Enterprise Architect

Eligo Recruitment Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced enterprise architect in the United Kingdom to create a consistent architecture within regulated environments. The role requires exceptional stakeholder management skills and involves working closely with internal and external stakeholders. The position is hybrid, with at least one day a week in East Sussex, and starts as a 6-month fixed-term contract with potential for permanence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an enterprise architect within regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to articulate a clear vision.
• Experience with organizationally complex settings and regulatory structures.
• Ability to align technology and data with business strategy.
• Experience developing integrated architecture roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Create a Target Architecture aligned with business strategy.
• Lead architectural initiatives to ensure alignment with IT strategy.
• Develop an integrated architecture roadmap.
• Remove duplication and address current organizational needs.
• Collaborate for higher engagement with stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Enterprise architecture

Vision articulation

Regulatory knowledge

Job description

Overview

We are looking to recruit an experienced enterprise architect who has practical experience of creating a consistent architecture within a business or organisational environment that is subject to substantial regulation. You will be someone who has exceptional stakeholder management skills who creates a clear vision of the target architecture and a Roadmap that gives genuine direction of travel. In this position you will be working closely with internal and external stakeholders in an organisationally complex environment where practical experience of regulatory complex organisations will be an advantage. If successful you will be joining during a period of great change where there is a focus achieving a greater level of organisational integration and engagement with internal and external stakeholders. In this role you will be instrumental in ensuring the technology employed, organisational structure, data, applications and technology tools are aligned to support this key outcome.

Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders across the business to create a Target Architecture that is aligned with the business strategy to enable the business to create the capacity and opportunity to achieve its objectives.
• Lead architectural initiatives with partners to ensure their products and services are aligned with the business and IT strategy, enabling the organisation to be closely aligned with the overall strategy and roadmap.
• Develop an architecture roadmap integrated with the business, data and infrastructure architectures to enable the organisation to achieve its ambitions.
• Contribute to creating an architecture that removes duplication and data silos to address current and future needs of the organisation.
• Collaborate to ensure architecture supports a higher level of organisational integration and engagement with stakeholders.

Qualifications / Experience

• Proven experience as an enterprise architect with practical experience of creating a consistent architecture within regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to articulate a clear vision of the target architecture and roadmap.
• Experience working with internal and external stakeholders in organisationally complex settings; familiarity with regulatory structures is advantageous.
• Ability to align technology, organisational structure, data, applications and tools with the business strategy and outcomes.
• Experience developing architecture roadmaps that integrate with business, data and infrastructure architectures.

Additional Information

This is a hybrid role requiring at least 1 day per week at our client’s office in East Sussex. The initial appointment will be a 6 month fixed term contract with a real prospect of becoming permanent.

Eligo Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Eligo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive and equitable environment for employees and applicants. We actively celebrate and embrace differences, including but not limited to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and disability. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and all will be considered for employment without discrimination. At Eligo Recruitment diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission to ensure every workplace reflects the richness of human diversity