Enterprise Architect (Ref: 196413)
Posted Today by Forsyth Barnes
£650 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Enterprise Architect role involves leading the technology strategy for a prominent sports brand undergoing digital transformation. The position requires collaboration with senior stakeholders to align technology with business goals and ensure architectural governance across various domains. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in enterprise architecture and a strong understanding of cloud platforms and modern architecture patterns. This role offers the opportunity to influence technology strategy within a globally recognized organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Defining and owning the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap across applications, data, infrastructure, and integration domains
- Working closely with senior stakeholders across UK and international teams to align technology direction with business and event delivery goals
- Leading architectural governance to ensure consistency, scalability, security, and performance across all systems
- Assessing existing platforms and defining target-state architectures to support ongoing digital transformation and global operations
- Collaborating with solution architects, engineering, and delivery teams to guide design decisions and ensure architectural alignment
- Identifying opportunities for innovation, modernization, and cloud adoption across a complex, high-visibility environment
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution/Technical Architect operating at enterprise scale
- Strong background across multiple architecture domains (applications, data, infrastructure, integration)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern architecture patterns (APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture)
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent
- Experience working within large-scale transformation programmes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills at senior leadership level
Salary (Rate): £650 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Enterprise Architect (Ref: 196413) Location – London (Hybrid) Rate – Up to £650 per day (outside IR35) Contact - samuel.robinson@forsythbarnes.com I’m currently recruiting for an Enterprise Architect to join a globally renowned sports brand undergoing a major digital transformation. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced architecture professional to shape enterprise-wide technology strategy within a high-profile, world-class organisation operating at scale across international events and audiences.
What you’ll be doing:
- Defining and owning the enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap across applications, data, infrastructure, and integration domains
- Working closely with senior stakeholders across UK and international teams to align technology direction with business and event delivery goals
- Leading architectural governance to ensure consistency, scalability, security, and performance across all systems
- Assessing existing platforms and defining target-state architectures to support ongoing digital transformation and global operations
- Collaborating with solution architects, engineering, and delivery teams to guide design decisions and ensure architectural alignment
- Identifying opportunities for innovation, moernisation, and cloud adoption across a complex, high-visibility environment
What they’re looking for:
- Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect or Senior Solution/Technical Architect operating at enterprise scale
- Strong background across multiple architecture domains (applications, data, infrastructure, integration)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern architecture patterns (APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture)
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or equivalent
- Experience working within large-scale transformation programmes in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills at senior leadership level
Why apply?
- Opportunity to shape the technology strategy of a globally recognised organisation in the sports industry
- Work on high-profile digital transformation initiatives with international reach and visibility
- Join a collaborative, forward-thinking architecture and technology function
- Strong long-term progression into senior enterprise leadership or architecture governance roles