Job Description:

Our local authority client based in Essex are urgently seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect.

Fixed Term, Full Time

Up to £80,746 per annum

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior leaders across ECC and wider Essex partners, providing expert guidance on the future technology landscape required to support Local Government Reorganisation.
• Develop an integrated, system‑wide view of technology, digital capabilities, infrastructure, platforms, and data flows to inform shared planning, investment, and decision‑making across LGR workstreams.
• Translate ECC’s existing Enterprise Architecture principles, standards, patterns and reference models into clear guidance for LGR workstreams, ensuring all proposals and designs align with established direction.
• Review and assure LGR technical and digital proposals to ensure they are interoperable, scalable, secure, and consistent with ECC’s architecture and strategic priorities.
• Develop and maintain a shared understanding of the technology, data, integration and digital capability impacts of LGR across councils and services.
• Analyse complex cross‑organisation technology challenges, assess digital maturity, and recommend future‑state architectures that strengthen interoperability, reduce duplication, and increase resilience.
• Shape the technical elements of high‑level business cases, ensuring proposals reflect LGR priorities, shared capabilities, integration requirements, and long‑term sustainability.
• Oversee the development of roadmaps that guide partners toward a consistent, modernised, and secure technology environment that enables efficient and user‑centred public services.
• Work closely with ECC’s BAU Enterprise Architect to ensure LGR decisions support ECC’s technical roadmap and avoid duplication, legacy growth or unnecessary divergence.
• Assure the design of major digital and technology initiatives to ensure architectural conformance, simplicity, cost‑effectiveness, and alignment to LGR objectives.
• Collaborate with commercial and procurement teams to ensure suppliers, products, and platforms are aligned to shared Enterprise Architecture principles.

The Experience You Will Bring:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject, with extensive experience in business architecture within digital services or public sector environments.
• Extensive experience as an enterprise or senior solution architect, ideally within a large public sector environment or multi‑organisation transformation programme.
• Accredited in TOGAF 9.2 (or similar), with working knowledge of frameworks such as ArchiMate, BPMN, COBIT, and IT4IT.
• Strong understanding of enterprise‑level architecture practices, technical standards, integration patterns and how they support organisational strategy.
• Proven ability to analyse complex, multi‑organisation technology landscapes and develop clear, pragmatic, scalable recommendations.
• Experience assuring or guiding major technology initiatives, programmes or business cases.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge constructively and explain technical concepts in accessible ways.
• Experience leading enterprise business solutions, including process reengineering and organisational design programmes.
• Knowledge of change management tools and techniques, with experience supporting transformation initiatives.

Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.

At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful.