Enterprise Architect - DV cleared

CBSbutler; Malvern (AR); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

CBSbutler invites an experienced Enterprise Architect / Business Architect with strong MOD background to shape and mature business architecture in a highly secure environment. The role emphasizes translating stakeholder needs into robust architectural outputs and guiding multi-disciplinary teams across strategic and operational layers.

The successful candidate will refine enterprise architecture models, maintain Sparx EA repositories, and apply ArchiMate 3, UML and BPMN to produce clear views

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or similar.
• Significant MOD experience is essential.
• Strong TOGAF understanding and application.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and evolve business/enterprise architecture models.
• Translate complex requirements into structured architectural outputs.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and elicitation sessions.
• Identify gaps/risks and propose resolution approaches.
• Produce architecture documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain EA repositories with Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Apply ArchiMate 3, UML and BPMN as appropriate.
• Support requirements management and reporting within Sparx EA.
• Collaborate with data, security, platform and other architecture disciplines.

Skills

Enterprise Architect

Business Architect

Stakeholder engagement

Requirements management

Workshop facilitation

Architecture documentation

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

ArchiMate 3

UML: Use Case/Activity/Sequence

BPMN

Job description

Enterprise Architect - DV cleared

+6 months +

+DV cleared role - current active clearance is essential

+Outside IR35

+£550 - £580 a day

+Hybrid working

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect / Business Architect with strong MOD experience to support the development, maintenance and direction of a business architecture model within a highly secure environment.

The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs and requirements into structured architectural outputs, helping to resolve complex architectural challenges and ensure long-term coherence across stakeholder groups, platforms and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and evolve business and enterprise architecture models.
• Translate complex and ambiguous stakeholder requirements into structured architectural outputs.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and structured requirements elicitation sessions.
• Identify architectural gaps, conflicts and dependencies and propose appropriate resolution approaches.
• Work across multiple levels of abstraction, from strategic drivers through to business processes and capabilities.
• Produce architecture documentation and tailored architectural views for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain and structure complex Enterprise Architecture repositories using Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Apply ArchiMate 3, UML and BPMN appropriately.
• Support requirements management, relationship mapping and reporting within Sparx EA.
• Work collaboratively with data, security, platform and other architecture disciplines.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Business Architect or similar.
• Significant experience working within the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) is essential.
• Experience operating in complex, multi-stakeholder Defence environments.
• Strong understanding and practical application of TOGAF and Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
• Proficient in ArchiMate 3.
• Strong UML experience, including Use Case, Activity and Sequence diagrams.
• Working knowledge of BPMN for process modelling.
• Strong hands-on experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, including maintaining complex EA repositories.
• Experience with Sparx EA requirements management, relationship matrices and reporting capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous stakeholder requirements into structured architectural concepts.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience producing architecture documentation and views for different stakeholder groups.