Senior Enterprise Architect

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Enterprise Architect to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Senior Enterprise Architect, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 30 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

Join us at a point where strategic change, enterprise thinking and capability development come together. As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you will work across the Met Office to shape future ways of working, influence major change initiatives and help translate strategy into practical outcomes.

This role offers an exciting route into Enterprise Architecture for applicants from business analysis, project and change management, product design and technology related backgrounds who want to work at organisational scale and help shape the future of the Met Office.

Your key duties:

• Support enterprise vision and roadmap development by translating strategy into future initiatives, operating models and architectural direction.
• Work across business and technical domains to help align business, data, application and technology changes.
• Provide architecture governance and assurance through design reviews, principles, guardrails and risk management activities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to shape change, identify capability gaps and support investment decisions.
• Contribute to architecture practice and continuous improvement through knowledge sharing, community participation and development of ways of working.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024 and 2025 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

As our Senior Enterprise Architect, your total reward package will be up to £65,568 annually, which includes:

• £43,081 base pay
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £5,300 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2026 until March 2027 in your monthly pay
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

Strategic Thinking and Enterprise Perspective: You can translate business strategy, outcomes and priorities into future capabilities, operating models or enterprise direction, bringing evidence-based thinking aligned with Experts by Nature value. [Example: Mapped strategy to future capabilities] (Lead Criteria)

Working Across Business and Technical Domains: You have experience working across business, data and technology change activities to create joined-up outcomes, reflecting We're Better Together value through collaboration and shared understanding. [Example: Linked business process and data changes]

Influencing Decisions and Shaping Change: You can engage stakeholders, challenge constructively and help shape strategic decisions across teams, portfolios or domains. [Example: Influenced strategic change decisions]

Applying Governance, Assurance and Structured Thinking: You apply analysis, governance or assurance activities to improve decision quality, reduce risk and support informed outcomes, demonstrating Experts by Nature value. [Example: Provided assurance for change activity]

Contributing to Communities and Improving Ways of Working: You contribute to communities, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement, demonstrating We're Better Together value by supporting colleagues and improving practice. [Example: Improved analysis and architecture practices]

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 07/06/2026 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 15/06/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact us at: careers@metoffice.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: info@csc.gov.uk