Principal Technical Enterprise Architect - SC Cleared at Ministry of Justice, London, £Contract Rate

Note: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position, (and speed at which we require a postholder in situ), preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance

The Synergy Programme represents a step change in how corporate functions across MoJ, HO, Defra and DWP will be delivered. Synergy will be the replacement system for SOP. The programme's purpose is to enable better public services through better ways of working, supporting more than a quarter of a million officials and public servants who deliver some of the most vital and high-risk public services. Synergy's mission is to make working lives easier and help deliver crucial public services by providing systems that are smarter, faster, more intuitive, and are designed around the needs of the user.

This role will be responsible for leading the delivery of the Technical workstream for MoJ relating to Shared Services Hub, ERP, Ask Synergy, Integration and more ensuring we feed into and leading on design.

Responsibilities:

• Face off to the Justice Digital organisation including the CDIO the Director of Technology and their supporting BaU teams.
• Face off to the Core Synergy Digital teams and represent the MoJ at forums such as Digital and Data Working Group
• Act as a point of contact for the MoJ onboarding to a new Oracle Cloud ERP solution
• Ensure optimisation of MoJ requirements within the new Oracle Cloud ERP solution
• Review, feedback and assure Synergy documentation ensuring MoJ governance followed where appropriate
• Support the transformation from current on-premise Oracle ERP to Cloud ERP. Provide assurance that the transformation fits with the wider technology and roadmap for MOJ digital.
• Ensure an understanding of the current and new systems and integrations, to provide a roadmap for MoJ to ensure services are optimised across the estate.
• Where applicable, determine what changes and enhancements could be introduced to allow the new system delivers the best outcomes for the MoJ end users and systems integration activities.
• Be the point of contact at the Oracle Technology forums with the Synergy suppliers including the core team and Oracle to present and support the MoJ requirements for continuous improvement.
• Lead on product centric components - such as data feeds and migrations into ERP including design and configuration
• Provide updates and reporting on progress, dependencies, planning, RAID etc.

Lead and/or support (not limited to) the following:

• Transition requirements
• Data strategies and alignment
• Integration requirements and management
• Service Management
• Strategic ownership of products and roadmaps
• Functional alignment, from live services through to vendors
• Feed into business change and communications across the cluster
• Testing and QA
• Security and user access

Desirable:

• Experience of delivery within large scale government progs

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, MOJ 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice 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 exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

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.