Enterprise Architect, 12 month Contract (Inside IR35)

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect contractor to work with one our Financial Services clients. This role is responsible for the overall architecture for the client's business divisions. The role will lead architecture activity on significant projects, programmes and strategic initiatives of high complexity, adding value to a wide range of business and technology stakeholders across the client and partner organisations. Engagements will include working with specific divisions and Change Delivery teams. The products & services generated must both cohere with strategic enterprise strategies and meet the business customer’s needs while ensuring fit and integrity across other divisions. This role is for a 12 month Inside IR35 contract paying a rate of £650-750 p/d.

What you will be doing

• Translate business strategy into a practical architecture products & services that achieve outcomes, aligning with supervision, policy, competition, enforcement or market oversight, risk, or general counsel etc.).
• Own and deliver stakeholder ready material.
• Provide recommendations & assurance to senior stakeholders (including Executive Committee, Senior Leadership Teams, etc) and various Design Authorities to enable the organisation to make appropriate (value for money, strategic alignment, risk reduction, etc) business, technology and data decisions.
• Identify opportunities for business innovation and shape design proposals for executing them; drive innovation within the business where this delivers quick wins and business benefit and is in the boundary of the enterprise architecture roadmap.
• Deliver the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states.
• Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes.
• Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation.
• A chance to work in cross functional/cross divisional teams passionate about delivering value continuously.
• Delivering an architecture that enables the client to provide real value to consumers, financial services industry, financial markets and to UK plc.
• Experience working as an enterprise architect either in professional services, financial services, or the public sector / regulated environment.
• Experience in conducting market, customer and technology assessments and using insights to shape architecture in support of business strategies.
• Experience of producing an enterprise architecture for large organizations and leading business stakeholders to enable the development and execution of their strategy.

Essential Skills

• Expertise in architectural frameworks and concepts, methodologies and mapping standards and approaches i.e. capability maps, strategic roadmaps and experience in the use of enterprise architecture tooling.
• Overall knowledge of a broad range of technology, trends and standards in providing IT products as services.
• Good facilitator, drawing out problems, active listening skills, involving and gaining commitment from the relevant stakeholders in the business with credibility and gravitas to establish trust, gaining consensus and buy-in, orchestrating engagement and collaboration with senior leadership.
• A proactive and creative thinker, whilst grounded in the use of analysis tools and frameworks to solve problems and innovate.
• Experience translating strategic documentation into practical architecture.
• Experience with formal architectural methodologies (e.g. TOAGF, BizBoK, etc).
• Excellent communication skills able to translate technical information, challenges, and requirements into easily understandable and digestible content for a business audience.
• Open, curious, collaborative, can-do attitude.

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Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, and AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across a broad range of industries worldwide. Our one-of-a-kind global boutique approach means we provide our clients with tailored solutions unique to their organisation that can scale due to our extensive footprint. As a values-led organisation, our mission is to make an extraordinary impact on our clients, our people, and our community. We believe it is this approach that has allowed us to work with and transform the most influential brands and organisations in the world, from strategy through to execution. We are part of the OPMG Group of Companies, a division of Omnicom Group Inc. Credera will never ask for money up front and will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. You should be very wary of, and carefully scrutinise, any job opportunity that asks for money prior to starting and/or one where all communications take place exclusively via chat.