Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect 6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - market rate London based - hybrid working - 1-2 days a week onsite Insurance sector - Insurance/Reinsurance/London Markets experience required Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support a strategic transformation agenda within a specialty insurance organisation operating in the London Market.

The role will work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders, including the Head of Business Transformation, to shape enterprise architecture direction, connect business strategy to technology strategy, and ensure that change initiatives align to a coherent target-state architecture.

The Enterprise Architect will provide a cross-domain view spanning data, integration, applications, cloud and business architecture. A key part of the role will be to bridge individual architecture disciplines - particularly data architecture - into a broader enterprise roadmap, define strategic principles and target states, and help guide investment and transformation priorities across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain enterprise architecture views covering business, data, application, integration and technology domains. Work with senior stakeholders to translate business transformation objectives into clear architecture strategy, target-state designs and actionable technology roadmaps.

Partner closely with the Head of Business Transformation and senior technology leaders to provide architecture input into strategic planning, prioritisation and investment decisions. Bridge data architecture into the wider enterprise architecture, ensuring data models, information flows, integration patterns and platform choices align with enterprise strategy.

Define current-state, transition-state and target-state architectures, identifying gaps, dependencies, sequencing considerations and strategic enablers. Create and evolve multi-year roadmaps that show how capabilities, platforms and applications should change over time.

Provide architectural oversight across major transformation programmes and ensure local solution choices remain aligned to agreed enterprise principles. Facilitate architecture workshops and decision-making forums with business, programme, data, engineering, security and infrastructure stakeholders.

Identify opportunities to simplify the technology estate, reduce duplication, strengthen integration, improve data reuse and increase cloud adoption where appropriate. Strategic Architecture Focus Enterprise strategy alignment - connect business priorities, transformation goals and technology direction.

Roadmaps and target state - define pragmatic transition paths from the current estate to a more strategic future architecture. Data strategy and architecture - ensure data domains, modelling, governance, analytics and data platforms fit within the enterprise vision. Application and platform ...

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