Enterprise Architect

Permanent - Hybrid working in Gloucestershire

Our client are in the early days of having formed a Group Technology function and require an Architect with proven experience to join their team to help mature the practice.

This position would be ideal for an individual with suitable knowledge/experience looking to step up into an Enterprise Architecture role.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborating in the definition and maintenance of the Group enterprise architecture approach and strategy, creating innovative and actionable plans, guiding and contributing to current projects and programmes to measure effectiveness of programs and return of investment goals
• Accountable for specifying architectural standards and patterns that support a secure, scalable governance and operating model
• Selecting technologies within a layered domain architecture to meet information technology and business requirements
• Refine standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate projects across the Group and for individual business units or regions
• Map out and maintain enterprise architecture views for different regional business units, feeding into the overall technology strategy
• Guide implementation teams on the choice of components, standards and patterns to use in the design and implementation phases, building out libraries of reusable elements and capabilities
• Adhere and contribute to Architecture principles and recommended practices through fit-for-purpose governance

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in working in or with Architecture roles (Enterprise Architects would be preferable) coupled with extensive senior stakeholder engagement experience and business administration and commercial/financial awareness and proven approaches to requirements soliciting and requirements prioritising in line with business strategic objectives.
• Experience integrating with Cloud/SaaS applications, APIs and Legacy applications with a strong understanding on how integration has evolved towards being a digital, cloud and API-driven capability
• Experience with the evaluation and selection of new technologies based on the supplied requirements including managing proof of concepts or 'spikes' to validate if a considered technology is capable of delivering against the requirements