Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Contract Length: 6 months, extendable

IR35: Inside IR35

Location: West Midlands

Working Pattern: 100% remote with ad hoc office visits (2 3 days per month)

Day Rate: £575

We are seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to support a major strategic infrastructure programme within the utility sector. This is a high-impact role focused on shaping the enterprise architecture across a complex joint-venture environment, helping define the systems, capabilities, integrations, data flows and non-functional requirements needed to support a large-scale transformation programme.

This role would suit an experienced Enterprise Architect who is comfortable operating in a heavily matrixed environment, influencing senior stakeholders, and producing architecture materials that support strategic decision-making at programme and steering committee level.

Key Experience:

• JV architecture / Multi org alignment and solution definition
• Non‐functional, security, and regulatory assurance

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary architecture resource for a major strategic infrastructure programme.
• Identify business capabilities, requirements, key systems and data lifecycles within scope.
• Analyse gaps between current-state and target-state architecture, including systems, data, integration and NFRs.
• Work closely with security SMEs to ensure proposed solutions align with required security controls.
• Assess vendor and internal technology roadmaps to understand future impacts and opportunities.
• Identify integration points, system dependencies and potential enterprise architecture options.
• Review regulatory, commercial and policy constraints affecting systems and data.
• Recommend suitable solution options across a complex joint-venture environment.
• Produce and maintain architecture materials for senior review and governance forums.
• Ensure solutions align with the agreed strategic architecture approach and support delivery at pace.
• Use architectural models, reports and insights to support strategic planning and decision-making.

If this is of interest please apply below and attach your CV accordingly. WE will then reach out via phone for a technical chat. Utilities and energy sector experience is highly desirable.