Job Description
Location: South West (hybrid; travel to client sites as required)Security: Active SC required (must be willing/eligible to progress to DV)Type: PermanentPackage: £85,000 - £105,000 Basic, plus bonus and add-ons
Overview
We're hiring an Enterprise Architect to support complex, security-sensitive programmes. You'll work with senior stakeholders to shape enterprise-level solutions, define target states and roadmaps, and provide hands-on architecture leadership through delivery. You MUST have a strong defence background.
Responsibilities
* Lead enterprise/business/technology architecture across multiple workstreams
* Produce appropriate architecture deliverables (eg HLDs, operating models, roadmaps, transition states)
* Facilitate design decision-making and alignment across technical and business stakeholders
* Guide architecture and modelling activities using recognised frameworks and methods
* Support governance, design assurance and approval processes
* Coach/lead small teams of architects and systems engineers, setting priorities and shaping technical scope
Essential
* Strong track record designing and overseeing delivery of complex IT solutions/services in secure environments
* Expertise tailoring and applying architecture approaches/frameworks such as NAF, UAF, ArchiMate/SysML
* Broad technical awareness across areas like cloud, identity, secure-by-design, infrastructure & networking, cyber/security controls, service management
* Confident producing clear architecture views and communicating to mixed audiences (technical + non-technical)
* Experience with modelling tools (eg Sparx EA, BizzDesign or equivalent)
* Proven stakeholder management at senior level; able to act as a trusted architecture advisor
Desirable
* Interoperability standards/taxonomies experience (eg FMN, NATO-aligned approaches)
* Data-centric interoperability/security principles (eg ACP240)