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Enterprise Architect
Posted 3 days ago by Atrium (EMEA)
£750 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Enterprise Architecture Design Assurance Consultant role involves providing independent design assurance and governance within the Enterprise Architecture function for a client in the financial services sector. The consultant will assess solution designs against enterprise standards and principles, ensuring compliance and alignment with long-term architectural outcomes. This position requires collaboration with architects, engineers, and stakeholders in complex, regulated environments. The role emphasizes promoting best practices and enhancing the capability of solution design teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assess solution designs, technical proposals and delivery plans against enterprise architecture standards and principles
- Review alignment with approved reference architectures, patterns, roadmaps and technology strategy
- Ensure security, resilience and regulatory considerations are embedded in all designs
- Support Design Authority forums with assessments, recommendations and decision rationale
- Identify architectural risks, technical debt and non-compliance and ensure these are documented and managed
- Provide clear, reasoned challenge and constructive feedback to designers and engineers
- Explain assurance outcomes and required changes in a professional and diplomatic manner
- Promote reuse, simplification and consistency across the technology landscape
- Contribute to evolving architecture standards, governance and assurance practices
- Share best practice and support capability uplift within solution design teams
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in Enterprise or Solution Architecture within large, complex organisations
- Experience operating within regulated environments, ideally financial services
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, governance and design authority models
- Experience reviewing and assuring solution designs and delivery plans
- Hands-on data architecture capability including SQL, dbt and No-SQL modelling
- Solid understanding of modern application, integration and infrastructure architectures
- Ability to provide confident, evidence-based challenge to senior stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Experience balancing strategic architecture goals with delivery constraints
Salary (Rate): £750 daily
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Enterprise Architecture Design Assurance Consultant
Duration: Initial 6 months (extensions likely)
Location: Flexible, closest office aligned to candidate location in the UK
Onsite requirements: 2 days per week onsite
Engagement Type: Outside IR35
Day Rate: Up to £750 per day
Right to work: Candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, sponsorship is not available for this role.
Atrium Global is supporting a client in the financial services sector to secure multiple Enterprise Architecture Design Assurance Consultants to strengthen their Design Authority capability and ensure robust, compliant and strategically aligned solution delivery.
Job Overview
This role sits within the Enterprise Architecture function and provides independent design assurance and governance across solution designs and delivery plans. You will assess proposals against enterprise standards, principles and technology strategy, offering constructive challenge and clear guidance to delivery teams. The focus is on ensuring solutions are well designed, compliant, resilient and aligned to long term architectural outcomes rather than short term fixes. This position works closely with architects, engineers and stakeholders across complex, regulated environments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assess solution designs, technical proposals and delivery plans against enterprise architecture standards and principles
- Review alignment with approved reference architectures, patterns, roadmaps and technology strategy
- Ensure security, resilience and regulatory considerations are embedded in all designs
- Support Design Authority forums with assessments, recommendations and decision rationale
- Identify architectural risks, technical debt and non-compliance and ensure these are documented and managed
- Provide clear, reasoned challenge and constructive feedback to designers and engineers
- Explain assurance outcomes and required changes in a professional and diplomatic manner
- Promote reuse, simplification and consistency across the technology landscape
- Contribute to evolving architecture standards, governance and assurance practices
- Share best practice and support capability uplift within solution design teams
REQUIREMENTS
- Proven experience in Enterprise or Solution Architecture within large, complex organisations
- Experience operating within regulated environments, ideally financial services
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, governance and design authority models
- Experience reviewing and assuring solution designs and delivery plans
- Hands-on data architecture capability including SQL, dbt and No-SQL modelling
- Solid understanding of modern application, integration and infrastructure architectures
- Ability to provide confident, evidence-based challenge to senior stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Experience balancing strategic architecture goals with delivery constraints