Position: Enterprise Architect (Interim)
Location: 70 Redcliff, BS1 6AL
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Duration: 6+ Months
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Pay Rate: PAYE: £800.00 per day
Job Responsibilities:
- Support the delivery of the Digital and Data Strategy by creating enterprise architecture plans, target architectures, and technology roadmaps
- Assess the current technology and data environment to identify gaps, duplication, risks, and opportunities for improvement or consolidation
- Develop clear architecture roadmaps to support short-term delivery needs and long-term technology goals
- Create and maintain business capability models, ensuring business capabilities align with strategic priorities and transformation plans
- Define enterprise data architecture, including data platforms, data flows, integration patterns, data governance, and data management approaches
- Work with Data Architects to improve data quality, data standards, business glossary, and management of structured and unstructured data
- Review and manage application portfolios, identifying opportunities for application rationalisation, replacement, and consolidation
- Develop application and integration architecture, including API-first approaches, integration standards, and decision frameworks
- Support CRM and case management system consolidation activities
- Create technology improvement plans and support the development of security and cyber architecture roadmaps
- Define enterprise architecture standards, principles, governance processes, and technical guardrails
- Establish and support architecture review processes to provide guidance and assurance for projects and programmes
- Provide architecture advice for technology decisions, procurement activities, and digital transformation initiatives
- Define non-functional requirements and ensure solutions meet business, security, and technical standards
- Develop guidance and governance for AI tools, integration approaches, and architecture decisions
- Help establish long-term Enterprise Architecture capability by embedding effective processes, governance, and ways of working
- Work closely with senior leaders, technical teams, and business stakeholders to ensure technology decisions support organisational goals
Person Specifications:
- Proven experience working as an Enterprise Architect in complex organisations
- Experience delivering enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps, and target architectures
- Experience working in public sector or large multi-stakeholder environments is highly desirable
- Strong experience assessing current technology landscapes and identifying improvement opportunities
- Experience with technology consolidation, system rationalisation, and integration design
- Good understanding of business architecture, capability models, and linking business needs with technology solutions
- Experience with data architecture, data governance, and modern data management practices
- Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and data platform technologies
- Experience with application integration approaches, APIs, and enterprise system connectivity
- Understanding of CRM and case management system consolidation
- Experience creating architecture standards, governance frameworks, and decision-making processes
- Knowledge of cyber security architecture and technology risk management
- Ability to translate business strategies into practical technology solutions
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to work with senior leaders, delivery teams, and external partners
- Comfortable balancing immediate project needs with long-term strategic technology direction
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment with 2 days per week in the Bristol office
Job Reference: 5299750
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months
Pay: £800.00 per day
Experience:
- Enterprise Architect: 4 years (required)
- architecture strategies, target architectures, roadmaps: 4 years (required)
- digital transformation programmes : 4 years (required)
- Business Architecture, including capability modelling: 4 years (required)
- Data Architecture and Data Governance: 4 years (required)
- MS Azure and modern cloud data platforms and Databricks: 4 years (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
