Lead Digital Enterprise Architect - 12 Month Contract

Inspire People Careers; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Digital Enterprise Architect to oversee design governance across the digital estate. The role involves influencing digital strategy, providing technical advice, and working directly with government departments, with a focus on MOD standards. This is a 12-month contract offering up to £850 per day, with a hybrid working arrangement based around Salisbury/Fareham.

Qualifications

• Hands on experience of working as an Applications, Enterprise or Solutions Architect.
• Experience with MOD requirements and best practice JSP440, SPF, GPG is desirable.
• Eligible for SC Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure design governance across the digital estate.
• Influence and contribute to digital strategy and direction.
• Provide corporate governance and technical advice to digital programmes.

Skills

Design governance

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Technical design

Job description

We are seeking a Lead Digital Enterprise Architect with hands on experience of working as an Applications, Enterprise or Solutions Architect on behalf of a secure Government Dept (exp. in MOD requirements and best practice JSP440, SPF, GPG etc. desirable). You will be responsible for ensuring design governance across the digital estate and influence and contribute to digital strategy and direction. 12 Month contract. Up to £850 per day Inside IR35. Hybrid working Salisbury / Fareham circa 2 days per week. You must be eligible for SC Clearance. Applications close 6pm on Tuesday 28th Oct.

You will provide corporate governance and technical advice to digital programmes, projects and services to ensure the strategy, policy and design principles are adhered to whilst taking into account customer requirements to provide advice and direction.

Role Overview

• Maintain and develop design principles, policy and standards, authoring sub‑strategy and related documentation.
• Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them to make decisions based on risk and complexity.
• Turn business problems into technical design.
• Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity. Works across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.

Essential

• Hands on experience of working as an Applications, Tec…