Enterprise Architect (Contractor)

Job Description

Version 1 is seeking a highly accomplished and professional Enterprise Architect with strong client facing experience to join our multi-award-winning consultancy organisation. You will join a diverse team providing IT Strategy, AI advisory, development and support services, working with a range of Version 1's public and private sector customers. This role will require two days on site in the Lincoln area.

You will have worked in an Enterprise Architecture role, engaging with technical and business stakeholders. Using your breadth of experience, you will lead in defining and delivering transformative programs for customers including:

• Lead the definition and creation of innovative digital services for customers
• Provide technical guidance to our customers and to internal teams as we work together building digital and AI centred services to meet the challenges of the next decade
• Deliver transformation of IT practices to exploit modern best practices such as DevOps, DevSecOps, automation agents and generative AI
• Define strategies to migrate, modernise and transform legacy systems onto modern architectures
• To provide technical, sectoral and design leadership to a highly skilled and motivated expert technical team
• To work with customer senior management and technology leaders assisting as they make critical decisions on technical direction
• Lead business analysts and end-users to elicit requirements & assist in developing design specifications for short-, medium- and long-term future state architectures
• Developing effective logical, conceptual, and physical designs in conjunction with the wider IT development and support team
• Perform enterprise technology assessments to help identify risks, issues and opportunities
• Assessing customer application estates and defining future roadmaps including cloud migration, modernisation, AI adoption and transformation
• Designing digital solutions with awareness of relevant standards and industry best practices
• To be part of a motivated and dynamic advisory team with strong core values that seek to drive the customer's success
• Identify opportunities to add value to the customer in the management and delivery of its IT landscape
• Evaluating and recommending external products and services that may meet the customer's requirements
• Identifying technology trends through an awareness of industry innovation, sectoral and geo-political factors
• Supporting business development teams in shaping opportunities and defining solutions for new customers, including responding to tenders and delivering client presentations
• Maintaining client relationships, including acting as a trusted advisor to CIO and senior technology leaders across our client base

Qualifications

Qualifications

One or more certifications in relevant architecture domains are desirable, or proven real-world architecture experience in these areas:

• Enterprise architecture – (TOGAF preferred)
• Cloud architecture – (Azure and/or AWS)
• AI Architecture – (Copilot, OpenAI, Azure AI, RAG Architecture)
• One or more certifications that demonstrate experience in project management, operations and IT delivery are desirable, such as:
• Service Management (e.g. ITIL)
• Project Management (e.g. PRINCE2)
• Agile (e.g. PSM or CSM Scrum Master)
• One or more certifications that demonstrate application or technical specialisms are desirable, such as:
• IT Security (e.g. CISSP, CEH, CCSP)
• ERP Systems (e.g. Oracle, SAP, Sales Force or MS Dynamics certifications)
• Product or application specialisms (e.g. O365, SharePoint, CRM, Operational Technology)

Technical Delivery Experience:

• Extensive Solution Design, development, and delivery experience in diverse and complex environments
• Development of IT and/or digital strategies including production of technology roadmaps and AI strategies
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture modelling (including techniques such as UML) and experience in Enterprise Architecture tools such as LeanIX, OrbusInfinity or Ardoq
• Excellent client-facing skills, including experience working with C-Suite level managers on high-profile IT design or delivery projects
• Sectoral Experience:

• You will have significant (5+ years) experience in at least one of the following sectors, with a deep understanding of both the technology landscape and market drivers in that sector:
• Health & Life Sciences (e.g. public and/or private health, pharmaceuticals)
• Banking & Capital Markets (e.g. fintech, investment banking, reinsurance)
• Local or Central Government (e.g. transport, education, welfare)
• Manufacturing & Retail (e.g. supply chain, operational technology, e-commerce)