Key Responsibilities
• Collaborate with colleagues across other disciplines to ensure consideration of architecture at all stages of the delivery lifecycle and to ensure input into architecture processes.
• Collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisation's needs
• Guide client organisations to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk
• Understand client’s ecosystem and interdependencies, including reference architectures
• Lead and influence the delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that enable change
• Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy
• Contributes to the creation or review of architecture strategy that meets the requirements of the business.
• Contribute to the Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states for customers
• Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes
• Contribute to architectural principles, policies and standards
• Ensures adherence to applicable standards (corporate, industry, national and international).
• Guide client organisations to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk
• Provide advice, leadership and mentoring for teams, defining standards and best practices
• Act as pre-sales architect for bids and proposals, assisting with estimation and planning.
• Participate in business development providing architectural input and meeting with clients to secure new business.
• Work as part of a team to develop architectures for industry focused sales propositions.
• Creates technology roadmaps that align organisational plans with emerging technology solutions. Engages with, and influences, relevant stakeholders to obtain organisational commitment to technology roadmaps.
• Identification of new and emerging industry trends, software, technologies, products, services, methods and techniques and the assessment of their relevance and potential value for solutions, improvements in cost/performance or sustainability.
• Mentor junior team members, providing feedback and support to career development.
• Participate in development of internal architecture capability, including contributing to identification and definition of best practices, standards and ways of working.
• Plans and leads the identification and assessment of emerging technologies and the evaluation of potential impacts, threats and opportunities.
Technologies, Methodologies and Frameworks:
• Experience of common Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman etc…
• Experience of Secure Software Development Lifecycle processes and methodologies.
• Knowledge and experience of using Architecture modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for handling personal data. E.g., GDPR.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice for solution security. E.g., OWASP, NCSC cloud security principles.
• Knowledge and experience of applying best practice within one or more specialist architecture domains.
• Strong understanding and practical experience of working with multi-discipline teams to deliver complex technology services.
• TOGAF certified with experience of applying the framework in a client environment.
• Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology