Enterprise Architect

KBR; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

KBR in Leatherhead, UK, seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide architectural leadership across a multi-disciplinary programme. You will translate strategic objectives into practical architecture solutions and lead the development of end-to-end architectures that align people, processes, and technology.

The role involves close collaboration with senior stakeholders to ensure integration and delivery, with governance artefacts and architecture diagrams produced to support decisions.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, or TOGAF-based operating models.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into practical architecture solutions.
• Experience delivering complex, end-to-end solutions across functions and organisations.
• Proven stakeholder engagement and communication with senior leaders and SMEs.
• Experience creating architecture models, diagrams, and governance artefacts.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a multi-disciplinary programme.
• Translate evolving requirements into end-to-end solutions aligned to people, processes, technology, and delivery.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure integration and strategic alignment.
• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artefacts and governance artefacts.
• Translate requirements and design decisions into deliverable architecture.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder Engagement

Architecture Leadership

End-to-end Solutions

Education

TOGAF / BCS EA Certification

Tools

MODAF

Job description

Salary: £48,000 - 88,000 per year

Requirements

• Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Target Operating Model development.
• Experience designing and delivering complex, end-to-end solutions across multiple functions and organisations.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives and evolving requirements into practical architecture solutions.
• Strong understanding of operating models, business processes, information flows, governance, interfaces, and organisational design.
• Experience identifying and managing dependencies, risks, assumptions, and design conflicts within complex programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including working with senior leaders and specialist SMEs.
• Experience producing architecture models, diagrams, frameworks, and supporting documentation.
• Experience operating within regulated, safety-critical, or high-assurance environments.
• Professional experience within a relevant discipline.
• Enterprise Architecture certification such as TOGAF, BCS Enterprise and Solution Architecture, or equivalent is desirable.
• MODAF experience is advantageous.
• Applicants must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance for this role, which requires UK nationality and a demonstrable five-year footprint of living and working within the UK.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across a multi-disciplinary programme.
• Translate evolving requirements into a coherent, end-to-end solution aligned to people, processes, technology, and operational delivery.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure all elements of the solution integrate effectively and support strategic objectives.
• Lead the development and maintenance of enterprise architecture artefacts.
• Translate complex requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and design decisions into a clear and deliverable solution architecture.
• Align operational, technical, digital, commercial, and supply chain elements to create a cohesive operating model and delivery framework.
• Identify and resolve gaps, overlaps, and dependencies across the developing solution.Establish architecture principles and standards.
• Support the assessment of key design decisions.
• Produce architecture models, diagrams, and governance artefacts.
• Provide challenge and assurance that proposed solutions are practical, scalable, and achievable.

Technologies

• Support
• Security
• TOGAF
• Architect

More

We are KBR, a team of teams delivering future-forward science, technology and engineering solutions and mission-critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives while supporting sustainability goals. We offer a hybrid role based in Leatherhead, Surrey, with three days per week in the office. Our people-first culture is grounded in our Zero Harm commitment and our belief in helping everyone Belong, Connect and Grow. We are an equal opportunity employer and our main UK premises will be relocating from Leatherhead in Q4.

We are an equal opportunity employer

last updated 36 week of 2026