Enterprise Architect

We need someone who can help us write a Bid (at no cost) and then be a part of the paid project if successful.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A VOLUNTARY ROLE INITIALLY AND WILL LEAD TO A PAID POSITION SUBJECT TO SUCESS WITH THE BID PROCESS.

Enterprise Architect – Digital Transformation

Contract: 16 weeks

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join a short-term digital transformation engagement with a UK organisation.

Working as part of a small, collaborative transformation team, you will assess the organisation’s current digital and technology landscape, identify transformation opportunities and help refine its Digital & IT Strategy.

This is not simply a high-level advisory role. We need an Enterprise Architect who is comfortable getting into the detail, carrying out architectural discovery and then translating findings into clear, pragmatic recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

· Review the current technology landscape, including systems, integrations, hosting and data flows.

· Assess architectural maturity, constraints, risks and opportunities.

· Participate in interviews and technical workshops with IT, digital and business stakeholders.

· Contribute architectural input to the current-state digital maturity assessment.

· Review previous digital delivery, including design decisions, delivery approaches and technical implementation.

· Identify architectural constraints, underlying issues and governance gaps.

· Assess alignment with relevant government digital standards, open standards and accessibility requirements.

· Review and refine the organisation’s Digital & IT Strategy from an architectural perspective.

· Identify gaps relating to technology choices, architecture, governance, security and delivery readiness.

· Help develop a sequenced and costed digital transformation roadmap.

· Ensure recommendations are technically feasible, scalable and aligned with good practice.

· Identify architectural dependencies, enablers and risks.

· Support assessment of the organisation’s cyber posture alongside a Cyber Specialist.

· Present architectural findings and recommendations clearly to senior and executive stakeholders.

Experience Required

You must have significant hands-on Enterprise Architecture experience.

We are particularly interested in people with:

· A strong Enterprise Architecture background.

· Experience of digital transformation programmes.

· Public-sector experience would be highly advantageous.

· Strong knowledge of cloud strategy and architecture.

· Legacy system modernisation experience.

· Integration architecture and integration patterns.

· Architectural and technical governance.

· Experience assessing complex existing technology environments.

· Familiarity with government digital standards and public-sector digital delivery would be beneficial.

· An understanding of Cyber Essentials Plus, accessibility and open standards.

· The ability to combine hands-on architectural analysis with strategic thinking.

· Strong stakeholder and executive-level communication skills.

Key Deliverables

The successful Enterprise Architect will contribute to:

· Current-state architecture and discovery analysis.

· Architecture maturity assessment.

· Review and assurance of previous digital delivery.

· Architecture gap analysis.

· Digital and IT strategy refinement.

· Future-state architecture.

· Digital transformation roadmap.

· Executive-level recommendations and presentation materials.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to make a significant contribution to a focused transformation programme, combining detailed architectural assessment with strategic direction.