SC/DV Enterprise Architect

Location: South West (hybrid; travel to client sites as required)
Security: Active SC required (must be willing/eligible to progress to DV)
Type: Permanent
Package: £85,000 - £105,000 Basic, plus bonus and add-ons

Overview

We're hiring an Enterprise Architect to support complex, security-sensitive programmes. You'll work with senior stakeholders to shape enterprise-level solutions, define target states and roadmaps, and provide hands-on architecture leadership through delivery. You MUST have a strong defence background.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise/business/technology architecture across multiple workstreams
• Produce appropriate architecture deliverables (eg HLDs, operating models, roadmaps, transition states)
• Facilitate design decision-making and alignment across technical and business stakeholders
• Guide architecture and modelling activities using recognised frameworks and methods
• Support governance, design assurance and approval processes
• Coach/lead small teams of architects and systems engineers, setting priorities and shaping technical scope

Essential

• Strong track record designing and overseeing delivery of complex IT solutions/services in secure environments
• Expertise tailoring and applying architecture approaches/frameworks such as NAF, UAF, ArchiMate/SysML
• Broad technical awareness across areas like cloud, identity, secure-by-design, infrastructure & networking, cyber/security controls, service management
• Confident producing clear architecture views and communicating to mixed audiences (technical + non-technical)
• Experience with modelling tools (eg Sparx EA, BizzDesign or equivalent)
• Proven stakeholder management at senior level; able to act as a trusted architecture advisor

Desirable

• Interoperability standards/taxonomies experience (eg FMN, NATO-aligned approaches)
• Data-centric interoperability/security principles (eg ACP240)