Enterprise architect

You can:

• show an awareness of government commercial processes
• show an awareness of legal and compliance rules

You can:

• show an awareness of the need to translate technical concepts into non-technical language
• understand what communication is required with internal and external stakeholders

You can:

• understand the work of others and the importance of team dynamics, collaboration and feedback

You can:

• support the translation of business drivers, goals and constraints into business objectives
• work under supervision to define required capabilities and support organisational changes to create operating models that meet business objectives

You can:

• understand technical governance
• participate in the assurance of a service

You can:

• demonstrate a basic understanding of design, technology and data principles
• understand the range of available technology choices

You can:

• recommend decisions and describe the reasoning behind them
• identify and articulate technical disputes between direct peers and local stakeholders

You can:

• show an awareness of the strategic context of your work and why it is important
• support strategic planning

You can:

• understand commercial processes and the appropriate internal contacts within a government department
• understand different sourcing strategies and when to apply them

You can:

• communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics
• be an advocate for the team externally, and can manage differing perspectives

You can:

• contribute to the work of others
• motivate and empower teams
• create the right environment for teams to work in, and can identify the best team makeup depending on the situation
• recognise and deal with issues

You can:

• work with limited direction to translate business drivers, goals and constraints into business objectives
• help to define required capabilities and support organisational changes to create operating models that meet business objectives

You can:

• understand how governance works and what governance is required
• take responsibility for the assurance of a service and know what risks need to be managed

You can:

• demonstrate a working understanding of design, technology and data principles
• understand the variety and complexity of users’ digital needs, and how the product will meet those needs
• show an awareness of assisted digital support and can explain why it’s important
• design services and make decisions to meet user needs

You can:

• make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity, and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
• resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions

You can:

• work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals

You can:

• identify appropriate contractual frameworks and approaches
• identify, evaluate and select appropriate suppliers

You can:

• listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them
• effectively manage stakeholder expectations
• manage active and reactive communication
• support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders

You can:

• work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others
• adapt feedback to ensure it’s effective and lasting
• use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them
• identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses

You can:

• support and advise on the development of a future state architecture aligned to strategy
• lead on the translation of business drivers, goals and constraints into business objectives
• define the capabilities required to create or develop operating models that meet business objectives

You can:

• evolve and define governance
• take responsibility for working with and supporting other staff in wider governance
• assure services across sets of services
• use tools such as standards, guardrails and principles to effectively govern delivery

You can:

• demonstrate an advanced understanding of design, technology and data principles
• identify and implement solutions for assisted digital
• apply knowledge to work with other roles and groups in Government Digital and Data

You can:

• make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity, and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase
• build consensus between services or independent stakeholders

You can:

• define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context
• evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible

You can:

• demonstrate a good understanding of business issues, events and activities, and their short to long term impact
• support defining principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
• effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions
• help to develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings

You can:

• coach others in appropriate commercial, vendor and legal issues

You can:

• mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels
• manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales
• speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government

You can:

• solve and unblock issues between teams or departments at the highest level
• understand the psychology of the team and have strong mediation skills
• coach the organisation on team dynamics and conflict resolution, while also building and growing the community

You can:

• set the direction to develop a future state architecture aligned to strategy
• influence relationships between organisational structures, processes, technology, people and skills within and outside of an enterprise, to achieve transition to the new state

You can:

• understand how technical governance works with wider governance (such as budget)
• assure corporate services by understanding important risks and mitigating them through assurance mechanisms

You can:

• show knowledge of the wider digital economy and advances in technology
• understand Agile working at an organisational level
• create the environment for success
• initiate and support working with other roles and groups in Government Digital and Data

You can:

• make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity
• build consensus between organisations (private or public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders

You can:

• lead the design and implementation of strategy
• direct the evaluation of strategies and policies to ensure business requirements are being met

You can:

• demonstrate a strong understanding of business issues, events and activities and their short to long term impact
• define principles, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements
• effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions and activities
• develop, maintain or update strategy in response to feedback and findings

Commercial perspective

Governance and assurance

Making and guiding decisions

Problem definition and shaping

Making and guiding decisions

Strategic design and business change

Communicating between the technical and non-technical

Community collaboration

Communicating between the technical and non-technical

Community collaboration

Communicating between the technical and non-technical

Community collaboration