Technical Design Authority

Technical Design Authority

Location - London/Surrey hybrid

Salary - £65,000 - £85,000 + DV bonus + excellent package

Clearance – eDV clearance required

We’re looking for a Design Authority to work closely with senior leaders, helping shape strategic transformation by aligning business goals with changes in people, process, data, and technology. You’ll develop and maintain high-level models and blueprints that support business strategy and serve as a Technical Design Authority throughout the programme lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with stakeholders to understand business strategy and capability maturity.
• Define target business architectures and roadmaps aligned to strategic goals.
• Lead the development of integrated models across people, processes, and information domains.
• Guide delivery teams by socialising architecture artefacts and ensuring alignment through all phases.
• Participate in governance forums and provide architectural direction and decision support.
• Support business process redesign, transformation, and assurance activities.
• Help build internal architecture capability and support business development efforts.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to business architecture to keep programmes on track.

Desirable Experience and Skills:

• Experience delivering architecture in UK Government or Law Enforcement environments.
• Strong consulting background with the ability to deliver at pace.
• Expertise in enterprise architecture, design frameworks, and modelling techniques.
• Skilled in developing TOMs, blueprints, and transformation roadmaps.
• Familiar with modern EA patterns and service/system-oriented architecture.
• Proficiency with TOGAF, MODAF, Archimate, BPMN, UML, and EA tools (e.g. MooD, BizzDesign, Enterprise Architect).

Clearance required – Due to the nature of the clients’ work, you are required to hold an eDV level security clearance

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