Enterprise Architect is required to define the frameworks, standards and long-term target-state architectures needed to accelerate digital delivery across a large technology modernisation programme.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the modernisation of technology governance frameworks, ensuring they keep pace with modern engineering practices, including the use of AI in the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Defining standards, guardrails and architectural patterns that help product teams deliver safe, compliant and scalable digital services faster.
• Designing and implementing a repeatable framework for long-term target-state architecture development to guide technology decisions across domains.
• Delivering a pilot target-state architecture, covering business context, capabilities, platforms, data, integrations and a plan for retiring legacy systems.
• Creating a strategic roadmap for technology transformation initiatives, new development needs, software and platform replacements, and capability gaps.
• Supporting the review and update of the existing technology strategy to reflect new organisational priorities and compliance changes.
• Leading discovery phases to assess business needs, technology options and architectural requirements.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect, driving strategic, multi-domain technology transformations and designing architecture frameworks that translate into actionable, multi-year delivery roadmaps.
• Experience conducting structured strategy reviews and updating enterprise technology strategies in response to changing organisational landscapes.
• TOGAF certification or experience with the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture framework would be beneficial.
• Solid understanding of modern SDLC practices, DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of the risks and governance controls involved in integrating AI tools into development workflows.
• Enterprise integration patterns, including API-first and event-driven architectures, cloud-native design and modern data platforms experience.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including Enterprise Landing Zones, subscription models, governance and PaaS/SaaS.
• Familiarity with legacy modernisation strategies, including migration, refactoring and decommissioning.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to define business cases, roadmaps and investment implications for board-level stakeholders.
• Public Sector or Central Government experience, with a good understanding of the Technology Code of Practice and GDS service standards, would be beneficial.