five or more years of business experience with direct responsibility for strategy formulation and/or translation, business analysis/analytics, business architecture and/or program management.
Three or more years of solution architecture experience covering both business and technology architecture solutions, including IT products, services and capabilities.
Experience facilitating, leading, or being a part of, multi-disciplined, high-performance fusion teams.
Experience developing and monitoring delivery of efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems
Skilled in creating strategic transformation plans and roadmaps covering Business, Data, and Technology.
Proficient in various organisational design, planning, and architectural methods, including Design Thinking.
Experienced in aligning and complimenting architectural practices and governance with agile delivery.
Skilled in identifying and tackling strategic and operational issues using analytical and creative skills.
Proficient in complex planning, with the ability to handle ambiguity and contribute to multiple streams of programs and initiatives.
Experience in fostering a culture of learning and maintaining a high-performing workforce.
Well-informed about industry trends such as IOT, AI/Machine Learning and Event-Driven Architecture.

Demonstrable Characteristics:

A consummate diplomat capable of understanding and navigating the personalities, obstacles and politics of the organisation.
A proven ability to empathise with end users, colleagues and stakeholders, combined with a passion for good relationship building, openness and honesty.
Able to communicate, influence and persuade - both business and IT leaders, as well as peers. Uses the language of business leaders.
Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders, and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence.
Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
Organisationally savvy - Experienced at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic manner.
Unbiased towards products, technologies and vendors used or considered.
Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity, while respecting freedom and responsibility.
Motivated by long-term results and achieving targeted business outcomes.
Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, and design and systems thinking.
Able to inspire people about your profession, about the work of your team and about the council itself.
Can write and communicate strategy on highly technical topics succinctly.

What's on Offer

Westminster City Council are looking for candidates who want to further their career, alongside delivering great services for residents. As an employer of choice, Westminster City Council offer an extensive benefits package including:

Competitive salary package to be discussed on a one-to-one basis.
Generous local government-defined pension benefit scheme. (https://www.wccpensionfund.co.uk)
31 days Annual leave plus an additional day for your birthday + Bank holidays.
Purchase up to 10 days of additional leave.
Discount schemes (Vivup, Victoria Card).
Employee Assistance programme.
Active Westminster card for free swimming in Westminster and discounted Gym membership.
Paid volunteering days·
A healthy work-life balance for all employees with a strong flexible working culture.

Contact

Rutesh Shah

Quote job ref

JN-052023-6054594

Phone number

+442072692314