Summary: The role of Enterprise Architect involves leading the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps for a Defence client, requiring SC clearance. The position is a 12-month contract that includes both remote and on-site work in Salisbury. The architect will focus on business, technology, and data perspectives, ensuring alignment with the organization's ecosystem and strategic goals. Responsibilities include guiding decision-making, developing architectural designs, and collaborating with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states
- Understand the organisation's ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures
- Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes
- Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk
- Establish architectural principles, policies and standards
- Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy
- Develop the architecture community
- Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation
- Develop, validate and review conceptual, logical and physical architectural designs
- Manage the architectural aspects of the target design, policies and standards
- Work pro-actively to achieve stable, viable designs
- Assist with the selection of suppliers (where appropriate) to fulfil the requirements
Key Skills:
- TOGAF
- ITIL
- Experience in enterprise architecture
- Strong understanding of business, technology, and data perspectives
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders
- Experience in developing architectural designs
- Knowledge of emerging trends in the industry
- Strategic thinking and decision-making skills
Salary (Rate): £700 per day
City: Salisbury
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Enterprise Architect - 12 months - SC Cleared
Duration: 12 months
Rate: £700 per day
Location: Salisbury - hybrid with occasional travel to site.
IR35: In Scope
The role:
A leading Defence client are seeking SC Cleared Enterprise Architects, to own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states.
12-month contract, Inside IR35, working both remotely and on-site in Salisbury.
Responsibilities & Experiences:
- TOGAF
- ITIL
- Own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including 'as is', 'to be' and transitional states
- Understand the organisation's ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures
- Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes
- Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk Establish architectural principles, policies and standards
- Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy
- Develop the architecture community
- Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation
- Develop, validate and review conceptual, logical and physical architectural designs
- Manage the architectural aspects of the target design, policies and standards
- Work pro-actively to achieve stable, viable designs
- Assist with the selection of suppliers (where appropriate) to fulfil the requirements
If you are available and interested, please apply in the first instance and you will be contacted to discuss the position further.
