Enteprise Architect - bid

We need someone who can help us write a Bid (at no cost) and then be a part of the paid project if successful.

Enterprise Architect – Digital Transformation

Contract: 16 weeks

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join a short-term digital transformation engagement with a UK organisation.

Working as part of a small, collaborative transformation team, you will assess the organisation’s current digital and technology landscape, identify transformation opportunities and help refine its Digital & IT Strategy.

This is not simply a high-level advisory role. We need an Enterprise Architect who is comfortable getting into the detail, carrying out architectural discovery and then translating findings into clear, pragmatic recommendations for senior stakeholders.

• Review the current technology landscape, including systems, integrations, hosting and data flows.
• Assess architectural maturity, constraints, risks and opportunities.
• Participate in interviews and technical workshops with IT, digital and business stakeholders.
• Contribute architectural input to the current-state digital maturity assessment.
• Review previous digital delivery, including design decisions, delivery approaches and technical implementation.
• Identify architectural constraints, underlying issues and governance gaps.
• Assess alignment with relevant government digital standards, open standards and accessibility requirements.
• Review and refine the organisation’s Digital & IT Strategy from an architectural perspective.
• Identify gaps relating to technology choices, architecture, governance, security and delivery readiness.
• Help develop a sequenced and costed digital transformation roadmap.
• Ensure recommendations are technically feasible, scalable and aligned with good practice.
• Identify architectural dependencies, enablers and risks.
• Support assessment of the organisation’s cyber posture alongside a Cyber Specialist.
• Present architectural findings and recommendations clearly to senior and executive stakeholders.

You must have significant hands-on Enterprise Architecture experience
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We are particularly interested in people with:

• A strong Enterprise Architecture background.
• Experience of digital transformation programmes.
• Public-sector experience would be highly advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of cloud strategy and architecture.
• Legacy system modernisation experience.
• Integration architecture and integration patterns.
• Architectural and technical governance.
• Experience assessing complex existing technology environments.
• Familiarity with government digital standards and public-sector digital delivery would be beneficial.
• An understanding of Cyber Essentials Plus, accessibility and open standards.
• The ability to combine hands-on architectural analysis with strategic thinking.
• Strong stakeholder and executive-level communication skills.

The successful Enterprise Architect will contribute to:

• Current-state architecture and discovery analysis.
• Architecture maturity assessment.
• Review and assurance of previous digital delivery.
• Architecture gap analysis.
• Digital and IT strategy refinement.
• Future-state architecture.
• Digital transformation roadmap.
• Executive-level recommendations and presentation materials.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Enterprise Architect to make a significant contribution to a focused transformation programme, combining detailed architectural assessment with strategic direction.