Manager – Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

• Provide strategic technology advice to senior client stakeholders such as CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and business directors, clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
• Shape major change and transformation programmes in collaboration with client executives, contributing architectural insight to business cases, options analyses, and investment decisions.
• Engage directly with clients, onsite and remotely, to address complex and strategically important technology challenges, applying both deep technical expertise and pragmatic delivery experience.
• Act as an authoritative voice on technology direction at executive and programme levels, influencing long‑term technology strategy and aligning decisions to business outcomes.
• Define and maintain the client’s target enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operating models and regulatory context.
• Develop and own multi‑year technology roadmaps spanning applications, data, infrastructure and security.
• Establish and govern architecture principles, standards and reference models that drive consistency, re-use and architectural coherence across portfolios.
• Lead enterprise‑level architecture assessments and gap analyses, identifying rationalisation, modernisation and cost‑optimisation opportunities within the technology estate.
• Oversee the coherence of multiple solution architectures, ensuring they integrate into a unified, scalable, secure and strategically aligned enterprise landscape.
• Create enterprise ‑ wide architectural artefacts (e.g. capability maps, application and data landscapes, integration blueprints) to support decision ‑ making and transformation planning.
• Chair or play a leading role in architecture governance forums, such as the Squarcle Digital Governance Board, assuring all designs align with enterprise standards, NCSC 'Secure by Design' principles, and / or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, assuring solution designs against agreed enterprise standards, principles and long term strategic direction.
• Manage multi-stream digital delivery within regulated, high-security Defence environments, leading teams of 5-15 consultants and ensuring solutions are designed for scale and resilience.
• Collaborate with delivery and programme teams to ensure architecture is translated into executable plans and that anticipated business and technology benefits are realised.
• Support risk and assurance activities by reviewing major programmes, identifying enterprise-level architectural risks and dependencies, and ensuring they are managed effectively.
• Ensure multi‑domain non‑functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, and data governance, are designed into and validated within proposed solutions.
• Mentor G1-G3 consultants.
• Develop and maintain reusable enterprise assets (frameworks, templates, reference architectures, secure patterns, agentic AI models) for use across engagements.
• Support business development by contributing high‑quality enterprise architecture insight to bids, proposals, and client presentations, helping to shape compelling and differentiated client solutions.
• Deliver robust architectural quality assurance across all deliverables, ensuring they meet agreed standards, principles, and best‑practice expectations.

Requirements

• Active Security Clearance (or capable of achieving SC).
• Degree-level qualification (2:1 or above) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
• Significant practical enterprise architecture experience (5+ years) at senior/strategic level, shaping technology strategy and roadmaps across complex organisations.
• Strong background in digital transformation, cloud adoption and modernisation of legacy estates (applications, data and infrastructure).
• Proven experience working in a consulting or professional services environment, engaging directly with senior client stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of common EA frameworks and practices (TOGAF primarily, plus NAF, MODAF, etc.), and how to apply them pragmatically.
• Track record of leading architecture governance, standards definition and assurance across multiple programmes or portfolios.
• Experience developing and maintaining enterprise-wide artefacts such as capability maps, application and data landscapes, and integration blueprints.
• Solid knowledge of cloud platforms (primarily Azure, but good knowledge and skills on AWS or GCP will be considered), integration patterns, data platforms and cybersecurity principles at an enterprise level.
• Ability to apply the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework (or equivalent) to design and review cloud workloads across reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and performance efficiency.
• Evidence of influencing major investment decisions through options analysis, business cases and total cost of ownership assessments.
• Experience coordinating and aligning multiple solution architectures to a coherent target enterprise architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop solution architects and senior technologists, building architecture capability within teams.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• Generous leave package 26 days of annual leave (including your birthday!) plus UK bank holidays
• increasing to 27 days after three years, and 28 after seven years
• You’ll also get five extra days for your five and 10-year anniversaries
• Additional leave for members of the Reserve Forces and CFAV.
• Private medical insurance Provided once you’ve completed your probation.
• Recognition and rewards £1,000 referral bonus for successful hires
• Performance-related awards
• Milestone and life-event hampers to celebrate life’s big moments
• Development & learning Annual training week abroad
• Funding for qualifications that benefit both you and the business
• Travel & wellbeing Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted travel through funded railcards
• Pension Our pension provider is NOW Pensions, pension contributions are 3% employer and 5% employee
• We review our benefits regularly to ensure they stay competitive and meaningful
• so this list may evolve as we grow.