Enterprise Architect - 2 Year Fixed Term Contract

Location: Peterborough (1-2 days per week onsite)
Salary: £75,000 per annum
Full-time | 2 Year FTC

We're working with a public sector body who are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to lead the design and delivery of a future-ready technology landscape over a two-year transformation programme, as they transition to bringing their IT function in-house. This is a pivotal role, offering the opportunity to define and embed enterprise-wide architecture that supports long-term strategic goals.

The Role
As Enterprise Architect, you will:

• Develop and maintain the organisation's enterprise architecture blueprint, aligning IT strategy with business priorities
• Lead on architectural governance across application, data, integration and infrastructure domains
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure architectural alignment with operational needs
• Provide oversight and direction on solution design, ensuring scalability, security and sustainability
• Support transformation projects with expert input across platforms, systems and services
• Identify opportunities for innovation through the evaluation of emerging technologies

About You

• Proven experience in an Enterprise Architect role, ideally within a government body, if not then within a public sector, non-profit, or membership-led organisation
• Strong understanding across all architecture domains: business, applications, data, and infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience supporting large service transition programmes (ideally moving from an outsourced service to in-house)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• TOGAF certified (essential)
• Comfortable working in a hybrid environment and balancing strategic and hands-on responsibilities