AMS PSR

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has been set up to provide health security for the nation by protecting from infectious disease and external hazards. It will need to take action like no other organisation previously in order to mitigate threats to health before they materialise. UKHSA will be a trusted source of advice to government and to the public.

On behalf of The UK Health Security Agency we are looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect for a 12 month contract. Remote working with occasional travel to London. 

As a Principal Enterprise Architect your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead the continuous evolution of UKHSA’s enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps across business, data, applications, and technology.
• Translate strategic objectives into coherent capability maps, target states, and transition architectures that maximise value and minimise risk.
• Support architecture assurance through Architecture Review Boards, Design Authorities and Technical Councils, ensuring decisions reduce complexity, technical debt, and total cost of ownership.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, service owners, programme directors, and delivery teams, influencing decisions with data driven evidence, options, and trade off analysis.
• Communicate complex architecture topics with clarity, logical structure, and actionable recommendations tailored to the audience ranging from business to technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach solution architects, domain architects, and technical leaders, building a culture of excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Lead architectural risk management, ensuring appropriate controls for security, resilience, data ethics, and compliance in regulated environments.
• Influence and assure architectural integrity across supplier led programmes, including cloud service providers, systems integrators, and delivery partners.

Essential:

• Substantial experience establishing and executing enterprise-wide principles, standards, blueprints, roadmaps, and patterns that drive business value and delivery outcomes.
• Extensive track record shaping and executing digital and data transformation, including business change, legacy modernisation, and cloud first strategies integrating products and services across complex ecosystems.
• Proven experience in architecture governance, design assurance, and decision forums. Able to define controls that enable iterative delivery without stifling innovation.
• Strong strategic mindset, adept at defining target enterprise architecture states, sequencing change, and using data/analytics for evidence driven decision making.
• Dynamic leadership with excellent interpersonal skills. Able to communicate, present, negotiate, and drive impactful change with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to link architecture decisions to business outcomes, benefits, and risks (cost, resilience, operability, sustainability).
• Practical experience implementing EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and modelling notations (e.g., ArchiMate, UML, BPMN) in real world transformation contexts.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability confident 

As a member of the disability confident scheme, UKHSA guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant / commitment

The UK Health Security Agency guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".