Enterprise Architect- Integration Architecture

Hays Technology • TRAFFIC • Manchester, City, United Kingdom • £800,000 - £850,800 / * • 1w ago

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect - Integration Architecture to lead the development of strategic technology direction, reusable patterns, and architectural standards across our integration domain.

As part of the Strategic Architecture team, you'll play a pivotal role in defining and delivering long-term business and digital capabilities. You'll work across both technology and operational domains, influencing investment decisions, mentoring architects, and engaging senior stakeholders across government and internationally.This is a high-impact role where your leadership will directly shape how our client delivers integrated, sustainable, and future-ready services.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the development of integration architecture strategy, vision, and roadmaps.
Inspire and guide architects across mixed grades and backgrounds.
Collaborate with senior stakeholders to shape business and technology strategy.
Identify and exploit emerging technologies through innovation pilots and proofs of concept.
Define and maintain architectural standards and reusable patterns.
Assure solution designs for consistency, sustainability, and strategic alignment.
Contribute to investment cases and whole-life costing for business and IT change.
Provide architectural input into commercial tenders and supplier evaluations.
Mentor and upskill architects

Key Skills Required:

Proven experience in enterprise or domain-level architecture within integration.
A track record of leading architecture teams and mentoring others.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
Experience in setting architectural guardrails and driving adoption.
Civil Service experience required
Ability to communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

In return, you will receive the opportunity to support a major government department. The possibility to work on a 6-month paying up to 850 p/day (in scope of IR35).

This role will require you to be on site up to 3 days a week in any of our hubs: York, Newcastle, Warrington, Bristol, Birmingham, London, Peterborough, Reading and Weybridge.

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