Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect (Business and Digital)

• Must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance Inside IR35 £70 per hour Remote / Occasional travel to Gloucestershire

Leading engineering company is actively recruiting for an experienced Business Architect  to assist developing and implementing Digital Solution’s Enterprise Architecture capability offering (Strategy, Business, Applications & Data).

The successful Enterprise Architect (Business and Digital) will be accountable for the delivery of enterprise architecture to underpin digital transformation.

Responsibilities for the position of Enterprise Architecture (Strategy, Business, Applications & Data) Delivery

• Support in the delivery of business transformation programmes Participate in the delivery of enterprise architecture projects Contribution to the selection/definition of context-appropriate architectural meta-models including industry standard (e.g. Archimate), extended/adapted and bespoke. Development of as-is and to-be architectures to support assessment of solution options and transformation programme / portfolio management. Liaison with internal and customer leadership in a consultative capacity to assist in development and communication of transformation strategy Analysis of current (as-is) business (process & organisation), information and applications to create associated architectural models and viewpoints - Involving bottom-up analysis of physical artefacts (e.g. database schema) and review of documentation (e.g. Quality Management systems, specifications, etc.) supported by interviews and workshops with subject matter experts. Develop and maintain architecture management plans for each project/programme Assist business development in production of bid material for delivery of enterprise architecture services and applying MDA principles to other bid responses Application of systems thinking and architectural principles to support project teams with development of user and system requirements and solution specifications including high level designs, functional specifications, etc.

Essential experience for the position of Enterprise Architect (Business and Digital)

• Significant practical experience of the application of model driven architecture (framework agnostic) with particular focus on business, application and data layers of enterprise architecture

• Experience of software solution delivery lifecycles Knowledge and experience of software application architectures to support bottom-up abstraction of logical architecture from current physical solution artefacts Experience of designing or adapting frameworks to meet specific problem domains and project needs Experience of derivation of user and system requirements from model driven architecture Domain experience in engineering and asset management preferably the context of any of naval marine, defence equipment & support or nuclear (defence and civil) Experience of modelling using MOOD, Sparx EA and Archi or similar/equivalent tools