Enterprise Architect; Contractor

Position

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.

• 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 Dev Ops, Dev Sec Ops , 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

• 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, such as:
  • Service Management (ITIL)
  • Project Management (PRINCE2)
  • Agile (PSM or CSM Scrum Master)
• One or more certifications that demonstrate application or technical specialisms, such as:
  • IT Security (CISSP, CEH, CCSP)
  • ERP Systems (Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, MS Dynamics)
  • Product or application specialisms (O365, SharePoint, CRM, Operational Technology)

• 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, Orbus Infinity or Ardoq
• Excellent client‑facing skills including experience working with C‑Suite level managers on high‑profile IT design or delivery projects

• 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 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)

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