Enterprise Architect

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Active clearance at DV level
• Significant experience in enterprise, infrastructure, systems, or security architecture, including defining, governing, and assuring complex technical architectures in regulated, security-focused, or operationally critical environments
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, systems integration, technology strategy, and architectural governance, with experience developing architecture standards, design principles, governance frameworks, technology roadmaps, and integration strategies across complex technology portfolios
• Proven ability to assess architectural risks, evaluate technical trade-offs, and review, challenge, and assure solution architectures, technical designs, and strategic technology decisions
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Level 6 qualification in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology, Cyber Security, or a related STEM discipline, or equivalent professional experience, together with membership of a relevant professional institution or equivalent professional standing

Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise architecture for capability development and transition programmes
• Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, integration patterns, and technology roadmaps
• Develop target-state architectures that support strategic objectives, operational requirements, and future capability needs
• Establish and maintain architecture governance frameworks, review processes, and assurance activities
• Act as the architectural design authority, providing independent challenge and oversight of solution architectures, technical designs, and major technology changes
• Ensure architectures adopt a security-by-design approach throughout the capability lifecycle
• Engage with operational, technical, business, and security stakeholders to translate requirements into enterprise architecture outcomes
• Advise on architecture strategy, governance, technology investment, and technical risk

Technologies:

• Architect
• Support
• Security

More:

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect for an 18-month contract with a government department. Reporting to the Head of Capability Transition, you will provide strategic architectural leadership across technology, infrastructure, security, and information domains, supporting a major capability programme and other capability development initiatives. You will lead the Technology & Architecture workstream and help ensure capability investments align with organisational objectives, technical security requirements, and long-term national security outcomes. The role is hybrid, with two days onsite per week, and pays around £600 per day inside IR35.

last updated 40 week of 2026