Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect

• Location: East Sussex
• 6 days per month expected onsite
• Job Type: 6-month fixed term contract
• Salary: From £74,745 per annum through to £90,000 per annum

An exciting new opportunity has become available, working with a growing public sector body, for a Principal Enterprise Architect to provide architecture leadership across the business organisation. This role involves defining and maintaining target and transition architectures, ensuring alignment with our strategies, frameworks, policies, principles, and standards. You will be reporting directly to the Head of Architecture & Design.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Ensure alignment with organisational strategies, frameworks, policies, principles, and standards.
• Network and communicate with senior stakeholders, actively seeking opportunities for improvement.
• Support multiple communities and teams, utilising best practices and emerging technologies.
• Inspire other architects and help them understand how to meet organisational goals.
• Horizon scan for external influences or risks and support the successful delivery of the long-term strategy.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Broad knowledge of data, application, technology, and security architecture.
• Proven track record of applying Enterprise Architecture frameworks and tools to deliver business outcomes, ideally within a financial services organisation or a regulator.
• Experience in defining and maintaining target and transition architectures.
• Proficient in managing and optimising architecture governance processes.
• Experience with complex distributed systems involving event-driven architecture and domain-driven design.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft technologies such as Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Fabric, Copilot, and Microsoft 365.
• Good understanding of the pensions and retirement industry.
• Working knowledge of government frameworks and standards.

Key Skills:

• Architectural Communication: Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels using architecture communication techniques.
• Commercial Perspective: Skilled in identifying appropriate contractual frameworks and approaches, evaluating and selecting suppliers.
• Community Collaboration: Expertise in solving and unblocking issues between teams or departments at the highest level.
• Enterprise Architecture: Leadership in designing architectures needed to achieve organisational objectives.
• Making Architectural Decisions: Ability to make and guide decisions characterised by high levels of risk and complexity.
• Problem Definition and Shaping: Lead in framing complex problems to enable solution creation.
• Strategy Design: Define and connect strategies or visions across the organisation or wider government.

Accountability:

• Define and maintain target and transition architectures.
• Create and maintain architecture roadmaps, guardrails, and playbooks.
• Manage processes to align and refine digital, data, and technology target and transition architectures.
• Optimize architecture governance processes.
• Shape the architecture and design community of practice and increase adoption of architecture tools.
• Identify and realise operational efficiencies and cost savings through business alignment and proactive application portfolio management.
• Foster clear communication and effective collaboration between stakeholders.

To apply, please submit your CV to be considered immediately.