Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Contract Length: 6 months, extendable
IR35: Inside IR35
Location: West Midlands
Working Pattern: 100% remote with ad hoc office visits (2 3 days per month)
Day Rate: £575
We are seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to support a major strategic infrastructure programme within the utility sector. This is a high-impact role focused on shaping the enterprise architecture across a complex joint-venture environment, helping define the systems, capabilities, integrations, data flows and non-functional requirements needed to support a large-scale transformation programme.
This role would suit an experienced Enterprise Architect who is comfortable operating in a heavily matrixed environment, influencing senior stakeholders, and producing architecture materials that support strategic decision-making at programme and steering committee level.
Key Experience:
* JV architecture / Multi org alignment and solution definition
* Non‑functional, security, and regulatory assurance
Key Responsibilities:
* Act as the primary architecture resource for a major strategic infrastructure programme.
* Identify business capabilities, requirements, key systems and data lifecycles within scope.
* Analyse gaps between current-state and target-state architecture, including systems, data, integration and NFRs.
* Work closely with security SMEs to ensure proposed solutions align with required security controls.
* Assess vendor and internal technology roadmaps to understand future impacts and opportunities.
* Identify integration points, system dependencies and potential enterprise architecture options.
* Review regulatory, commercial and policy constraints affecting systems and data.
* Recommend suitable solution options across a complex joint-venture environment.
* Produce and maintain architecture materials for senior review and governance forums.
* Ensure solutions align with the agreed strategic architecture approach and support delivery at pace.
* Use architectural models, reports and insights to support strategic planning and decision-making.
If this is of interest please apply below and attach your CV accordingly. WE will then reach out via phone for a technical chat. Utilities and energy sector experience is highly desirable.