Enterprise Architect

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. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students, it has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries.

The University is committed to world-class research, an outstanding learning and student experience and social responsibility in everything it does.  It is 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.

About IT Services

IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students, and researchers. 

Find out more about our organisation and values:

• IT Services: About us and ITS Practice Charter
• Benefits of working at The University of Manchester

The role

The University of Manchester is undergoing a number of transformation projects, one area within scope of this is our People and Organisational Development (P&OD) directorate, who have a programme of individual work streams to review people, systems, process and procedures and their structure.

We are looking to appoint an Enterprise Architect for a period of 12 months to work within the programme to make recommendations on how best to stabilise the current system whilst the programme takes place.  Then analyse, architect, design, cost, and plan solutions, and ensure delivery of the P&OD strategy. This will require you to complete the following

• Re-define the People & OD Service Model;
• Develop People & OD Capabilities;
• Modernise People & OD Practice, Policy, and process;
• Implement a New People & OD System;
• Provision of accurate People Data & Analytics;

The person

The Enterprise Architect we are seeking to recruit should have the following skills:

• Significant experience in analysis and creation of architectural diagrams
• Experience of working with estates that have complex integrations
• The ability to undertake a gap analysis
• Confident in making solutions recommendations
• Experience with a variety of database technologies including Jobtrain and ResourceLink
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Desirable skills:

• Experience of Oracle database technologies including Oracle Financials and Oracle CRM
• Experience of working in a Higher Education Institute

When addressing the person specification criteria in your application for this role, please ensure you make reference to the specific role requirements above.

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: Sally Horridge

Email: sally.horridge@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

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.