Enterprise Architect | (TOGAF/ISEB & ITIL/IT4IT/COBIT) | £700/Day
Posted 1 day ago by Albion Blake
£700 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Enterprise Architect role is a contract position focused on driving enterprise-wide change within complex digital environments. The successful candidate will translate business strategy into effective technical delivery while collaborating with various stakeholders. This high-impact role requires strong leadership, influence, and decision-making skills across business, technology, and data domains. The position is based in Hampshire and operates on a hybrid working model with occasional site travel.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and prioritise enterprise-wide change to enable delivery at pace
- Own and evolve the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps
- Define and manage as-is, to-be, and transitional architectures
- Lead delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that support organisational transformation
- Establish and govern architectural principles, standards, and policies
- Provide strategic guidance on business, technology, and data decisions, ensuring sustainability, scalability, and value for money
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align initiatives with enterprise architecture strategy
- Understand and manage ecosystem interdependencies, including reference architectures
- Lead and grow the architecture community
- Carry out horizon scanning to identify emerging industry trends and opportunities
Key Skills:
- Architecture for the Whole Context
- Architecture Communication
- Commercial Perspective
- Community Collaboration
- Architectural Decision-Making
- Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Problem Definition & Shaping
- TOGAF or ISEB certification
- ITIL, IT4IT, or COBIT certification
Salary (Rate): £700/day
City: Hampshire
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Title: Enterprise Architect – Contract (Inside IR35)
Location: Hampshire (Hybrid - occasional travel to site)
Contract Length: 12 months
Rate: £700/day (Umbrella) / £520.15/day (PAYE)
Security Clearance: Active SC clearance
Role Overview
My client seeking experienced Enterprise Architects to work at a strategic level, shaping and driving enterprise-wide change across complex digital environments. You will play a key leadership role in translating business strategy into effective business change and technical delivery. This is a high-impact role requiring strong influence, collaboration, and decision-making across business, technology, and data domains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and prioritise enterprise-wide change to enable delivery at pace
- Own and evolve the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps
- Define and manage as-is, to-be, and transitional architectures
- Lead delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that support organisational transformation
- Establish and govern architectural principles, standards, and policies
- Provide strategic guidance on business, technology, and data decisions, ensuring sustainability, scalability, and value for money
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align initiatives with enterprise architecture strategy
- Understand and manage ecosystem interdependencies, including reference architectures
- Lead and grow the architecture community
- Carry out horizon scanning to identify emerging industry trends and opportunities
Skills & Experience Required:
- Architecture for the Whole Context
- Assess societal, policy, and industry trends and their impact on the organisation
- Build resilience into architectures and coach others on trend identification
- Architecture Communication
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Influence senior stakeholders and mediate complex architectural discussions
- Gain buy-in for initiatives with high risk, complexity, and impact
- Commercial Perspective
- Identify appropriate contractual frameworks
- Support supplier evaluation and selection
- Community Collaboration
- Resolve cross-team and cross-departmental issues at senior levels
- Coach on team dynamics and conflict resolution
- Architectural Decision-Making
- Lead complex architectural decisions and risk management
- Evolve architectural governance and assurance frameworks
- Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Design architectures spanning technology, people, and processes
- Ensure organisation-wide change aligns with architectural strategy
- Problem Definition & Shaping
- Frame complex, high-risk problems and guide solution options
- Challenge assumptions and identify opportunities early
Qualifications (Essential)
TOGAF or ISEB
Plus one of the following:
ITIL Certification
IT4IT Certification
COBIT Certification