Enterprise Architect - Synthetics/ITEA/TLS
Job in
Manchester, Greater Manchester, M9, England, UK
Listed on 2026-09-26
Listing for:
Defence
Contract
position Listed on 2026-09-26
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Enterprise Architect (Digital Engineering - Synthetics / ITEA / TLS)
Location:
Reading, Berkshire Rate:
Up to £91.75/hour Clearance:
Active SC is mandatory The opportunity We're seeking an Enterprise Architect to support sensitive aerospace and defence programmes in Reading . This contract position focuses on Digital Engineering , with responsibility for integrating Virtual Environment solutions across the wider Digital Engineering landscape-covering people, process, and technology. You'll act as the focal point for Virtual Environment architecture, providing expert guidance across the delivery organisation and helping drive governance, reuse, and secure-by-design principles across the lifecycle.
What you'll be doing (key responsibilities) Develop and maintain high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) . Provide architectural leadership across people, process, and technology for Virtual Environment / Digital Engineering. Support delivery of Digital Twin / Digital Thread , virtual testing, qualification/certification, and training solutions. Apply modelling & simulation principles including real-time/time-domain simulation and 'fail first' integration philosophy. Translate architecture policies and risk requirements into actionable design standards, governance, and compliance frameworks .
Support architectural governance, security, regulatory and audit requirements. Write and manage RFI and RFQ , and contribute to tool/platform evaluations and proofs of concept. Work closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, engineering teams, IT, and suppliers-managing stakeholder expectations and delivery impacts. What we're looking for (requirements) Strong Enterprise / Business Architecture experience within MOD, Defence Digital, or UK aerospace/defence environments.
Active SC clearance (mandatory) ; DV preferred . Experience across enterprise, system, data, and technical architecture . Strong understanding of digital engineering concepts (digital twins, digital thread, virtual environments, simulation). Experience architecting IT software development environments and working across the systems engineering lifecycle. Degree in a relevant discipline (Computer Science / IT / Engineering / Maths/Stats or similar) plus architecture certifications such as TOGAF / Archi Mate / CISSP / cloud architecture .
Desirable / nice to have Microsoft Azure certification/experience SAFe / Agile delivery experience Exposure to CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops Knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes Reporting/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI ) Flight simulation / synthetic environments exposure
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