Enterprise Architect (Interim) in Gloucester

Position: Enterprise Architect (Interim)

Location: 70 Redcliff, BS1 6AL

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Duration: 6+ Months

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Pay Rate: PAYE: £800.00 per day

Job Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the Digital and Data Strategy by creating enterprise architecture plans, target architectures, and technology roadmaps.
• Assess the current technology and data environment to identify gaps, duplication, risks, and opportunities for improvement or consolidation.
• Develop clear architecture roadmaps to support short-term delivery needs and long-term technology goals.
• Create and maintain business capability models, ensuring business capabilities align with strategic priorities and transformation plans.
• Define enterprise data architecture, including data platforms, data flows, integration patterns, data governance, and data management approaches.
• Work with Data Architects to improve data quality, data standards, business glossary, and management of structured and unstructured data.
• Review and manage application portfolios, identifying opportunities for application rationalisation, replacement, and consolidation.
• Develop application and integration architecture, including API-first approaches, integration standards, and decision frameworks.
• Support CRM and case management system consolidation activities.
• Create technology improvement plans and support the development of security and cyber architecture roadmaps.
• Define enterprise architecture standards, principles, governance processes, and technical guardrails.
• Establish and support architecture review processes to provide guidance and assurance for projects and programmes.
• Provide architecture advice for technology decisions, procurement activities, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Define non-functional requirements and ensure solutions meet business, security, and technical standards.
• Develop guidance and governance for AI tools, integration approaches, and architecture decisions.
• Help establish long-term Enterprise Architecture capability by embedding effective processes, governance, and ways of working.
• Work closely with senior leaders, technical teams, and business stakeholders to ensure technology decisions support organisational goals.

Person Specifications

• Proven experience working as an Enterprise Architect in complex organisations.
• Experience delivering enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps, and target architectures.
• Experience working in public sector or large multi-stakeholder environments is highly desirable.
• Strong experience assessing current technology landscapes and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Experience with technology consolidation, system rationalisation, and integration design.
• Good understanding of business architecture, capability models, and linking business needs with technology solutions.
• Experience with data architecture, data governance, and modern data management practices.
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and data platform technologies.
• Experience with application integration approaches, APIs, and enterprise system connectivity.
• Understanding of CRM and case management system consolidation.
• Experience creating architecture standards, governance frameworks, and decision-making processes.
• Knowledge of cyber security architecture and technology risk management.
• Ability to translate business strategies into practical technology solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work with senior leaders, delivery teams, and external partners.
• Comfortable balancing immediate project needs with long-term strategic technology direction.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment with 2 days per week in the Bristol office.