Enterprise Architect

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Employer: Actica Consulting
Sector/Specialism: IT

Role Profile

As an Enterprise Architect at Actica, you will have the opportunity to provide support to a wide range of high-profile UK public sector and defence organisations. Your help will enable them to get the maximum benefit from their technology investments, and in doing so play a key role in nationally critical projects which make a real difference to people’s everyday lives.

With expertise in analysing and developing architectures across the Business, Data, Applications and Infrastructure domains, you will also have an understanding of the technologies and operational processes required to achieve this. You will provide high-value strategy, business analysis, technology and procurement consultancy to ensure any solution aligns with the business aspirations. You could find yourself doing this at the enterprise level in support of major transformation programmes or at the level of targeted projects and interventions.

Your level of experience will determine the amount of responsibility given to you, as a result the role may require you to lead assignments and be responsible for supervising direct reports whilst ensuring the overall success of the engagement. Our position as a client side advisor means that your role will involve significant stakeholder engagement, dealing directly with the client, including in resolving day-day issues involved in assignment delivery and developing follow-on opportunities, so excellent interpersonal and influencing skills are essential.

Career Development

You will be given the opportunity to further your career in consulting, specialising in the application of a broad range of methodologies and technical specialisations to a wide range of business problems.

A career mentor will be on hand to provide support and guidance throughout your journey with Actica. You will also work with a performance and development manager who will conduct six monthly reviews to set career objectives and identify training courses which are both relevant to your current project work, and aligned with your planned career progression.

We provide substantial training, including online, classroom and in-house courses, leading to nationally recognised qualifications in areas such as Business Architecture, Solution and Enterprise Architecture, Agile methodologies, Business Analysis, IT Service Management, Cyber Security, and Technology Procurement.

Responsibilities

Working either individually or as part of a larger Actica team, you will undertake a number of consultancy assignments that could include:
• Generate genuinely useful outcomes to help deliver the client’s goals in major business transformation programmes;
• Hands-on analysis, not just assurance, including working with clients, users and other team members to address issues before they become blockers;
• Develop and review strategies and target architectures to support future delivery of ICT services to meet the client’s business needs and in accordance with the Government’s ICT and other strategies;
• Provide close support and strategic input to delivery teams, including Agile software delivery;
• Develop and review baseline and transition architectures to support the client's migration planning of ICT services within a business change programme;
• Develop architecture views to describe all aspects of a client's organisation including its Business, Applications, Data and Infrastructure;
• Provide EA leadership to a client to help mature the organisation's architecture governance and develop best practice.


Qualifications and Experience

We work predominantly within the UK Defence and Public Sectors, because of this experience within those sectors is desirable, preferably within the ICT context on enterprise solutions. The fast-moving nature of the ICT environment, together with the need to resource multiple, ad-hoc assignments, also requires our consultants to be quick thinkers, proactive and self-motivated - with the ability to apply a structured approach to often unfamiliar subject matter.

The following attributes and areas of experience will make you particularly suited to this role with Actica:

• Enterprise and Technical Architecture development and review using EA frameworks and methods e.g. TOGAF, MODAF;
• Government Digital Service approaches including the Government Service Design Manual and the Digital by Default service standard;
• Business or systems analysis methods and tools, e.g. BPMN, UML;
• Software development methods and techniques e.g. Agile methods such as SCRUM;
• Public sector best practice guidance, e.g. ITIL, OGC toolkit;
• Business case development to Treasury guidelines.


The nature of Actica’s business means that a wide and varied background is preferable and the capability to adapt quickly to change is always required.

You may not feel that your skills precisely match the requirements of this job specification; however, we encourage you to apply if this is a role that appeals to you. We require individuals with a broad skillset, so there may be other aspects of your experience which are equally important to us, but that are perhaps not listed in the role specification above.

Actica aims to nurture a diverse workforce through inclusive working practices, promoting equality in our recruitment activities, and by employing candidates on the basis of merit. Discrimination against individuals on the grounds of protected characteristics is not permitted and we take steps to ensure that our staff are made aware of their legal responsibilities when making hiring decisions.

We are keen to improve diversity within our organisation and the industries in which we work, and hope to employ individuals who share that view.


While Guildford is our home base, consultants typically spend their time working remotely. For most clients, consultants spend 2-3 days working remotely and 2-3 days co-located with colleagues at a client’s site or our office in Guildford. For some projects, there will a requirement to work up to 5 days a week co-located with colleagues. All work is team based, with a high level of engagement with other Actica and client team members. Consultants are encouraged to get involved in internal activities and to attend company team events whenever possible.

Candidates must be eligible and willing to gain UK Security Clearance to apply for this position.