Role:Enterprise Architect
Location:Porton Down, Salisbury / Ports down West, Fareham hybrid with occasional travel to site.
Duration:12months
RoleType:Contract (INSIDEIR35)
Salary:Dependingonexperience
AbouttheRole:
Enterprise Architects will act as senior leaders, shaping and owning the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps across business, technology and data. The role focuses on enabling delivery at pace, influencing cross-cutting capabilities, and guiding complex, high-risk architectural decisions across portfolios and programs.Candidates must be comfortable operating at enterprise scale, influencing senior stakeholders, and working across organizational and government boundaries.
KeyResponsibilities:
1. Own and evolve enterprise architecture strategy, roadmaps and target states (as-is, to-be, transitional).
2. Identify and prioritise enterprise-wide change initiatives
3. Lead architectural decisions across multiple domains and programmes
4. Establish and govern architecture principles, standards and policies
5. Advise on reuse, scalability, sustainability and value for money
6. Assure alignment of business, technology and data decisions to EA strategy
7. Conduct horizon scanning (industry, technology, policy trends)
8. Build and develop the architecture community
9. Influence sen...