Title: Enterprise Architect
Contract: Permanent
Location: London preferred, would consider Manchester, Bristal, Cambridge, Edinburgh or Belfast
Are you passionate about leveraging innovative technology to solve some of the world’s most complex business challenges?
This is your opportunity to work directly with clients, designing and delivering complex business and technical solutions. As an Enterprise Architect, you'll be involved in every phase of the delivery lifecycle, adopting a hands-on, delivery-focused approach across multiple domains and leading technologies.
Experience and Skills

• Develop and execute an enterprise architecture strategy that aligns IT and business objectives.
• Define and document technology standards, principles, and best practices to ensure consistency.
• Lead the creation of scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions.
• Collaborate with business leaders and IT teams to understand requirements and bridge the gap between technical teams and business units.
• Provide guidance to project teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Develop and manage a technology roadmap aligned with business priorities and monitor emerging trends.
• Design solution architectures that integrate with the overall enterprise framework.
• Implement governance processes and ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
• Identify and mitigate technology risks, collaborating with cybersecurity teams to ensure security standards.
• Design and enforce data architecture and governance to enhance analytics, accessibility, and compliance.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of enterprise architecture and communicate updates and risks to senior leadership.
• Provide training and support to IT teams to ensure adherence to architecture standards.

Experience

• 8+ years of IT experience, including at least 3-5 years in senior architecture roles.
• Proven ability to design and implement enterprise architectures within complex organizations.
• Hands-on expertise across multiple architectural domains, including business, application, data, and technology.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Proficiency in architectural modeling tools like ArchiMate, Sparx, or similar platforms.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and integration technologies, including APIs, SOA, and microservices.
• In-depth understanding of cybersecurity practices and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR).

Qualifications and Soft Skills
Soft Skills

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the capacity to convey complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and manage competing priorities.
• A strategic mindset combined with a proactive approach to identifying challenges and delivering innovative solutions.

If you're ready to use your skills to drive impactful digital solutions, here's how you can connect:

• Click the apply button (don’t worry, we’ll talk before your CV or application goes anywhere).
• Call SoCode and ask for Emma (number is on Google).
• Find me on LinkedIn—there aren’t many people named Emma Panday, so I’m easy to find!