Enterprise Architect, IT Services
The University of Manchester is, a truly global institution with a reputation for education and innovation that resonates across the world, offering a wide range of courses and boasting outstanding facilities in the centre of Manchester.
It is highly respected as a centre of teaching excellence and innovative research. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students, it has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries. Manchester’s industrial and cultural heritage is mirrored by the achievements of some of the University’s most celebrated names and the computer revolution started here in June 1948 when a machine built by Tom Kilburn and Sir Freddie Williams, known affectionately as ‘The Baby’, ran its first stored program. The celebrated wartime codebreaker Alan Turing worked on this computer during his time at Manchester.
The University is committed to world-class research, an outstanding learning and student experience and social responsibility in everything it does, making one of the largest investments in facilities ever seen at a UK university, with £750 million spent so far and a further £1 billion to follow by 2022. Its goal is to become one of the world’s leading Universities by 2020.
About IT Services
IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast moving department, focusing on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers. Visit our website to find out more about our organisation and our values. You can also watch a video about why our people like working here.
• IT Services: About us
• Working at The University of Manchester
The Team
As part of ITS, the Strategy & Architecture team leads definition and agreement of ITS strategy and shaping understanding of University IT need, translating this into standards, roadmaps and solutions for our IT estate and the services this enables.
The strategy and architecture function is a specialised team with skills in business architecture, business analysis, information architecture, solution architecture and infrastructure architecture, accountable for:
Supporting definition and agreement with stakeholders of an ITS strategic plan, principles and an operating model design that can enable the success of ITS
Architectural governance, translating ITS strategy into design principles, standards and guidance
Business architecture services to the organisation to review the effectiveness of current capabilities, supporting definition of opportunities for change, specifying requirements, and supporting management of the University change portfolio
Target enterprise architecture, realised as designs for solutions that span our estate and roadmaps for the development of applications, technology and services
This Role
Reporting directly to the Strategy & Architecture Manager, you will be a highly engaging and customer-focused individual who possesses an enthusiasm for working within the largest University in the UK.
In support of a number of major change programmes within the University you’ll be able to demonstrate your experience of being able to define, develop and implement organisation wide IT strategies and large scale IT solutions, in line with good practice, ensuring value is delivered the University.
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 change management and project lifecycle and using agreed processes and governance to evolve and agree designs from options through to implementation.
Good engagement, collaboration and influencing skills are a must as this will ensure cross University buy in to our proposed strategies and gain University funding and 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.
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
Blended working arrangements may be considered
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Adam Grant
Email: adam.grant@manchester.ac.uk
General enquiries:
Email: hrservices@manchester.ac.uk
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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.
