Senior Enterprise Architect - Somerset

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Taunton, Somerset.

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect who will work across different levels within the organisation to translate the business strategy into business change and technical delivery. You will take a strategic view across all architectural domains, portfolios and programmes. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with exposure to problem definition and shaping.

Responsibilities

• Lead and influence the delivery of cross-cutting capabilities, enabling change
• Identify opportunities for improvement while supporting a community or team, delivering team’s objectives to meet organisational goals
• Identify influences or risks while being a key member to the successful delivery of the long-term strategy 
• Maintain the enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps across domains, portfolios and programmes from a business, technology and data perspective, including ‘as is’, ‘to be’ and transitional states 
• Consult and support collaboration across the business while understanding the organisation’s ecosystem and its interdependencies, including reference architectures 
• 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 while utilising best practice
• Establish architectural principles, policies as well as standards while developing the architecture community
• Collaborate and consult with stakeholders across domains or enterprises, ensuring business, technology and data decisions align with enterprise architecture strategy  
• Carry out horizon scanning across industry, identifying emerging trends and their potential impact and opportunity for the organisation 

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture 
• Hold active SC Clearance or be eligible to go through SC Clearance
• Problem solving skills with exposure to cross functional collaboration
• Skilled in communicating with senior stakeholders, technical and non-technical audiences
• Stakeholder management skills
• Solid understanding of commercial processes with internal connections within a government department 
• Good understanding of different sourcing strategies and when to apply them
• Able to proactively support the team
• Understanding of Agile methodology & practices
• Experience in designing architecture that defines technology, people, process and other elements needed to achieve organisation objectives 
• Experienced in using architectural governance and assurance to make design decisions and manage technical risks
• Able to make and guide architectural design decisions characterised by medium risk and complexity 
• Experience in strategy design

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension

About FDM 

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index. 

Diversity and Inclusion  

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.