Enterprise Architect in Leatherhead

Company Description

Egis is a leading global consulting, construction engineering and operating firm. We work together with our clients, across every aspect of transport, energy and the built environment to build a more balanced, sustainable and resilient world. The Egis Group has over 50 years of experience and a team of 19,500 employees in over 120 countries around the world. Bringing in our values as a people‑first company, we are strongly committed to sustainability and innovation.

Job Description

The M25 is one of our flagship projects in the UK. It is the most used part of the UK Strategic Road Network with over 200,000 vehicles per day and a critical infrastructure asset for personal and goods vehicles into and around our capital. The network includes around 800 structures and 5 tunnels, requiring high levels of performance, constant improvement and repairs to keep it operating smoothly.

We have formed a Joint Venture called Connect Plus Services (CPS) to work with our partners to widen, operate and maintain the M25 under a 30‑year contract and are looking for an Enterprise Architect to play a vital role in the delivery of the digital transformation of the M25 joint venture – being instrumental in strategic change programmes and identifying innovative solutions to business needs. Accountability for IT architecture for the M25 IT systems and a roadmap of activity, aligned to architecture principles, to improve the longer‑term architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of enterprise architecture processes and principles.
• Development of an enterprise architecture methodology, including key artefacts.
• Capture enterprise architecture decisions, providing logic and proposing plans to mitigate these impacts.
• Regular updates on progress and status reporting to the Head of Business Transformation and Business Planning Director.
• Running and managing the Technical Design Authority (TDA) to review all proposed technical solutions and focus on bespoke solutions to ensure they have been coded effectively and considered security as part of their development.
• Supporting key governance forums, such as the Change Board, and providing regular contributions to the Portfolio Review Meeting.
• Identification, reporting and tracking of architecture risks, issues and dependencies. Escalating as required.

Qualifications

• Essential – Successfully running enterprise architecture for small and medium sized organisations.
• Essential – Understanding of established architectural frameworks.
• Essential – Supporting delivery of technical solutions and ensuring compliance with business requirements.
• Essential – Presenting updates at complex governance forums.
• Essential – Engaging senior level stakeholders and obtaining buy‑in.
• Essential – Developing an enterprise architecture strategy organisation‑wide, along with roadmap, and communicating this to the business.
• Essential – Shaping of enterprise architecture initiatives and activities.
• Essential – Understanding of M25 business, digital technology and its application.
• Essential – Engaging third party suppliers to understand their technical solutions and their development roadmaps.
• Essential – Interdependency identification and tracking.
• Essential – Management of technical debt.
• Essential – Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
• Essential – Technical proficiency in data platforms (e.g., AWS Redshift, MS SQL Server), BI tools (e.g., Power BI), and scripting (SQL, Python/R).

Desirable

Information Security experience and understanding of NIS (Network and Information Systems) regulations and ISO27001 accreditation.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and we strive to build a workforce that truly reflects the communities we represent. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background and any other protected characteristic. If you decide to apply for an opportunity with us, your application will be assessed purely on your experience, the essential and desirable criteria, and your suitability for the role. We value each and every one’s contribution as this builds our culture and means that if you work with us, you will be included, listened to and respected.

Please note, to be considered for this role, you must be based in the UK and must already be able to legally work in the UK. We are unable to offer or provide sponsorship for this position.

Location

Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Project Management

Industries

Civil Engineering