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Lead Enterprise Architect – Business

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Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £57,515 – £82,430 (Depending upon assessment)

Closing date: Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 8th March 2026

Number of open roles: 1

Location: Swansea

Grade: Grade 7

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Job summary

Can you shape and lead enterprise and business architecture that translates organisational strategy into clear capabilities, roadmaps and outcomes, influencing decisions at the most senior levels?

If you thrive on working in complex environments, balancing strategic intent with practical delivery and leading architectural thinking that helps organisations change with confidence, we would love to hear from you!

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it’s like working at Driver and Vehicle Licensing

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to join our Architecture function. This role will play a pivotal part in shaping the strategic direction and maturity of business and enterprise architecture across the agency, ensuring that architectural practice effectively supports business strategy, transformation and capability delivery.

As Lead Enterprise Architect you will act as a senior advisor and leader, influencing strategic decision making, guiding architectural practice and supporting cross-functional teams to deliver value. You will work closely with business stakeholders and technical teams to develop and maintain integrated architecture artefacts, business capability models and roadmaps that articulate both current and future state views of the agency’s operations. Your focus will include business architecture, data, information flows and governance, alongside technology and solution architecture.

This is a senior role requiring strong leadership, excellent stakeholder engagement skills and an ability to operate effectively across business, policy and technical communities within the agency.

Responsibilities:

Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across enterprises and seek opportunities for improvement.
Support at least one community or team, or a combination of both.
Find and use best practice and emerging technologies and approaches
Lead teams including enterprise architects and help them understand how to deliver the team’s objectives to meet organisational goals.
Horizon scan for influences or risks.
Support successful delivery of the long-term strategy.
Take a leading role in the overall direction of business and digital capabilities.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

About you

We’re looking for an experienced enterprise architect with a strong focus on business architecture and strategic design
A confident leader able to set direction, influence senior stakeholders and guide architectural decisions
A clear and effective communicator who can explain complex concepts to technical and non technical audiences
A strategic thinker who sees the bigger picture and understands how architecture enables outcomes
Collaborative in approach, with a strong interest in mentoring and developing others

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £57,515 – £82,430, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £16,662 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Passionate, reliable and always willing to push yourself and those around you, you’ll continue to seek improvement in your own role and challenge us too. Because we pride ourselves on how we approach your development. From training courses to specialist skills workshops and opportunities to grow your expertise, we thrive when you thrive. You can find out more about all of the above here alongside a full list of our benefits:

Best in class learning and development tailored to your role 
An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance 
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues 
Generous employer contribution of 28.97%, depending on chosen pension scheme
Digital communities with clear career frameworks
On-site gym plus personal training available (membership applies)
On-site nursery, restaurants and coffee bar 
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
Free Parking.

Working for the DVLA Digital Team

At DVLA, licensing is just the start. Every project you implement, touch and deliver has a ripple effect that’ll wash across the nation. Here the work you’re doing has the capacity to change the way 50 million people interact with our services. As we aim to keep our roads some of the safest in the world, our innovative, transformative digital-led services help optimise a nation of individuals and business every single day.

To see how our people are transforming our digital services, head over to our DVLA Digital Services Blog and, to understand more about the great opportunities and benefits of working at DVLA read our Inside DVLA blog.

How to apply:

The selection process for this role will be:

Stage 1: Sift of CV
Stage 2: Video Interview
Stage 3: Interview and Assessment

Stage 1: CV Sift

For this role you will need to submit a CV. Within your CV please provide detailed evidence of your experience of the following essential criteria:

Significant experience working as a senior enterprise business architect, leading business architecture activities across complex organisations or portfolios

Proven ability to develop and use business architecture artefacts, such as capability models and target operating views, to influence strategic decision making and investment priorities
Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders, translating organisational strategy into coherent architectural direction and roadmaps

Stage 2: Pre-recorded video interview

If at sift your application is successful, you will be invited to complete a pre-recorded video interview.

If you are successful at this stage, you will be invited to a final stage interview and be conducted by DVLA Hiring Managers.

Stage 3 Interview and Assessment
Your assessment will include:

Behaviours

Leadership
Seeing the Big Picture

Technical Skills

Final stage interviews will take place from 23rd March 2026.

Additional Information

This role is full time only. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, the expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at DVLA’s Swansea office.
Visa Sponsorship: DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
This role requires to undergo SC level clearance. For this, you must have at least 5 years continuous residency in the UK.

Nationality requirements:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Pre-employment Checking

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
If your application is successful but you have been dismissed from the Civil Service within the last 12 months, your application could be removed at the pre-employment checking stage.

Extended information can be found on the Civil Service advert.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Job contact :

Name :Zymante Gintalaite
Email :Zymante@inspirepeople.net

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