Enterprise Architect - London - £625 per day Umbrella - CONTRCT

We are recruiting for a Enterprise Architect to be based in London on contract for a leading television organisation.

The Lead Enterprise Architect will work as part of a team reporting to a Head of Architecture to design and realise the implementation of the Technology Strategy and Architecture, transforming and modernising the technology platforms and services used in the collection, administration, enforcement and marketing of the products

Strategic Design and Architecture

• Develop high-level enterprise architecture interim and target state blueprints

Architecture Road mapping

• Define and develop roadmap evolving from current to target architecture.

Architecture Governance

• Champion architectural governance and ensure solutions align with strategic principles.
• Defining and governing architectural standards across data, AI/ML and identity ecosystems. This includes ensuring coherence across Real Time and batch processing, machine learning enablement platforms, and customer identity services, while maintaining regulatory compliance, managing risk, and ensuring long-term technical sustainability.
• Establishing architectural approaches that enable responsible AI and ML at scale, balancing innovation and experimentation with appropriate governance and safety.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in designing complex, distributed, secure and scalable end to end architecture solutions within complex organisations.
• Significant experience as a technical enterprise architect (or similar role), including defining and delivering a technical vision and strategy, and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures.
• Strong knowledge of architecture best practices and design patterns, including:
• Strong experience in designing and modelling Complex Billing Models, Complex Customer journeys, Customer Hierarchies, Data Models.
• Ability to design conceptual and logical data models.
• Experience of database architectures and data modelling, SQL and NoSQL approaches and AWS database services.
• Sound experience working with a broad range of integration architectural patterns (eg SOA and microservices, etc)
• Sound understanding of modern web architecture and Serverless architecture
• Knowledge of container orchestration (eg Kubernetes)
• In depth knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically AWS, but including Azure, GCP etc.
• Proven experience of conducting technical workshops, presenting technical solutions, preparing architecture guidelines and technical strategy documents.
• Experience of producing high quality UML based architecture artefacts.
• Familiar with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, TM Forum, etc) and capable of suggesting new tools/process.
• Good understanding of information security and data protection principles
• Technology sector experience (for example mobile carrier/core enterprise systems); experience of designing and transitioning large scale billing systems/services
• Knowledge of a broad range of technology concepts such as cloud computing (eg AWS), micro-service architectures, event-driven architectures and data processing at scale. You will work with a range of specialist teams which may include machine learning, APIs and networking, and client applications (on web, mobile).

• Experience in designing complex, distributed, secure and scalable end to end architecture solutions within complex organisations.
• Significant experience as a technical enterprise architect (or similar role), including defining and delivering a technical vision and strategy, and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures.
• Strong knowledge of architecture best practices and design patterns, including:
• Strong experience in designing and modelling Complex Billing Models, Complex Customer journeys, Customer Hierarchies, Data Models.
• Ability to design conceptual and logical data models.
• Experience of database architectures and data modelling, SQL and NoSQL approaches and AWS database services.
• Sound experience working with a broad range of integration architectural patterns (eg SOA and microservices, etc)
• Sound understanding of modern web architecture and Serverless architecture
• Knowledge of container orchestration (eg Kubernetes)
• In depth knowledge of cloud platforms, specifically AWS, but including Azure, GCP etc.
• Proven experience of conducting technical workshops, presenting technical solutions, preparing architecture guidelines and technical strategy documents.
• Experience of producing high quality UML based architecture artefacts.
• Familiar with Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF, TM Forum, etc) and capable of suggesting new tools/process.
• Good understanding of information security and data protection principles
• Technology sector experience (for example mobile carrier/core enterprise systems); experience of designing and transitioning large scale billing systems/services
• Knowledge of a broad range of technology concepts such as cloud computing (eg AWS), micro-service architectures, event-driven architectures and data processing at scale. You will work with a range of specialist teams which may include machine learning, APIs and networking, and client applications (on web, mobile).