About The Role

  • Role:  Enterprise Architect REF 96705
    Contract Length: 12 months
    Location: Porton Down, Salisbury / Portsdown West, Fareham – hybrid with occasional travel to site.
    IR35: Inside
    Pay Rate to Intermediary: £706 per day Umb. 
    Security Clearance: SC requested

    Spinwell is recruiting for a Enterprise Architect for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

    Responsibilities of the Enterprise Architect.
  •  Enterprise architects are leaders working across different levels within an organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. In this role, you will:
    • Identify priorities for change to enable delivery at pace
    • Lead and influence the delivery of cross-cutting capabilities that enable change
    • Own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps from a business, technology and data perspective, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states
    • Consult and support collaboration across the business
    • Understand the organisation’s ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures
    • Take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes
    • Guide the organisation to make appropriate business, technology and data decisions by recommending reuse, sustainability and scalability, to achieve value for money and reduce risk
    • Establish architectural principles, policies and standards
    • Collaborate and consult with stakeholders to assure business, technology and data decisions are aligned with enterprise architecture strategy
    • Develop the architecture community
    • Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation

    Skills and experiences include:

    • Architecture for the whole context. Assess how trends in society and industry practices might impact the organisation. Work with people outside of your organisation to inform policies, strategies and standards Anticipate changes to policy and build resilience through your architectural work. Coach others in identifying important trends
    • Architecture Communication. Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels, and across organisations, using architecture communication techniques. Mediate between people in difficult architectural discussions. Gain support from business and technical stakeholders for architectural initiatives with high levels of risk, impact and complexity. Coach and support others in architecture communication.
    • Commercial Perspective. Identify appropriate contractual frameworks and approaches. Identify, evaluate and select appropriate suppliers.
    • Community Collaboration. Solve and unblock issues between teams or departments at the highest level. Coach the organisation on team dynamics and conflict resolution, while also building and growing the community.
    • Making Architectural Decisions. Make and guide architectural design decisions characterised by high levels of risk and complexity. Identify and address architectural risks across the organisation or wider government. Lead and evolve architectural governance and assurance. Represent architectural governance as part of wider governance, for example, legal or commercial.
    • Enterprise Architecture. Lead others designing architectures defining the technology, people, process and other elements needed to achieve organisation objectives. Work with others beyond the organisation to influence organisational structures, technology, people and processes to achieve objectives. Ensure organisation-wide changes align with the architectural strategy.
    • Problem Definition and Shaping. Lead the framing of a problem characterised by high complexity, complication, or risk so that a solution can be created. Coach others in defining problems and describing appropriate options for solutions. Help others challenge requirements and assumptions, and identify opportunities when defining problems and solution options.

    Qualifications:
    TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), ISEB (Information Systems Examination Board) and one of the following:
     ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) Certification
     IT4IT Certification
    COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies) Certification

    If you are a Enterprise Architect apply now or send your CV to Spinwell. We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
    Applying to this or any other vacancy advertised by Spinwell Ltd constitutes an agreement for Spinwell Ltd to hold your details for 24 months for the purpose of assessing suitability for the advertised position and to make you aware of any other positions deemed suitable of which You will make you aware by means of either email, text or phone. In line with GDPR regulations you are able to request your details be removed from the company data at any time by emailing us

    Disability Confident
    As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
    Armed Forces Covenant
    The client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
    If you qualify for the above, please notify us and quote the role you are applying for.
    We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
    Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let us know.
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