Cyber Enterprise Architect

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (Hatfield)

Job summary

Computacenter UK is seeking an experienced Cyber Enterprise Architect to collaborate with the CISO and CTO teams to craft a compelling cyber strategy, vision and roadmap. You will support Solution Architecture and Delivery to realise outcomes aligned with business goals.

You will maintain current and target views of the Enterprise Architecture, enabling capability roadmaps and portfolio prioritisation while ensuring governance and tooling are fit for purpose.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Cyber Enterprise Architect.
• Track record creating and embedding technology strategies within large transformations.
• Effective communication bridging technical and business terminology.

Responsibilities

• Lead creation and evolution of Cyber Tech Strategies adopted by CISO and stakeholders.
• Maintain current/target enterprise architecture views to deliver business and technology strategies.
• Support capability roadmaps and portfolio prioritisation for change initiatives.
• Establish architecture governance and tooling to support Solution Architecture and GIS teams.
• Collaborate with Solution Architecture to ensure Tech Strategy is viable within EA Principles/Guardrails.
• Support annual/quarterly business and portfolio planning to align with tech strategies.
• Ensure EA tool information is up to date and comprehensive.
• Develop tools and techniques to support the EA practice.

Skills

Cyber EA

TOGAF/SAFe

Stakeholder comms

Strategy development

Security domain

Job description

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Location: UK - Hatfield | Job-ID: 219718 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Cyber Security

Life on the team

Hybrid - Hatfield 3 days per week

At Computacenter UK, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture that emphasises diversity, inclusivity, and collaboration. We are committed to building supportive and rewarding relationships, celebrating success, and treating everyone with respect. Our focus is on putting customers first, keeping our promises, and considering long-term sustainability in all our decisions.

Computacenter has an ambitious transformation agenda, and we are looking to build a new Enterprise Architecture function to work alongside an already existing Solution Architecture team to support this.

We are currently seeking an experienced Cyber Enterprise Architect to work closely with our CISO and CTO teams to create a compelling vision, strategy and roadmap for Cyber security, and then support our Solution Architecture and Delivery Teams to deliver the desired outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Lead the creation and evolution of Cyber Tech Strategies that are adopted by the CISO and other business and technology stakeholders.
• Create and maintain a current and target view of our Enterprise Architecture to deliver our business and technology strategies.
• Support business and technology change through capability roadmaps that inform Portfolio prioritisation.
• Establish and assure effective architecture governance and tooling to support Solution Architecture and other GIS teams.
• Work closely with our Solution Architecture function ensuring that Tech Strategy is viable and new ‘solutions’ can be architected within the EA Principles/Guardrails and still deliver the desired outcomes to the business areas.
• Support annual and quarterly business and portfolio planning processes to ensure that the initiatives and plans are consistent with the agreed tech strategies.
• Ensuring our EA tool information is up to date and has the required breadth and depth.
• Support the development of architecture tools and techniques to support others in the practise.

What you’ll need

• Strong experience as a Cyber Enterprise Architect.
• A track record of creating and embedding technology strategies either within a business domain or with in a large-scale transformation programme.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business terminology.
• Ability to produce quality EA models and artifacts that drive effective decision making.
• Ability to demonstrate alignment of technical decisions with business goals and value delivery.
• A continuous learning mindset and to keep pace with industry and market trends.
• Ability to use your skill and experience to create tools and content that will aid the development of the emerging EA practise.
• Experience of following structured methodologies for consistency and risk reduction, e.g. TOGAF, SAFe and system development lifecycles e.g. waterfall, agile, DevOps & DevSecOps.
• Ability to build trusted and respect as a ‘thought leader’ who can influence and when appropriate persuade technology and business leaders.
• To be motivated by leading and driving the team to deliver upon the business strategy.
• Ability to be technology neutral: unbiased towards any specific technology or vendor choice, entirely motivated by getting to ‘value & outcomes’.
• Ability to propose and effectively estimate proposed solution commercials.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Proven analytical, planning, organisational and technology skills.
• SC clearance or SC clearance eligible.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 21,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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