Enterprise Architect
Posted 2 days ago by psd group
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Enterprise Architect role involves supporting a complex Information Systems environment during a transformation period, working closely with IS leadership and business stakeholders. The position requires a hands-on approach to shape technology direction, support architecture governance, and ensure alignment between business strategy and IT delivery. The ideal candidate will operate across various domains and contribute at both strategic and tactical levels. This is a contract position for 6 months, with a focus on delivering coherent IS strategies and promoting best practices across teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the understanding of business strategy and help capture and articulate business objectives.
- Contribute to translating business needs into coherent IS strategies, principles and solution options.
- Assist in defining the target Information Systems landscape and supporting roadmap development.
- Collaborate with Domain and Solution Architects to support architecture design across initiatives.
- Provide input to enterprise and domain architecture models aligned to business and technology strategy.
- Identify and document regulatory, security, and compliance constraints relevant to assigned initiatives.
- Support architecture governance processes, including standards, principles, patterns and documentation.
- Contribute to the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies and platforms.
- Help define, maintain and promote technology standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
- Support the development of initiative roadmaps, ensuring business, security, reliability and performance requirements are considered.
- Promote best practices and architectural standards across IS teams and delivery partners.
Key Skills:
- Broad enterprise architecture experience across Marketing, Sales, Delivery (including Manufacturing) and Operations.
- Experience working across complex, integrated enterprise environments.
- Exposure to data platforms and analytics architectures; experience with Microsoft Fabric is a plus.
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, methods and governance.
- Ability to operate at strategic, tactical and operational planning levels.
- Proven capability in technology advising and influencing stakeholders.
- Strong conceptual and systems thinking skills.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and managing competing priorities.
- Strong communication, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills.
- High level of personal accountability and results orientation.
- Enterprise-level architecture modelling skills.
- Solution architecture experience translating business requirements into technology blueprints.
- Data architecture experience including data models, standards, integration and analytics platforms.
- Cloud computing experience designing solutions in hybrid and cloud-based environments.
- Business Intelligence / Analytics architecture experience.
- Understanding of system and technology integration patterns.
- Knowledge of information security architecture and risk considerations.
- Awareness of network architecture, infrastructure and hosting models.
- Experience supporting contingency and disaster recovery planning.
- Strong technical documentation and architecture artefact creation skills.
- Awareness of IT industry trends and emerging technologies.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Enterprise Architect Summary Location: Various Locations OR Remote Rate: Negotiable based on Experience Duration: 6 Months Availability: ASAP About the Client My client is the air transport industry's IT provider, delivering solutions for airlines, airports, aircraft, and governments. Their technology powers more seamless, safe, and sustainable air travel. They are looking to hire an experienced Enterprise Architect on a contract basis for 6 months. About the Role Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect (Generalist) to support a large, complex Information Systems (IS) environment during a period of change and transformation. The role will work closely with IS leadership, Domain Architects and business stakeholders to help shape technology direction, support architecture governance, and ensure alignment between business strategy and IT delivery. This is a hands-on, advisory role suited to an architect who can operate across business, data, application, and infrastructure domains, and who is comfortable contributing at both strategic and tactical levels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the understanding of business strategy and help capture and articulate business objectives.
- Contribute to translating business needs into coherent IS strategies, principles and solution options.
- Assist in defining the target Information Systems landscape and supporting roadmap development.
- Collaborate with Domain and Solution Architects to support architecture design across initiatives.
- Provide input to enterprise and domain architecture models aligned to business and technology strategy.
- Identify and document regulatory, security, and compliance constraints relevant to assigned initiatives.
- Support architecture governance processes, including standards, principles, patterns and documentation.
- Contribute to the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies and platforms.
- Help define, maintain and promote technology standards, reference architectures and reusable patterns.
- Support the development of initiative roadmaps, ensuring business, security, reliability and performance requirements are considered.
- Promote best practices and architectural standards across IS teams and delivery partners.
What we are looking for Experience & Domain Exposure:
- Broad enterprise architecture experience across Marketing, Sales, Delivery (including Manufacturing) and Operations, from both process and systems perspectives.
- Experience working across complex, integrated enterprise environments rather than a single domain.
- Exposure to data platforms and analytics architectures; experience with Microsoft Fabric is a plus.
Enterprise & Business Skills
- Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks, methods and governance.
- Ability to operate at strategic (3–5 year), tactical (1–2 year) and operational planning levels.
- Proven capability in technology advising, influencing stakeholders and providing pragmatic recommendations.
- Strong conceptual and systems thinking, with the ability to identify dependencies and trade-offs.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and managing competing priorities.
- Strong communication, facilitation and conflict-resolution skills.
- High level of personal accountability and results orientation.
Technical & Architecture Skills:
- Enterprise-level architecture modelling (conceptual, logical and physical).
- Solution architecture experience translating business requirements into technology blueprints.
- Data architecture: data models, standards, integration and analytics platforms.
- Cloud computing: experience designing solutions in hybrid and cloud-based environments.
- Business Intelligence / Analytics architecture experience.
- Understanding of system and technology integration patterns.
- Knowledge of information security architecture and risk considerations.
- Awareness of network architecture, infrastructure and hosting models.
- Experience supporting contingency and disaster recovery planning.
- Strong technical documentation and architecture artefact creation skills.
- Awareness of IT industry trends and emerging technologies.
Core Competencies:
- Enterprise Architecture & Governance
- Solution & Product Architecture
- Data & Cloud Architecture
- Systems Thinking
- Managing Change and Risk
- Standards, Policies & Best Practices
- Commercial Acumen
- Technical Excellence