Enterprise Architect - SC Cleared

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for an Enterprise Architect – SC Cleared. You will need to use an FCSA Accredited Umbrella Company for this role. Must not have been outside of the UK for more than 28 consecutive days in the last 5 years.

Key Requirements:

• The Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and governing the end-to-end technology landscape, ensuring it is secure, resilient, and aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.
• This individual will provide architectural leadership across IT Infrastructure, Applications, and Cyber Security domains, with a strong emphasis on Secure by Design principles and NIST Risk Management Framework compliance.
• The role requires effective communication with senior client stakeholders and the ability to influence technical decisions through sound governance and evidence-based architectural rationale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Architects across multiple disciplines (Infra, Apps, Cyber).
• Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise level conceptual architecture designs covering infrastructure, applications, and cyber security domains.
• Translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-effective architectural solutions.
• Provide strategic direction on on-premise infrastructure strategies.
• Embed Secure by Design principles throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ensure architecture and solution designs comply with NIST controls, regulatory requirements, and internal cyber security policies.
• Collaborate with Information Architecture, Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to assess architectural risk and apply appropriate mitigation measures.
• Lead architectural governance forums, ensuring all solutions align with enterprise standards and security frameworks.
• Establish and maintain an architecture governance model that promotes alignment, traceability, and transparency in decision making.
• Act as a design authority in major programmes, ensuring consistency and quality across project workstreams.
• Influence and advise senior client stakeholders (including CxOs) on architectural decisions, trade-offs, mitigations, and implications.
• Prepare and present complex technical arguments in a clear, compelling, and business-aligned manner.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to both technical teams and business leaders.
• Monitor emerging technologies, security trends, and architectural best practices.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in architecture methodologies, frameworks, and tooling.
• Mentor solution architects, engineers, and junior team members to elevate architectural maturity within the organisation.

Key Experience:

• Experience in enterprise architecture roles, ideally in complex, regulated environments.
• Expertise in IT infrastructure architecture (e.g. networks, servers, storage, virtualisation), application architecture (e.g. integration, APIs, data), and cyber security architecture (e.g. identity & access management, threat modelling, security controls).
• Strong working knowledge and application of NIST Risk Management Framework, Secure by Design, and architecture standards.
• Proven experience leading architecture governance in large-scale transformation programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence C level and senior stakeholders through clear communication and strategic thinking.
• Background in risk management, security assurance, or information governance is advantageous.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Gravitas and credibility when operating at senior stakeholder level.
• Collaborative and influential leadership style.
• Strong organisational awareness and commercial acumen.
• Able to build strong and positive relationships with client and third-party stakeholders.

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description. Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.