Enterprise Architect- London

This role will act as the bridge between enterprise strategy and project delivery, ensuring that solutions are aligned to architectural principles, business objectives, security standards, and technology roadmaps. The successful candidate will work closely with project teams, business stakeholders, delivery leads, and technical SMEs to shape, review, and govern solution designs across a range of programmes and projects.

The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable operating at a strategic level while providing hands-on guidance to delivery teams throughout the solution lifecycle.

• Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, principles, and target-state architectures.
• Support project teams in the creation and review of solution designs and technical architectures.
• Ensure solutions align with business strategy, enterprise standards, security requirements, and technology roadmaps.
• Lead architecture reviews, design workshops, and governance forums.
• Provide thought leadership on architecture best practices, emerging technologies, and modern design approaches.
• Work with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable and supportable solutions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify technology landscapes, reduce technical debt, and improve operational efficiency.
• Develop architecture artefacts including:
  • Solution architecture documents
  • High and low-level designs
  • Integration architecture diagrams
  • Data flows and process models
  • Non-functional requirements
• Support investment and programme planning by providing architectural assessments and recommendations.
• Mentor solution architects, technical leads, and project teams on architecture methodologies and design principles. 

• Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Technical Architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing and governing large-scale enterprise solutions.
• Strong background in solution design across multiple technology domains.
• Experience working within complex transformation programmes.
• Ability to balance business priorities with architectural integrity.
• Experience facilitating workshops and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance and assurance processes.

Technical Knowledge:

Experience in several of the following areas:

• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Enterprise integration and API architectures
• Microservices and event-driven architectures
• Data architecture and information management
• Security and identity management principles
• Application modernisation
• Infrastructure and platform architectures
• DevOps and CI/CD practices
• SaaS and enterprise platforms

Architecture Frameworks:

Desirable experience with:

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Zachman
• AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Enterprise architecture modelling tools

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience engaging with senior leadership, programme directors, delivery teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Able to challenge constructively while driving consensus and delivery outcomes.

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.

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