Senior Enterprise Architect

Role Overview

• Define components of, implement and govern enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and standards across client engagements.
• Support development of target operating models, capability maturity assessments, and transformation roadmaps.
• Ensure alignment between business goals, IT strategy, and solution delivery through architecture governance.
• Act as an advisor to client executives, helping them navigate change and technology evolution.
• Collaborate with sales and account teams to identify enterprise-level challenges and shape transformational architecture strategies.
• Support architecture visioning and strategy sessions with client executives and technology leaders.
• Develop high-level enterprise architectures, capability maps, and transformation roadmaps during pre-sales engagements.
• Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, and executive presentations that clearly articulate enterprise value.
• Develop and enhance enterprise architecture methodologies, tools, and reusable templates.
• Mentor consultants and peers, internally and in clients, in enterprise architecture best practices and advocating architectural practice.
• Contribute to the development of consulting offerings related to architecture strategy, governance, and transformation.
• Lead internal knowledge-sharing forums and communities of practice focused on enterprise architecture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in solution/enterprise architecture or a combination of strategic IT leadership and architecture roles.
• Strong background in developing enterprise-wide architecture strategies, reference architectures, and capability models.
• Proven experience aligning technology with business strategy across large, complex organisations, and delivery of architecture projects to achieve strategic goals.
• Helping build organisational maturity in architecture practice from varying current levels of capability and internal team skills.
• Presented and been involved in TDA (Technical Design Authorities) to define infrastructure, technology architectures, networking and industry security standards and compliance. Depth in some domains with working knowledge in all.
• Understanding across architecture domains including business, data, application, technology and infrastructure architecture.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including with C-level audiences.
• Strong consulting background with experience in client-facing delivery and strategic advisory roles.
• Familiar with standards including ISO27001, ITIL V4 and Cyber Essentials+ from an enterprise architecture perspective.
• Architecture mapping, as-is to-be and led architect design from discovery to implementation.
• Has provided strategic direction and overseen the integration of emerging new technology platforms including cloud platforms, new enterprise applications, big data platforms and tools for advanced analytics including AI/machine learning/data science that drive business value.
• A growth mindset
• AI curious and ready to embrace opportunities. Desirable
• Experience with enterprise architecture tools (e.g., Bizzdesign, Sparx EA, etc)
• Familiarity with TOGAF, DAMA, or other recognized architecture frameworks.
• Industry-specific architecture knowledge (e.g. public sector (GDS Service standard), utilities, healthcare).
• Certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure, or business architecture certifications.
• Experience leading enterprise transformations involving cloud migration, data strategy, or operating model redesign.
• Experience across a range of related technology disciplines such as Agile, Product Management, DevOps, Cyber Security, User Centred Design, Design Thinking amongst others – we are looking for someone to connect and add value across disciplines and teams skill sets

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Cyber Security

Benefits

• Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days (note that 3 days are held for Christmas holidays)
• Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday
• Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave
• Cycle to work schemes
• Gym & retail discounts
• Regular social events/activities
• A range of other benefits from our flexible benefits package