Lead Enterprise Architect
Key Points
- Location: London W12 7TQ
- Contract Duration: 6 months
- IR35 Status: In Scope (via UMB)
- Pay Rate: £625 per day
Overview
An opportunity for a senior Lead Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role within a high-profile transformation across critical revenue, billing, and customer platforms.
Working within a multi-disciplinary leadership environment, you will define and drive enterprise architecture strategy, enabling the modernisation of legacy systems into scalable, cloud-first, data-driven platforms. This role requires deep architectural expertise, strong stakeholder engagement, and the ability to translate business priorities into robust, future-proof technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Define and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy
- Develop current, interim, and target state architecture blueprints across core domains
- Transformation & Modernisation
- Lead transformation of legacy billing, revenue management, and campaign platforms
- Drive adoption of cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices architectures
- Enable improved customer experience through modern digital platforms
- ArchitectureRoadmap & Governance
- Establish and maintain clear architecture roadmaps from current to target state
- Champion governance frameworks ensuring compliance, scalability, and sustainability
- Define and enforce standards across data, AI/ML, identity, and integration
- Technical Strategy & Design
- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions
- Lead architectural decision-making including vendor selection and build vs buy strategies
- Produce high-quality architecture artefacts and conduct design assurance reviews
- Platform & Data Architecture
- Design platforms supporting high-volume, real-time and batch processing environments
- Enable advanced data capabilities including analytics, modelling, and virtualisation
- Support machine learning and AI adoption with appropriate governance and controls
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data, and Delivery teams to realise strategy
- Influence senior stakeholders and align technology solutions to business objectives
- Lead proof-of-concepts to evaluate emerging technologies and innovation opportunities
- Operational Excellence
- Ensure architectures deliver high availability, resilience, and security at scale
- Support systems handling millions of transactions and customer interactions daily
- Drive transition to domain-oriented, platform-based architecture models
- Capability & Continuous Improvement
- Mentor and guide architects and technical teams to uplift capability
- Embed best practices in architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and delivery approaches
- Promote standardisation while balancing flexibility across distributed teams
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