Award of SGDP 2022-16 - Enterprise Data Architect

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Our Vision for Scotland is to have a world leading digital planning system that helps connect people with their places to deliver a prosperous, green and fair country. The Strategy establishes a framework of Five Missions  Mission 1: Unlock the value of planning data  Mission 2: Deliver an end-to-end digital planning experience  Mission 3: Create the conditions for digital to flourish  Mission 4: Use digital tools to drive collaboration and engagement  Mission 5: Embed a culture of digital innovation Scotland’s planning sector is ready for change. It is ready to look forward and become digitally enabled, to help planning realise its full potential. This bold vision for digital describes a way forward that is both aspiring and achievable for Scotland’s planning system and by working alongside policy reform will deliver real change. It sets a long-term, compelling ambition for a Scotland embracing the opportunities digital brings. Our Vision reflects the key role digital will play in ensuring the planning service becomes an enabler of sustainable development, supporting our net zero interests and bringing people together to deliver great places. We require an Enterprise Data Architect to lead on the design and development of a new Cross Service Data Framework which will support the new Planning Scotland Gateway portal bringing the services, tools and data together as a single point of entry to information and services. The Cross Service Data Framework will unlock the value of data in the digital planning system. The Planning Scotland Gateway will become the home for the new digital services, data and tools used in a future planning service. It will surface these to users including citizens, investors, developers, communities, architects and planning agents or other public sector bodies. The Enterprise Data Architect is responsible for:  the definition of the SG Digital Planning data strategy, and will describe why and how the data that drives Digital Planning will be managed and used. This is a green field opportunity to design and develop a new data solution for Digital Planning  working with overall Data Lead in Digital Planning to commission a supplier who will prepare the SG Planning Data Strategy  oversee the design of multiple data models and have a broad understanding of how each model fulfils the needs of the business  provide advice to delivery project teams and oversee the management of the full data product life cycle  have responsibility for making sure that Digital Planning systems are designed in accordance with the data architecture  Setting out the overarching data architectural principles for the portfolio  Influencing the planning sector in Scotland to adopt, interoperability frameworks, and data standards;  Managing internal teams, suppliers and delivery partners to ensure their technical and quality obligations are met;.  Communicating complex data concepts to non-technical audiences;  Ensuring solutions comply with prevailing legislation, guidance, and organisational values.