Enterprise Architect Manager, Defence and National Security (DV)

Overview

In this role you will shape enterprise architecture for high-impact UK government transformation programmes within secure environments. You’ll translate strategy into architecture visions and roadmaps, lead end-to-end blueprints, and govern data and technology landscapes to enable meaningful change. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders to drive investment decisions and align initiatives with security and standards. This is a leadership, client-facing position focused on defence and national security outcomes and modern technology platforms.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days’ annual leave
• Private medical insurance
• Charitable/volunteering days
• Access to Accenture’s global learning
• Career progression opportunities

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy into architecture visions, target states and roadmaps
• Assess impact of strategic change across business, data, technology, and operations
• Lead development of enterprise architecture blueprints showing end-to-end landscapes
• Provide architecture leadership across complex digital reinvention programmes
• Develop value cases and investment justifications for executive decisions
• Apply Lean and Agile EA principles to complex environments
• Conduct vendor and platform assessments across technology, data and integration layers
• Act as trusted advisor between business, technology teams and suppliers
• Establish and apply EA governance aligning initiatives to standards
• Lead design and governance of enterprise data platform capabilities
• Define and support implementation of EA operating models
• Deliver EA maturity assessments and improvement roadmaps
• Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies
• Secure environment client-facing delivery with on-site and hybrid model

Key requirements

• Experience in secure UK environments (Defence/Public Safety/National Security)
• Expertise in one or more architecture domains (Business, Application, Data, Technology)
• Track record in large-scale digital transformation or reinvention
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence senior audiences
• Ability to communicate across architectural abstraction levels
• Inquisitive mindset with interest in AI, data, cloud, automation, robotics
• Full professional proficiency in English

• Stakeholder influence
• Communication across levels
• Strategic thinking
• Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, COBIT, DCAM)
• EA tools: LeanIX, Avolution, Orbus, Bizzdesign
• Data architecture and data platform governance

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