Lead Enterprise Architect - Security Cleared

We are currently working with a client who are looking for a Security Cleared Lead Enterprise Architect to join them on a 12 month contract.

As a Digital Lead Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for ensuring design governance across the 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 the strategy, policy and design principles are adhered to whilst taking into account customer requirements to provide advice and direction.

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.
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.

Experience needed

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:
Experience of operating in a similar role in wider industry; public sector.
Working with a strategic outsource partner in a context applicable to the offered role.
Knowledge of working to the requirements for secure computing regarding policies and best practice (JSP440, SPF, GPG etc.) and their application within a secure environment.