Enterprise Architect - Synthetics / ITEA / TLS)
Defence · Reading, England ·
Enterprise Architect (Digital Engineering - Synthetics / ITEA / TLS) Location: Reading, Berkshire Rate: Up to £91.75/hour Clearance: Active SC is mandatory The opportunity We're seeking an Enterprise Architect to support sensitive aerospace and defence programmes in Reading .
This contract position focuses on Digital Engineering , with responsibility for integrating Virtual Environment solutions across the wider Digital Engineering landscape-covering people, process, and technology. You'll act as the focal point for Virtual Environment architecture, providing expert guidance across the delivery organisation and helping drive governance, reuse, and secure-by-design principles across the lifecycle.
What you'll be doing (key responsibilities) Develop and maintain high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) . Provide architectural leadership across people, process, and technology for Virtual Environment / Digital Engineering.
Support delivery of Digital Twin / Digital Thread , virtual testing, qualification/certification, and training solutions. Apply modelling & simulation principles including real-time/time-domain simulation and 'fail first' integration philosophy.
Translate architecture policies and risk requirements into actionable design standards, governance, and compliance frameworks . Support architectural governance, security, regulatory and audit requirements. Write and manage RFI and RFQ , and contribute to tool/platform evaluations and proofs of concept.
Work closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, engineering teams, IT, and suppliers-managing stakeholder expectations and delivery impacts. What we're looking for (requirements) Strong Enterprise / Business Architecture experience within MOD, Defence Digital, or UK aerospace/defence environments.
Active SC clearance (mandatory) ; DV preferred . Experience across enterprise, system, data, and technical architecture . ...