About Squarcle / The Team
Squarcle is a growing strategy and operations consultancy dedicated to ensuring clients possess well‑defined strategies and supply chains aligned to deliver a performance advantage. We pride ourselves on a people‑oriented culture and build a family of high‑performing experts tackling the evolving challenges of the global supply chain. Unlike many consultancies, Squarcle is equally devoted to delivery and design.
Job Overview / Introduction
As an Enterprise Architect (Manager), you will support the definition and governance of strategic technology roadmaps and reference architectures for client organisations, ensuring alignment with long‑term business strategy, industry trends, and emerging opportunities. You will establish reusable principles, standards, and patterns that enable cohesive, scalable, and future‑proof solutions across portfolios. Operating at executive, programme and project levels in a client‑facing advisory capacity, you will shape transformation strategies, lead architecture governance forums, and provide thought leadership that delivers sustainable business value through optimised technology investments and seamless integration across the digital ecosystem.
Primary Roles And Responsibilities
Client Engagement and Leadership
* Provide strategic technology advice to senior client stakeholders such as CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and business directors, clearly articulating trade‑offs, risks, and recommendations.
* Shape major change and transformation programmes in collaboration with client executives, contributing architectural insight to business cases, options analyses, and investment decisions.
* Engage directly with clients, onsite and remotely, to address complex and strategically important technology challenges, applying deep technical expertise and pragmatic delivery experience.
* Act as an authoritative voice on technology direction at executive and programme levels, influencing long‑term technology strategy and aligning decisions to business outcomes.
Architecture Ownership
* Define and maintain the client’s target enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operating models and regulatory context.
* Develop and own multi‑year technology roadmaps spanning applications, data, infrastructure and security.
* Establish and govern architecture principles, standards and reference models that drive consistency, re‑use and architectural coherence across portfolios.
* Lead enterprise‑level architecture assessments and gap analyses, identifying rationalisation, modernisation and cost‑optimisation opportunities within the technology estate.
* Oversee the coherence of multiple solution architectures, ensuring they integrate into a unified, scalable, secure and strategically aligned enterprise landscape.
* Create enterprise‑wide architectural artefacts (e.g. capability maps, application and data landscapes, integration blueprints) to support decision‑making and transformation planning.
Delivery Leadership and Technical Governance
* Chair or play a leading role in architecture governance forums, such as the Squarcle Digital Governance Board, assuring all designs align with enterprise standards and security principles.
* Manage multi‑stream digital delivery within regulated, high‑security Defence environments, leading teams of 5‑15 consultants and ensuring solutions are designed for scale and resilience.
* Collaborate with delivery and programme teams to ensure architecture is translated into executable plans and that anticipated business and technology benefits are realised.
* Support risk and assurance activities by reviewing major programmes, identifying enterprise‑level architectural risks and dependencies, and ensuring they are managed effectively.
* Ensure multi‑domain non‑functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, and data governance, are designed into and validated within proposed solutions.
People Leadership and Practice Development
* Mentor G1‑G3 consultants.
* Develop and maintain reusable enterprise assets (frameworks, templates, reference architectures, secure patterns, agentic AI models) for use across engagements.
* Support business development by contributing high‑quality enterprise architecture insight to bids, proposals, and client presentations.
* Deliver robust architectural quality assurance across all deliverables, ensuring they meet agreed standards, principles, and best‑practice expectations.
Secondary Roles And Responsibilities
* Contribute to the development and continual enhancement of internal business methodologies, ensuring the practice remains modern, efficient, and aligned to industry best practice.
* Facilitate and actively participate in communities of practice, promoting knowledge exchange and collaborative problem‑solving across architecture, technology, and consulting domains.
* Create and deliver high‑quality thought leadership, such as white papers, blogs, frameworks, or conference presentations.
* Engage with partner vendors and technology alliances, building awareness of emerging capabilities and ensuring relevant roadmaps are understood and incorporated into client strategies.
* Support internal resourcing and capability planning, providing insight into skills requirements and competency development needed to grow a high‑performing architecture practice.
* Maintain clear, structured, and auditable architectural documentation, including decisions, exceptions, waivers, and governance outcomes.
* Deliver structured performance reporting and professional development support for junior colleagues as a Performance Manager, ensuring clear growth pathways and alignment with Squarcle’s competency framework.
* Support the structured development of Squarcle’s graduate programme and junior consultants, offering coaching, feedback, and opportunities for applied learning.
Essential – Knowledge, Skills & Experience
* Active Security Clearance (or capable of achieving SC).
* Degree‑level qualification (2:1 or above) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
* Significant practical enterprise architecture experience (5+ years) at senior/strategic level.
* Strong background in digital transformation, cloud adoption and modernisation of legacy estates.
* Proven experience working in a consulting or professional services environment, engaging directly with senior client stakeholders.
* Deep understanding of common EA frameworks and practices (TOGAF primarily, plus NAF, MODAF, etc.).
* Track record of leading architecture governance, standards definition and assurance across multiple programmes or portfolios.
* Experience developing and maintaining enterprise‑wide artefacts such as capability maps, application and data landscapes, and integration blueprints.
* Solid knowledge of cloud platforms (primarily Azure; knowledge of AWS or GCP preferred), integration patterns, data platforms and cybersecurity principles at an enterprise level.
* Ability to apply the Microsoft Azure Well‑Architected Framework to design and review cloud workloads across reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and performance efficiency.
* Evidence of influencing major investment decisions through options analysis, business cases and total cost of ownership assessments.
* Experience coordinating and aligning multiple solution architectures to a coherent target enterprise architecture.
* Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop solution architects and senior technologists, building architecture capability within teams.
Desirable
* Relevant enterprise architecture certifications (e.g. TOGAF, ArchiMate, Zachman, BCS Enterprise Stakeholder).
* Experience with enterprise architecture tools (Sparx EA, Archi, LeanIX, Orbus iServer, Bizzdesign).
* ITIL 4 Managing Professional (service management).
* Previous work in regulated sectors (financial services, defence, public sector, energy, healthcare) with complex compliance requirements.
* Practical experience with solution architecture and cloud architecture certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Enterprise Architect).
* Exposure to industry‑standard EA frameworks applied within consulting engagements.
* Experience leading large‑scale enterprise transformation programmes.
* Knowledge of IT operating model design and target state operating models (e.g. Scaled Agile, DevOps at enterprise scale).
Benefits
* Generous leave package
o 26 days of annual leave (including birthday) plus UK bank holidays; 27 days after three years; 28 after seven years.
o Five extra days for five‑year and ten‑year anniversaries.
o Additional leave for members of the Reserve Forces and CFAV.
* Private medical insurance, provided once probation is completed.
* Recognition and rewards
o £1,000 referral bonus for successful hires.
o Performance‑related awards.
o Milestone and life‑event hampers to celebrate major events.
* Development & learning
o Annual training week abroad.
o Funding for qualifications that benefit both you and the business.
* Travel & wellbeing
o Cycle to work scheme.
o Discounted travel through funded railcards.
* Pension
o Pension contributions: 3% employer, 5% employee.
Working Hours
8:30 am – 5:30 pm (with an hour for lunch), Monday – Friday.
Additional Information
This role requires you to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years and obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. Clearance must be obtained without any caveats that prevent you from carrying out the role. If clearance isn’t obtained within 6 months, any conditional offer may be withdrawn. We do not offer visa sponsorship.
We’re committed to creating a diverse environment. We embrace differences and hire based on merit, giving equal consideration to all applications, regardless of gender, background, and race.
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