Lead Enterprise Architect - Security-cleared
Posted 2 days ago by Parker Shaw
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Remote + occasional travel to Salsibury/Fareham, UK
Summary: The Lead Enterprise Architect will oversee design governance for the client's digital estate on a 12-month contract, with occasional on-site work in Salisbury or Fareham. This role involves influencing digital strategy, providing corporate governance, and ensuring adherence to design principles while addressing customer requirements. The architect will translate business problems into technical designs and maintain design principles and policies. The position requires hands-on experience in architecture roles and familiarity with governance processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and develop design principles, policy and standards, authoring sub-strategy and related documentation.
- Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them to make decisions based on risk and complexity.
- Turn business problems into technical design.
- Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
- Work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.
Key Skills:
- Hands on experience of working as an Applications, Technical, Solution or Enterprise Architect.
- Experience of working with and writing architectural strategy, policies and processes.
- Experience of working within a similar governance and/or assurance role.
- Experience of writing and reviewing technical design documentation.
- ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) And one of the following - ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Certification, IT4IT Certification, COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) Certification.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are currently recruiting for a Lead Enterprise Architect to work a 12-month contract with our client with occasional on-site in either Salisbury or Fareham.
As a Digital Lead Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring design governance across the client's digital estate. You will work to influence and contribute to digital strategy and direction. You will provide corporate governance and technical advice to digital programmes, projects and services to ensure that Dstl strategy, policy and design principles are adhered to whilst taking into account customer requirements to provide advice and direction.
- Maintain and develop design principles, policy and standards, authoring sub-strategy and related documentation.
- Listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them to make decisions based on risk and complexity.
- Turn business problems into technical design.
- Designs systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
- Works across multiple services or a single large or complicated service.
Essential:
- Hands on experience of working as an Applications, Technical, Solution or Enterprise Architect.
- Experience of working with and writing architectural strategy, policies and processes.
- Experience of working within a similar governance and/or assurance role.
- Experience of writing and reviewing technical design documentation.
- ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) And one of the following - ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Certification, IT4IT Certification, COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) Certification
Desirable:
- Working with a strategic outsource partner in a context applicable to the offered role.