Senior Enterprise Architect
Posted 1 day ago by Project Recruit
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Manchester, UK
Summary: The Senior Enterprise Architect role involves providing enterprise architecture capabilities within a leading global IT services supplier. The position is hybrid, requiring attendance at the office in Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, or Bristol two days a week, and is a temporary contract lasting over six months. The architect will work closely with various teams to ensure architectural coherence while supporting the development and documentation of end-to-end architectures across multiple domains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce high-level architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'Architecture as Code'
- Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
- Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery
- Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, architecture and design roadmaps
- Stakeholder engagement both Internal and External involved in the programme
- Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns
Key Skills:
- Multiple Enterprise Architecture roles across Consumer, Digital, IP&I, Commercial, Data & AI, Enterprise and TS&I domains
- Strong end-to-end architecture capability across applications, data, integration, cloud, and infrastructure
- Hands-on experience delivering Architecture as Code and automated architecture tooling approaches
- Understanding of composable architecture principles and modular enterprise design
- Ability to design and build architecture components (not only govern or review)
- Experience working across multiple business domains and complex enterprise environments
- Strong capability in defining target state, transition states, and architecture roadmaps
- Experience producing architecture artefacts including models, standards, and design documentation
- Ability to operate across cross-domain dependencies and large-scale transformation programmes
- Strong engineering mindset with ability to engage deeply with delivery and platform teams
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Senior Enterprise Architect
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Senior Enterprise Architect to be based at their client's office in Leeds/Manchester/Edinburgh/Bristol, UK.
This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Leeds/Manchester/Edinburgh/Bristol office 2 days per week .
This is a 6+ month temporary contract to start ASAP
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
The Enterprise Architect will provide enterprise architecture capability within the CTO - Insurance(IP&I)/Consumer/Commercial/Data & AI/Enterprise Functions. Working within agreed architectural direction, the role supports the development, documentation, and assurance of end-to-end architectures across multiple domains. This includes shaping solution designs, supporting feasibility assessments and roadmaps, producing architectural artefacts, identifying cross domain dependencies and risks, and contributing to architecture governance.
The role works closely with delivery, platform, and engineering teams to maintain architectural coherence while enabling pragmatic delivery.
The role requires strong technical architecture skills across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. This includes hands on capability in defining hybrid cloud and hosting architectures, API led and event driven integration patterns, and non-functional design covering security, resilience, availability, and regulatory requirements. The Enterprise Architect is expected to produce and assess solution designs, architecture decision records, and target-state models, applying sound engineering judgement and trade off analysis. Success in the role depends on the ability to engage deeply with engineering teams, understand modern delivery practices, and working within technology guardrails from across the broader organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce highlevel architecture, future/north star and emerging technology views and roadmaps - with a view to start implementing 'ARchitecture as Code'
- Provide architectural guidance, including external expertise on trends and best practice for strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
- Help with transition states, designs and architecture delivery
- Embedded within the programme and work with workstreams leads to help drive scope, requirements, archiecture and design roadmaps
- Stakeholder engagment both Internal and External involved in the programme
- Responsible for delivering designs, tooling strategy and data delivery patterns
Key Requirements
Essential Skills:
- Multiple Enterprise Architecture roles across Consumer, Digital, IP&I, Commercial, Data & AI, Enterprise and TS&I domains
- Strong end-to-end architecture capability across applications, data, integration, cloud, and infrastructure
- Hands-on experience delivering Architecture as Code and automated architecture tooling approaches
- Understanding of composable architecture principles and modular enterprise design
- Ability to design and build architecture components (not only govern or review)
- Experience working across multiple business domains and complex enterprise environments
- Strong capability in defining target state, transition states, and architecture roadmaps
- Experience producing architecture artefacts including models, standards, and design documentation
- Ability to operate across cross-domain dependencies and large-scale transformation programmes
- Strong engineering mindset with ability to engage deeply with delivery and platform teams
Desirable Skills:
- Multiple tech skills across a range of technologies to support the CTO Architecture Platforms.
- Stakeholder Management, Architecture, Banking knowledge, Blockchain, DLP, Payments, Loans, Cards, Pensions, Markets, Machine Learning, Cloud Services, Agentic AI and Artificial Intelligence.
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