The Enterprise Architect ensures alignment of business application data and technology with strategic direction, governance, policies, and standards. This role involves holistic analysis and design, supporting the organisation's transformation as a multi-sourcing digital business.
Client Details
Our client is a public sector organisation - As such it offers incredible benefits and stability, and increasingly diverse range of programmes and hybrid flexible working arrangements.
Description
- Architecture Design: Develop and implement ICT solutions, technology roadmaps, and design standards across the organization.
- Strategic Oversight: Define "as-is" and "to-be" architectures, prepare technical artifacts for GDS assessments, and develop business cases.
- Complex Problem Solving: Analyse and address complex business problems, translating designs into user-friendly processes and systems.
- Standardization: Set direction for standards, tools, techniques, and methods, ensuring consistency and alignment with organizational goals.
- Technology Monitoring: Evaluate new and emerging tools and technologies to enhance organizational capabilities.
- Lead research initiatives and keep abreast of technological advances.
- Develop domain knowledge and expertise, and support the organization's future needs through continuous learning.
- Develop partnerships within the organization and with external stakeholders.
- Engage in procurement, ensuring compliance with policies and handling commercial and financial information sensitively.
- Lead strategic procurement of hardware and software.
- Ensure delivery of quality outputs and alignment with business and ICT strategic directions.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with Directors, SMT, Service Managers, Suppliers, and other internal and external stakeholder groups.
Profile
Essential Criteria
- Experience in business change, strategic planning, and implementation.
- Ability to evaluate and communicate complex data.
- Design of scalable enterprise solutions.
- Assurance of supplier designs.
- Broad technical knowledge in web applications, services, and cloud architectures.
- Excellent planning, organizational, and negotiation skills.
Experience
Essential
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship building.
- Translating strategy into innovative solutions.
- Experience with cloud technology, mobile apps, and collaborative tools.
- Designing architectures for high-volume digital services.
- Budget management and cost analysis.
- Communicating with stakeholders up to board level.
Essential
- Experience in IT Architecture, System Design, or ICT implementation.
Job Offer
This is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference in a public sector organisation going through a period of significant transformation. In addition to a salary of between £70,000 and £80,000 (DoE), there are some excellent benefits on offer which can be discussed during the screening process.
Additionally the role offers a good degree of hybrid working and flexibility.