Enterprise Architect

Project overview

Enterprise Architect (Contract)

Midlands | Hybrid Working | 6-Month Initial Contract | Outside IR35 | Competitive Day Rate

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join a market-leading engineering and manufacturing organisation undertaking a significant technology transformation programme.

Working closely with executive stakeholders, IT leadership and business teams, you'll play a key role in shaping the enterprise technology strategy, driving architecture governance and supporting the delivery of complex transformation initiatives across the organisation.

This is a highly visible contract engagement, offering the opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions and help define the future-state architecture of a large and complex enterprise environment.

About the Opportunity

The organisation is investing heavily in modernising its technology landscape, with several large-scale programmes spanning ERP, digital transformation, cloud adoption, operational technology and enterprise integration. As Enterprise Architect, you will provide strategic leadership across architecture domains, ensuring technology investments align with long-term business objectives whilst supporting immediate transformation goals.

Why Join?

Key Responsibilities

• Play a leading role in business-critical transformation programmes
• Work directly with executive stakeholders and senior leadership teams
• Influence enterprise-wide technology strategy and decision-making
• Operate within a complex, multi-domain architecture environment
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement
• Outside IR35 contract with strong potential for extension
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy, principles and standards
• Develop current-state and target-state architecture roadmaps
• Establish and oversee architecture governance frameworks and decision-making processes
• Align technology strategy with business objectives and future operating models
• Support major transformation initiatives across ERP, digital and operational technology programmes
• Lead architecture reviews and provide technical leadership across delivery teams
• Drive application rationalisation, integration strategy and platform modernisation
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investment opportunities

Requirements

Desirable Experience

Key Details

Interested in learning more?

Get in touch for a confidential discussion regarding the role, organisation and wider transformation roadmap.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our client is an equal opportunities employer.

At Xpertise, we keep things human.

Your application will always be reviewed by a real person. We do not rely on AI or automated screening tools. Every candidate receives fair, considered attention from our team.

Right to work in the UK is required for this role.

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect within a complex organisation
• Strong track record of developing enterprise technology strategies and architecture roadmaps
• Experience implementing architecture governance frameworks, standards and best practices
• Broad knowledge across applications, cloud, infrastructure, data and integration architecture
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience engaging executive-level leaders
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation and change programmes
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification preferred
• ERP transformation programmes
• Engineering, manufacturing or industrial environments
• Supply chain and operational technology landscapes
• Mergers, acquisitions and business integration activities
• Location: Midlands
• Working Pattern: Hybrid
• Contract: 6-Month Initial Contract
• Status: Outside IR35
• Rate: Competitive Day Rate

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: East Midlands, Leicestershire, GB
• Rate: 94-100 EUR/h