Senior Enterprise Architect

Role: Senior Enterprise Architect - 12 month FTC

Location: Manchester, Cheltenham, London – Hybrid

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We are on a mission to make society a safer and more secure place. Our people are the ones who make that possible; a global community of talented individuals working together towards a safer future.

We aim to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We work together, we are brilliantly creative, we embrace difference and we want you to join in our mission, to make the world safer and more secure.

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The Opportunity:

The purpose of the Enterprise Architect role is to support the design and evolution of the organisation’s enterprise architecture and architectural governance to ensure alignment between business strategy, processes, information, technology, and infrastructure. This role acts as a strategic advisor, bridging business objectives with IT capabilities, and guiding large-scale transformation and modernisation initiatives, specifically the rationalisation of business applications

Responsibilities:

Strategic Architecture Planning:

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, principles, and standards.
• Align architecture strategy with business goals and objectives.
• Ensure vendor solutions align with enterprise architecture standards

Architecture Governance:

• Establish architecture review boards and enforce compliance with architectural standards.
• Maintain architecture documentation and ensure proper version control.

Technology and Capability Roadmaps:

• Develop current-state and future-state architecture views.
• Define and manage architecture roadmaps and transition states.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and solution architects to understand needs and provide architectural guidance.
• Communicate architectural decisions and their business impact.

Solution Design Oversight:

• Ensure that projects and solutions are aligned with the enterprise architecture.
• Provide input to solution and domain architects as required.

Risk and Cost Management:

• Evaluate emerging technologies and propose cost-effective, scalable solutions.
• Identify architectural risks and mitigate them through design and governance.

Key Priorities:

• Align enterprise architecture with strategic business transformation goals.
• Modernise legacy systems and infrastructure in line with future-state vision.
• Improve integration and interoperability across platforms and business units.
• Enable digital transformation, cloud adoption, and data-driven decision-making.
• Promote reuse, standardisation, and simplification of IT assets.

Qualifications and Skills:

Functional Skills:

• Enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman)
• Business capability and operating model design
• Strategic planning and transformation leadership
• Governance and compliance management
• Vendor and contract evaluation

Technical Skills:

• Architecture modelling tools (e.g., ArchiMate, Sparx EA, Bizzdesign)
• Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Integration technologies (e.g., APIs, microservices, ESBs)
• Data architecture and management
• Cybersecurity principles and architectural implications

Personal Attributes:

• Strategic Thinker: Able to connect technical decisions with business value.
• Influential Communicator: Clear, compelling communicator across business and technical audiences.
• Collaborative Leader: Works effectively across cross-functional teams and levels.
• Analytical: Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Resilient and Adaptable: Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Integrity: Committed to ethical principles and long-term organisational success.

Behaviours:

• Focusing on Clients and Customers
• Working as One NCC
• Being Inclusive and Respectful
• Always Learning
• Delivers Brilliantly

What we offer in return:

• 🌟 Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
• 🌴 Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
• 🧠 Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
• 💼 Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
• 🤝Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
• ⚡ Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
• 🚴 Cycle Scheme: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
• 🎉 Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
• 👨 👩 👧 👦 Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.

About NCC Group

The NCC Group family has over 2,200 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we have now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia- Pacific and United Arab Emirates.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.

Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate – we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We treat everyone and everything with equal respect.

We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally and physically safe to be authentic, sharing their personal experiences to represent the diversity of the world they live in, and have equal opportunity to achieve their best.

About your application

We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles.

If you do not want us to retain your details, please email global.ta@nccgroup.com. All personal data is held in accordance with the NCC Group Privacy Policy. We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.

Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process. This role being advertised will be subject to BS7858 screening as a mandatory requirement.