At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape enterprise architecture visions and drive large-scale transformation initiatives.
- Company: Dynamic consulting firm focused on public sector and innovative brands.
- Benefits: 28 days holiday, private healthcare, gym membership, and enhanced parental leave.
- Other info: Join a culture that embraces differences and supports personal growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by aligning technology with business strategy in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in enterprise architecture with strong consulting and leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We specialise in public sector and public-facing organisations—from government agencies and local authorities to energy, utilities, transportation and healthcare. We also work for some of the world’s most dynamic brands across automotive, retail, financial services, and consumer goods.
We are looking for a strategic and business-oriented Senior Architect to join our consulting firm. In this role, you will help shape clients’ enterprise architecture vision, align technology with business strategy, and drive large-scale transformation initiatives. You will develop solution architecture and advocate for strategic architecture practices.
This role is to support driving growth in our winning and delivery of architecture services. You will be supporting sales efforts, ensuring successful project delivery, and building internal enterprise/solution architecture capabilities. You will engage with senior client stakeholders, define architecture roadmaps, guide execution, and mentor both client and internal teams. The ideal candidate combines deep architectural expertise with strong consulting and leadership skills, and thrives in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
Key Responsibilities- Define components of, implement and govern enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and standards across client engagements.
- Support development of target operating models, capability maturity assessments, and transformation roadmaps.
- Ensure alignment between business goals, IT strategy, and solution delivery through architecture governance.
- Act as an advisor to client executives, helping them navigate change and technology evolution.
- Collaborate with sales and account teams to identify enterprise-level challenges and shape transformational architecture strategies.
- Support architecture visioning and strategy sessions with client executives and technology leaders.
- Develop high-level enterprise architectures, capability maps, and transformation roadmaps during pre-sales engagements.
- Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, and executive presentations that clearly articulate enterprise value.
- Develop and enhance enterprise architecture methodologies, tools, and reusable templates.
- Mentor consultants and peers, internally and in clients, in enterprise architecture best practices and advocating architectural practice.
- Contribute to the development of consulting offerings related to architecture strategy, governance, and transformation.
- Lead internal knowledge-sharing forums and communities of practice focused on enterprise architecture.
- 7+ years of experience in solution/enterprise architecture or a combination of strategic IT leadership and architecture roles.
- Strong background in developing enterprise-wide architecture strategies, reference architectures, and capability models.
- Proven experience aligning technology with business strategy across large, complex organisations, and delivery of architecture projects to achieve strategic goals.
- Helping build organisational maturity in architecture practice from varying current levels of capability and internal team skills.
- Presented and been involved in TDA (Technical Design Authorities) to define infrastructure, technology architectures, networking and industry security standards and compliance.
- Depth in some domains with working knowledge in all.
- Understanding across architecture domains including business, data, application, technology and infrastructure architecture.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including with C-level audiences.
- Strong consulting background with experience in client-facing delivery and strategic advisory roles.
- Familiar with standards including ISO27001, ITIL V4 and Cyber Essentials+ from an enterprise architecture perspective.
- Architecture mapping, as-is to-be and led architect design from discovery to implementation.
- Has provided strategic direction and overseen the integration of emerging new technology platforms including cloud platforms, new enterprise applications, big data platforms and tools for advanced analytics including AI/machine learning/data science that drive business value.
- A growth mindset AI curious and ready to embrace opportunities.
- Experience with enterprise architecture tools (e.g., Bizzdesign, Sparx EA, etc).
- Familiarity with TOGAF, DAMA, or other recognized architecture frameworks.
- Industry-specific architecture knowledge (e.g. public sector (GDS Service standard), utilities, healthcare).
- Certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure, or business architecture certifications.
- Experience leading enterprise transformations involving cloud migration, data strategy, or operating model redesign.
- Experience across a range of related technology disciplines such as Agile, Product Management, DevOps, Cyber Security, User Centred Design, Design Thinking amongst others.
Our culture is built on:
- We raise the bar
- We look out for each other
- We embrace our differences
- We shape a changing world
- We’re all in
Our benefits include:
- Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days (note that 3 days are held for Christmas holidays).
- Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday.
- Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions.
- Private healthcare.
- Life assurance.
- Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave.
- Cycle to work schemes.
- Gym.
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