Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect - DATA is required by our global client for long term project

The successful candidate will lead the end-to-end architecture of complex digital solutions, translating business outcomes and non-functional requirements into secure, resilient, scalable and operable designs.

The role bridges strategy and delivery across applications, data, integration, cloud platforms and engineering, while governing key trade-offs and ensuring alignment with enterprise principles, target architectures and multi-cloud standards.

• Own solution architecture from discovery through deployment and transition to operations, producing context, logical, physical, integration, data, security and deployment views.
• Translate business, functional and non-functional requirements into target solutions, architecture decisions, transition states and delivery roadmaps.
• Design cloud-native applications using 12-factor principles, APIs, microservices, containers, serverless patterns, distributed systems, resiliency, observability and automated operations.
• Define portable deployment standards for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, configuration, secrets, release, scalability, availability and disaster-recovery requirements.
• Select fit-for-purpose integration patterns, including synchronous APIs, event-driven messaging, streaming, orchestration, batch interfaces and ETL/ELT; define contracts, ownership, latency, retry, idempotency and failure handling.
• Design end-to-end data flows and integration architectures covering operational stores, dimensional models, lakes, warehouses and data products; govern modelling, transformation, lineage, metadata, quality, security and retention.
• Lead solution option assessments and govern build, partner, buy, reuse and shape decisions based on differentiation, capability, time-to-value, total cost, portability, lock-in, risk and operating impact.
• Evaluate platforms, products, vendors and partner designs; validate technical claims through evidence, proof of concept and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Lead design reviews and approve solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, service-management and cloud guardrails; document exceptions and remediation.
• Provide technical direction to software, data, platform, DevOps, security and operations teams; ensure architecture is implementable and remains aligned through delivery.
• Identify and reduce technical debt, duplication and unnecessary customization by promoting reusable services, standard patterns and governed technology choices.
• Advise senior stakeholders on architecture choices, risks, dependencies, cost and delivery trade-offs, and maintain architecture decision records and assurance evidence.

ESSENTIAL experience must include

• 15+ years of IT experience, including at least 10 years in solution, application, data or enterprise architecture roles delivering complex transformation programmes.
• Strong hands-on architecture background across software engineering, data engineering, integration, cloud platforms, infrastructure, security and operations.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native and distributed architecture, 12-factor applications, microservices, APIs, containers, serverless, event-driven design, streaming and batch processing.
• Strong command of integration and data patterns, including API management, messaging, ETL/ELT, operational and dimensional modelling, transformation, lineage, metadata, master/reference data and data-quality controls.
• Experience defining deployment and engineering standards for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability and secure-by-design practices.
• Proven ability to assess build, partner, buy, reuse and shape options and to challenge vendor proposals, proprietary claims, lock-in, commercial assumptions and operating-model impacts.
• Practical experience with architecture principles, reference architectures, target-state roadmaps, design authorities, architecture decision records and governance frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Ability to balance strategic alignment with delivery pragmatism and make explicit trade-offs across cost, speed, quality, security, resilience, portability and maintainability.
• Strong facilitation, technical leadership and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering teams, vendors and senior decision-makers.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification is advantageous.
• TOGAF and relevant cloud architecture certification; data, integration, security or Kubernetes certification is advantageous.