Lead Enterprise Architect
Job Title: Lead Enterprise Architect
Location: UK (Hybrid, once per week onsite - London)
Contract: Initial 6 Month Contract
Rate: Circa £700 Per Day (IR35 Status TBC)
I am working with one of our longstanding clients who have a fantastic reputation as a leading technology and services provider. Currently, they are looking for an experienced Lead Enterprise Architect to play a crucial role in the design and implementation of a business critical and high priority project that will transform and modernise their primary revenue source.
What you'll do
- Full ownership of the enterprise architecture strategy for a large-scale transformation of customer, billing and revenue platforms
- Lead the move away from legacy systems into a modern, cloud-first environment that improves performance, scalability, and customer experience
- Define the target architecture and set a clear, deliverable roadmap from current state to future state across multiple platforms
- Drive architecture across core domains including billing, revenue management, customer platforms, and data
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, Data and Delivery to ensure technology decisions align with commercial and operational goals
- Set the standards. Establish governance across cloud, data, identity and emerging AI capabilities
- Own key technology decisions including vendor strategy and "build vs buy" across critical platforms
- Design platforms that operate at scale: High volume, high availability, and no room for failure
- Lead the shift towards platform-based architecture with clear ownership and long-term sustainability
- Turn complex business problems into clear, structured architectural direction
- Bring control without slowing things down. Balance governance, risk, and innovation across the estate
- Use proof of concepts to test ideas, challenge assumptions and introduce new capability.
Skills & Experience required
- Proven track record of operating at Enterprise Architect level or a Principal/Lead Solution Architect ready to step up, with ownership of architecture across complex environments
- A strong track record designing end-to-end architecture for large, distributed systems.
- Demonstrable experience of shaping and delivering technical strategy including defining target architecture and roadmaps
- Strong exposure to billing, revenue, or large-scale customer platforms.
- Cloud-first mindset with strong AWS experience.
- High level of experience in designing modern architectures using microservices, APIs, event-driven patterns, and serverless
- High level of understanding of data architecture, including data modelling and working across high-volume data environments
- Experience setting standards, governance and improving structure, consistency, and clear direction across multiple teams
- A proven track record of working with senior stakeholders and translating complex requirements into clear architectural decisions
- Commercial awareness and experience with vendor strategy and build vs buy decisions
- A background in large, complex organisations.
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