Enterprise Architect I SC Cleared I Bristol

Summary: The Enterprise Architect will lead architectural initiatives across IT Infrastructure, Applications, and Cyber Security, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and compliance with security standards. This role requires SC clearance and a focus on Secure by Design principles, with responsibilities including governance, stakeholder engagement, and risk management. The position is hybrid and spans a duration of 10 months. The architect will influence senior stakeholders and provide strategic direction in a complex, regulated environment.

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 life cycle.
• 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.

Key Skills:

• Experience in enterprise architecture roles, ideally in complex, regulated environments.
• Expertise in IT infrastructure architecture (eg networks, Servers, storage, virtualisation), application architecture (eg integration, APIs, data), and cyber security architecture (eg 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.

Salary (Rate): £716

City: Bristol

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT