FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Taunton, Somerset.
Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect who will work across different levels within the organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. You will take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with exposure to problem definition and shaping.
Responsibilities
1. Lead and influence the delivery of cross-cutting capabilities, enabling change
2. Identify opportunities for improvement while supporting a community or team, delivering team’s objectives to meet organisational goals
3. Identify influences or risks while being a key member to the successful delivery of the long-term strategy
4. Maintain the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps across domains, portfolios and programmes from a business, technology and data perspective, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states
5. Consult and support collaboration across the business while understanding the organisation’s ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures
6. Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk while utilising best practice
7. Establish architectural principles, policies as well as standards while developing the architecture community
8. Collaborate and consult with stakeholders across domains or enterprises, ensuring business, technology and data decisions align with enterprise architecture strategy
9. Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation