Chief Architect - Stratford, United Kingdom - INTEC SELECT LIMITED

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Chief Architect / Enterprise Architect - £900 p/day - Outside IR3- Remote Working

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A global corporation that is entering a digital transformation phase is hiring a Chief Architect / Enterprise Architect who has strong experience leading Architecture within a global multi-disciplined environment.

Our client is seeking a
Chief Architect / Enterprise Architect to take our client on a Global SAP (S4 conversation) moving into a hybrid cloud estate (365, AZURE, AWS).

Ideally the
Chief Architect / Enterprise Architect will have recent experience in the above specialisms.

This is contract opportunity paying up to £900 PD outside IR35 for 6 months with remote working to be based in either London or Manchester (90% to 95% remote).

The Chief Architect is a leading role within the Digital and Technology function, reporting to the CTO.

You will be leading the Architecture function, owning the Enterprise Architecture Practice and unifying underlying disciplines as well as leading the governanceof Architecture for the organisation, for both current and future states.

You will be the source of expertise for the organisation, influencing strategy, enabling organisational objectives, and guiding the organisation through its transformation and optimisationinitiatives.


Role overview/responsibilities:


  • Help the organisation achieve targeted business outcomes related to revenue growth, enhancing impact, optimising costs, and mitigating risks.
  • Work with Business and Leadership Stakeholders to develop strategy, translating and executing business strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes, identifying key outcomes, future state needs and improvement opportunities
  • Build relationships with business and IT stakeholders to communicate the value of Enterprise Architecture
  • Work with CTO and Digital Directors of Technology & Delivery (English, Exams, Culture Engagement, and Corporate Functions) to achieve strategic outcomes, maximising reuse, driving reduction in technology debt and helping the organisation scale Agile.
  • Own and maintain the roadmap for evolution of architecture, the Architecture Framework, documentation of architecture through logical, capability and technology blueprints
  • Guide the delivery of EA's services. Engage business and IT stakeholders, creating and building relationships and driving agile thinking in architecture.
  • Build an EA team oriented around internal management consulting, and drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model
  • Coach and mentor architecture practitioners, drive the community of practice for standards, methods, and capabilities

Technical skill set:


  • Experience of leading Architecture in large, complex multinational organisations (essential)
  • Global SAP (S4 conversation capabilities) (essential)
  • Strong experience of 365, Azure and AWS architectural capabilities in (Application, Solutions, Tech and Domain and Data)
  • Knowledge of business ecosystems and experience of their implementation, including:
  • Cloud technologies such as SaaS, IaaS, PaaS,
  • SOA, APIs, open data, micro services, eventdriven IT and predictive analytics,
  • RPA, AI, Machine Learning and Block chain
  • Other emerging technologies and their implementation.
  • Knowledge of Cyber Security best practices, ideally within a UK Government context (OWASP, NCSC, ISO27xxx standards) and awareness of GDPR and its impact on architecture and technology
  • Experience of leading architecture communities of practice, familiarity of graphical modelling approaches, tools, and management of model repositories.
  • Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, costbenefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

Rate - circa £900 p/day - Outside IR3- Remote
**Chief Architect / Enterprise Architect - £900 p/day - Outside IR3- Remote Working

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