Enterprise Architect (Candidate Must hold Active SC Clearance & DV Eligible)

ETeam Inc; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Enterprise Architect to shape and govern their technology landscape. This pivotal role involves leading architectural initiatives across IT infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity, ensuring compliance with secure-by-design principles and NIST standards. The ideal candidate will influence senior stakeholders, drive innovation, and mentor junior architects. Join a forward-thinking company where your expertise will directly impact strategic objectives and enhance architectural maturity in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise architecture roles in complex, regulated environments.
• Expertise in IT infrastructure, application, and cybersecurity architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of architects across multiple disciplines and define enterprise-level architecture.
• Ensure architecture designs comply with NIST controls and internal cybersecurity policies.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

IT Infrastructure Architecture

Cybersecurity Architecture

NIST Risk Management Framework

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Enterprise Architect (Candidate Must hold Active SC Clearance & DV Eligible)

We are a global recruitment specialist supporting clients across EMEA, APAC, US, and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Role Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Bristol BS34 7QE | Hybrid, 60% on site
Duration: 31/03/2026
Candidate must hold SC Clearance & DV Eligible

Role Description: Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure, Applications & Cyber Security

Purpose of the Role: The enterprise architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and governing the end-to-end technology landscape, ensuring it is secure, resilient, and aligned with the organization's strategic objectives. This individual will provide architectural leadership across IT infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity domains, with a strong emphasis on secure-by-design principles and NIST Risk Management Framework compliance. The role requires effective communication with senior client stakeholders and the ability to influence technical decisions through sound governance and evidence-based architectural rationale.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architectural Leadership: Leading a team of Architects across multiple disciplines (Infra, Apps, Cyber). Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise-level conceptual architecture designs covering infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity domains. Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-effective architectural solutions. Provide strategic direction on on-premise infrastructure strategies.
2. Cyber Security & Secure by Design: Embed Secure by Design principles throughout the product lifecycle. Ensure architecture and solution designs comply with NIST controls, regulatory requirements, and internal cybersecurity policies. Collaborate with information architecture, security, risk, and compliance teams to assess architectural risk and apply appropriate mitigation measures.
3. Governance & Assurance: Lead architectural governance forums, ensuring all solutions align with enterprise standards and security frameworks. Establish and maintain an architecture governance model that promotes alignment, traceability, and transparency in decision-making. Act as a design authority in major programmes, ensuring consistency and quality across project workstreams.
4. Stakeholder Engagement: Influence and advise senior client stakeholders (including CxOs) on architectural decisions, trade-offs, mitigations, and implications. Prepare and present complex technical arguments in a clear, compelling, and business-aligned manner. Serve as a trusted advisor to both technical teams and business leaders.
5. Continuous Improvement: Monitor emerging technologies, security trends, and architectural best practices. Drive innovation and continuous improvement in architecture methodologies, frameworks, and tooling. Mentor solution architects, engineers, and junior team members to elevate architectural maturity within the organization.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience in enterprise architecture roles, ideally in complex, regulated environments.
• Expertise in IT infrastructure architecture (e.g., networks, servers, storage, virtualisation), application architecture (e.g., integration, APIs, data), and cybersecurity architecture (e.g., identity & access management, threat modelling, security controls).
• Strong working knowledge and application of NIST Risk Management Framework, Secure by Design, and architecture standards.
• Proven experience leading architecture governance in large-scale transformation programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence C-level and senior stakeholders through clear communication and strategic thinking.

Desirable Skills and Qualifications

Background in risk management, security assurance, or information governance is advantageous.

Key Attributes

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Gravitas and credibility when operating at senior stakeholder level.
• Collaborative and influential leadership style.
• Strong organizational awareness and commercial acumen.
• Able to build strong and positive relationships with client and third-party stakeholders.

If interested, please send your CV. Candidates are often shortlisted within 48 hours.

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