Overview
Sword Group is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change for clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We are committed to solving business problems through technology and partnering with clients to help achieve their goals.
About The Role
As the Senior Enterprise Architect, you will shape the future of the UK's energy grid. This is a senior, board-facing role where your expertise will influence how services are designed, governed, and delivered across a major infrastructure programme. You will work across a joint venture environment, ensuring coherence between partner organisations and aligning architecture and strategy to enable a resilient, scalable and customer-focused energy system.
As the strategic voice at the table, you will present enterprise architecture vision and service strategies to senior leaders and board members, guiding decisions at the highest level. You will balance stakeholder needs, embed governance and standards across a complex environment, and shape the target state for operating and service models that enable innovation, scalability and long-term resilience. You will act as a trusted advisor to executives and programme teams, providing clarity and confidence to critical strategic outcomes. This role contributes to the UK's transition to net zero and helps deliver an energy system that serves generations to come.
Contract is offered on an initial 6-12 month basis, with strong potential for extension.
Responsibilities
* Lead enterprise-level architecture across a high-profile joint venture, ensuring strategic alignment between partner organisations.
* Present architectural vision, service models, and transformation roadmaps to board and executive stakeholders.
* Define and shape service design principles at enterprise level, ensuring services are scalable, resilient, and customer-focused.
* Drive future-state operating models to support Transmission's growth and transformation ambitions.
* Establish architectural governance frameworks and embed best practice across programmes.
* Act as a trusted advisor to leadership, identifying opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement.
Requirements
* A proven track record as a senior Enterprise Architect or equivalent, providing leadership across large-scale transformation and change.
* Experience engaging directly with boards and executive leadership, with the ability to influence complex strategic decisions.
* Strong expertise in service strategy, business architecture, and enterprise-level design, with the ability to define and oversee future-state operating and service models that are scalable, resilient, and aligned to business needs.
* Confidence navigating multi-party governance environments, ideally with experience in joint ventures or similarly complex structures.
* Familiarity with renowned architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman) and enterprise modelling tools.
* Exceptional ability to simplify complexity, communicate clearly, and build trusted relationships at the highest level.
Benefits
At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring for our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where everyone is encouraged to contribute to achieve success.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your professional development and quality of life, including a competitive salary and:
* Personalised Career Development: A development plan tailored to your goals with learning opportunities in a growth-oriented culture.
* Flexible working: Flexible arrangements to support work-life balance. We aim to accommodate individual preferences where possible.
* A comprehensive benefits package: Generous annual leave, enhanced family-friendly benefits, pension, private health, well-being and insurance schemes, employee assistance program, discount programs, and more.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you don’t tick every box but have relevant transferable skills, please apply and highlight your experience. We value diversity in age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, and other characteristics. Your perspective and potential are important to us.
If we can help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support adjustments.
Additional Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Contract
* Job function: Information Technology
* Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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