Enterprise Architect

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Enterprise Architect for a leading digital solutions provider. This role will see you working within a secure Defence environment, helping translate strategic business objectives into practical, scalable and secure technology roadmaps.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping enterprise-wide architecture vision, ensuring technology strategy aligns with operational outcomes across complex, multi-disciplinary programmes.

The Role

As an Enterprise Architect, you will operate across business, data and technology domains, guiding stakeholders through architectural decision-making and ensuring best practice is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.

You will:

• Own and develop enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps (as-is, to-be and transition states)
• Translate business strategy into technology and data delivery plans
• Lead cross-cutting architectural capabilities that enable organisational change
• Establish and govern architecture principles, policies and standards
• Ensure adherence to corporate, industry and national security standards
• Collaborate with delivery, engineering and security teams to embed architecture across programmes
• Provide architectural oversight across portfolios and transformation initiatives
• Contribute to bids and proposals as a pre-sales architect where required
• Mentor and develop internal architectural capability and standards
• Identify and assess emerging technologies, evaluating their strategic relevance and impact

You will engage confidently with senior stakeholders, providing authoritative advice that balances value for money, scalability, sustainability and risk.

You will be a strategic thinker with strong consultancy skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

You will bring:

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect within complex organisations
• Experience aligning business strategy to enterprise-wide technical roadmaps
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF essential; Zachman desirable)
• Practical experience using modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience working across multi-disciplinary delivery teams
• Knowledge of secure development practices and solution security principles (e.g. OWASP, NCSC guidance)
• Understanding of data protection best practice (e.g. GDPR)
• Experience establishing architecture governance and standards
• TOGAF certification

Highly Desirable

• Experience working within secure or Defence environments
• Active SC clearance or eligibility to obtain clearance
• Experience within UK Central Government
• Familiarity with ArchiMate or similar modelling languages