Enterprise Architect- Integration Architecture

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect - Integration Architecture to lead the development of strategic technology direction, reusable patterns, and architectural standards across our integration domain.

As part of the Strategic Architecture team, you'll play a pivotal role in defining and delivering long-term business and digital capabilities. You'll work across both technology and operational domains, influencing investment decisions, mentoring architects, and engaging senior stakeholders across government and internationally.This is a high-impact role where your leadership will directly shape how our client delivers integrated, sustainable, and future-ready services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of integration architecture strategy, vision, and roadmaps.
• Inspire and guide architects across mixed grades and backgrounds.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to shape business and technology strategy.
• Identify and exploit emerging technologies through innovation pilots and proofs of concept.
• Define and maintain architectural standards and reusable patterns.
• Assure solution designs for consistency, sustainability, and strategic alignment.
• Contribute to investment cases and whole-life costing for business and IT change.
• Provide architectural input into commercial tenders and supplier evaluations.
• Mentor and upskill architects

Key Skills Required:

• Proven experience in enterprise or domain-level architecture within integration.
• A track record of leading architecture teams and mentoring others.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
• Experience in setting architectural guardrails and driving adoption.
• Civil Service experience required
• Ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

In return, you will receive the opportunity to support a major government department. The possibility to work on a 6-month paying up to £850 p/day (in scope of IR35).

This role will require you to be on site up to 3 days a week in any of our hubs: York, Newcastle, Warrington, Bristol, Birmingham, London, Peterborough, Reading and Weybridge.If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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