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    Enterprise Architect - Manchester, United Kingdom - The University of Manchester

    The University of Manchester
    The University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom

    4 weeks ago

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    Description

    We are looking to appoint an Enterprise Architect to join our existing architecture team within ITS Strategy & Architecture. The team is responsible for architectural design & governance, and translating ITS strategy into design principles, standards and guidance. It leads in shaping understanding and definition of University IT need. ITS Strategy & Architecture is a specialised team with roles across information architecture, solution architecture, business analysis and business architecture.

    The role will initially be assigned to work within our Evolve programme to provide the University with stable and highly available IT services that enable our current and future needs. The primary focus of this role will be to work within our "Colleague and Student Compute" and "Environments" workstreams.

    Colleague and Student Compute

    • An improved experience for students in the PC cluster environments and a more robust service for colleagues.
    • A new PC cluster provisioning service, including upgraded hardware, provisioning technologies, and a strategy for PC clusters linked to the Teaching and Learning strategy.
    • Processes for preparing and issuing new University-managed devices to colleagues and postgraduate researchers using automation technology.
    • Stronger links between IT Services and the Teaching and Learning community for colleague and student computing services.

    Environments:

    • Delivering on-demand, high availability, reusable, stable and managed environments utilising industry-standard tools.
    • On-demand & Automated builds for environments for our core systems.
    • Improved release management & data obfuscation technologies & processes.
    • Robust guidelines, standards and governance.

    The person

    You will be a highly engaging and customer-focused individual who possesses an enthusiasm for working within the largest University in the UK. Good engagement, collaboration and influencing skills are a must as this will ensure cross University buy in to our proposed strategies and gain stakeholder support for our strategic solutions. You'll have good technical skills, knowledge and experience gained across a range of applications, technologies and data. As a great communicator, you'll be able to use your experience to help others, giving guidance and support to a diverse range of people in realizing and implementing solutions.You'll be comfortable working within a complex, heavily integrated system landscape. Experience with TOGAF, SAFe or other architectural frameworks would also be desirable.

    You'll lead the creation and maintenance of target enterprise architecture, developing roadmaps for the overall target state of the IT estate. You'll translate ITS strategy into design principles, standards and guidance and ensuring our IT estate is managed against these standards through the ITS Technical Design Authority. You'll contribute to specific programmes of work and projects by designing and guiding solutions enabling change to IT services, working with Engineering teams and suppliers through the project lifecycle and using agreed processes and governance to evolve and agree designs from options through to implementation.

    What you will get in return:

    • Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
    • Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
    • Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
    • Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
    • Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

    As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

    Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

    Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

    Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

    Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to

    Any CV's submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

    Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

    Name: Philip Hornby

    Email:

    General enquiries:

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    Technical support:

    This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

    Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.


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