Enterprise Architect

Proud to be supporting a fantastic organisation in the East Midlands in their search for a Lead Architect / Solutions/Enterprise level to join them during the most impactful transformation programme ever undertaken. This is a permanent role, 2 days a week on site in Nottingham paying up to £81,500 base + £7,000 car allowance + 15% bonus + 12% pension contribution + 38 days annual leave.

What does a Lead Architect do?

 Work closely with leadership to build and maintain a relationship with the Executive and Senior Leadership team within and maintain a wide view of the technology landscape, investigate solutions, apply business acumen and develop quality deliverables to support decisions.
 Perform a crucial role in Architectural Governance, working alongside the Enterprise Architect and IT Modernisation Office team to ensure that the right decisions are made and upheld.
 Own and maintain a view of the Technical roadmaps for their Domain.
 Owns architectural relationships and interface with software vendors and IT Service Providers.
 Drives business engagement to understand, challenge and document strategic business needs, translating these into scope, objectives and outcomes.
 Liaise with the Strategy team to inform and be informed of the current Business Strategy, Drivers and Vision.
 Work with Business Transformation leads to own and constantly maintain roadmap to ensure alignment to the Business Strategy.
 Work with the ePMO team, business and architecture functions to create Value Cases including architectural visions and other supporting architectural artefacts for submission to Investment Committee.
 Work with business units to help turn their ideas and solutions into documented roadmaps and identify the benefit and value of their requested changes.


What skills, qualifications and qualities do I need to be successful?

 Proven track record of driving and leading large-scale transformation from inception to completion within your respective specialism; Oracle ERP, Supply Chain, or Digital and eCommerce
 Experience in planning and coordinating complex transitions and migrations.
 Knowledge of IT Quality Assurance processes.
 Demonstrable hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of an architecture practice.
 Architectural leadership within a Cloud and SaaS context.
 Experience within Solution Design & Architecture.
 Robust knowledge within Security Architecture.
 Experience of all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
 In depth ITIL Knowledge.
 Experience in reviewing and selecting Technical and Applications Architectures solutions.
 Experience of supporting procurement of IT Architecture and services.
 Experience of working with 3rd party Technical and Application Architects