Enterprise Architect

Advance TRS; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the United Kingdom is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead the architecture vision, facilitate change, and ensure alignment with business strategies. Responsibilities include guiding decision-making in technology and data, collaborating across teams, and establishing architectural standards. Candidates should have TOGAF and ISEB certifications, along with strong communication and leadership skills. The position offers a hybrid work model and an opportunity to influence significant organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Identify priorities for change to enable delivery at pace.
• Own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps.
• Consult and support collaboration across the business.
• Guide the organisation in making business, technology, and data decisions.
• Establish architectural principles, policies, and standards.

Skills

Architecture for the whole context

Architecture Communication

Commercial Perspective

Community Collaboration

Making Architectural Decisions

Enterprise Architecture

Problem Definition and Shaping

Education

TOGAF

ISEB

ITIL Certification

IT4IT Certification

COBIT Certification

Job description

Job Details

Role: Enterprise Architect - 3 roles available

Headcount: 3

Contract Length: 12 months minimum

Location: Wiltshire / Portsmouth / Fareham - hybrid with occasional travel to site.

Responsibilities

Minimum Requirement: Enterprise architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. In this role, you will:

• Identify priorities for change to enable delivery at pace
• Lead and influence the delivery of cross‑cutting capabilities that enable change
• Own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states
• Consult and support collaboration across the business
• Understand the organisation’s ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures
• Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes
• Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability to achieve value for money and reduce risk
• Establish architectural principles, policies and standards
• Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy
• Develop the architecture community
• Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation

Skills and Experience

• Architecture for the whole context. Assess how trends in society and industry practices might impact the organisation. Work with people outside of your organisation to inform policies, strategies and standards. Anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architectural work. Coach others in identifying important trends.
• Architecture Communication. Communicate with technical and non‑technical stakeholders at all levels, and across organisations, using architecture communication techniques. Mediate between people in difficult architectural discussions. Gain support from business and technical stakeholders for architectural initiatives with high levels of risk, impact and complexity. Coach and support others in architecture communication.
• Commercial Perspective. Identify appropriate contractual frameworks and approaches. Identify, evaluate and select appropriate suppliers.
• Community Collaboration. Solve and unblock issues between teams or departments at the highest level. Coach the organisation on team dynamics and conflict resolution, while also building and growing the community.
• Making Architectural Decisions. Make and guide architectural design decisions characterised by high levels of risk and complexity. Identify and address architectural risks across the organisation or wider government. Lead and evolve architectural governance and assurance. Represent architectural governance as part of wider governance, for example, legal or commercial.
• Enterprise Architecture. Lead others designing architectures defining the technology, people, process and other elements needed to achieve organisation objectives. Work with others beyond the organisation to influence organisational structures, technology, people and processes to achieve objectives. Ensure organisation‑wide changes align with the architectural strategy.
• Problem Definition and Shaping. Lead the framing of a problem characterised by high complexity, complication, or risk so that a solution can be created. Coach others in defining problems and describing appropriate options for solutions. Help others challenge requirements and assumptions and identify opportunities when defining problems and solution options.

Qualifications

TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) and one of the following:

• ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Certification
• IT4IT Certification
• COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) Certification

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.