This is an opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to provide expertise and support to a wide range of complex defence projects.

The role.

As an Enterprise Architect, your work will provide strategy, business analysis, technology and procurement consultancy and ensure these solutions align with wider business aspirations.

You’ll be working at an enterprise level and will be in support of our client’s major transformation programmes or at the level of targeted projects and interventions.

The Enterprise Architect will be involved in the production of high-quality, formal deliverables as well as review the formal deliverables developed by others.

Your role as an Enterprise Architect will involve significant stakeholder engagement. You will deal directly with the client, resolving day-day issues involved in assignment delivery and developing follow-on opportunities. Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills are essential.

Day to day, the Enterprise Architect will work to analyse and develop architectures across the Business, Data, Applications and Infrastructure domains. You will also have an understanding of the technologies and operational processes required to achieve this.

You will

• Generate genuinely useful outcomes to help deliver the client’s goals in major business transformation programmes;
• Hands-on analysis, not just assurance, including working with clients, users and other team members to address issues before they become blockers;
• Develop and review strategies and target architectures to support future delivery of ICT services to meet the client’s business needs and in accordance with the Government’s ICT and other strategies;
• Provide close support and strategic input to delivery teams, including Agile software delivery;
• Develop and review baseline and transition architectures to support the client’s migration planning of ICT services within a business change programme;
• Develop architecture views to describe all aspects of a client’s organisation including its Business, Applications, Data and Infrastructure;
• Provide EA leadership to a client to help mature the organisation’s architecture governance and develop best practice.

About you.

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who has significant experience in the following areas.

• Enterprise and Technical Architecture development and review using EA frameworks and methods e.g. TOGAF, MODAF;
• Government Digital Service approaches including the Government Service Design Manual and the Digital by Default service standard;
• Business or systems analysis methods and tools, e.g. BPMN, UML;
• Software development methods and techniques e.g. Agile methods such as SCRUM;
• Programme and Project Management methods e.g. MSP, PRINCE2, DSDM, Scaled Agile Framework;
• Public sector best practice guidance, e.g. ITIL, OGC toolkit;
• Business case development to Treasury guidelines.

Please note.

Candidates must be eligible and willing to gain UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.

Ignite Digital Talent are committed to creating equal opportunities, and welcome job applications from all who are qualified and eligible to working in the UK, regardless of colour, ethnic or national origin, race, gender, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, religious or political beliefs, marital status, or family circumstances.