About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience as an Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect or Business Architect
- Excellent hands-on knowledge of ArchiMate
- Strong knowledge of TOGAF and enterprise architecture principles
- Experience with capability modelling and application portfolio modelling
- Hands-on experience designing or configuring metamodels within an enterprise architecture repository
- Strong experience leading or contributing to architecture governance, including design authorities or architecture review boards
- Experience maintaining architecture artefacts and enterprise repositories
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architecture concepts to non-technical audiences
- Ability to work independently, deliver at pace and contribute quickly with minimal onboarding
- Desirable: Previous Central or Local Government experience, particularly Local Government
- Desirable: Hands-on experience with Ardoq, Avolution ABACUS or similar enterprise architecture repository tools
- Desirable: Experience in information modelling or data architecture
- Desirable: TOGAF and/or ArchiMate certification
- Desirable: Experience supporting complex organisations with large application portfolios and established architecture governance processes
- BPSS clearance
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise architecture modelling, including developing taxonomies and metamodels covering organisations, services, business capabilities, applications, technologies, suppliers and their relationships
- Develop and maintain capability maps, application portfolio models and enterprise architecture repositories
- Define entity structures, naming conventions, identifiers, relationships and data ownership so information from different organisations and repositories can be mapped consistently
- Translate architecture use cases into repository configurations, model views, dashboards, workflows, governance controls and acceptance criteria
- Lead and support architecture governance, including design reviews, architecture review boards and governance forums
- Work with stakeholders across government to reconcile different architecture frameworks, terminology and modelling practices
- Assess enterprise architecture repository configurations for interoperability, maintainability, extensibility, versioning and long-term reuse
- Work with technical and data colleagues to validate architecture sources, mappings, provenance, completeness and changes
- Help stakeholders interpret architecture insights about application portfolios, dependencies, technology obsolescence, overlap and potential reuse
Technologies
- Abacus
- Architect
- ArchiMate
- Support
- TOGAF
More
We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join our Central Government client on a programme to strengthen and connect architecture information across government organisations. This hands-on role calls for someone able to work independently, at pace, and contribute across architecture modelling, governance, capability planning and repository management. The rate is £750 per day, inside IR35, on a contract through the end of the financial year, with a potential extension to be confirmed. The role is predominantly remote, with locations in London, Bristol or Manchester. The interview is a single-stage Microsoft Teams interview.
last updated 46 week of 2026