Manager – Enterprise Architect

Squarcle

Enterprise Architect role at Squarcle Consulting involves shaping technology strategy and engaging with senior clients. Requires significant experience in enterprise architecture within consultancy.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeBristol • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide strategic technology advice to senior client stakeholders such as CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, and business directors, clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
Shape major change and transformation programmes in collaboration with client executives, contributing architectural insight to business cases, options analyses, and investment decisions.
Engage directly with clients, onsite and remotely, to address complex and strategically important technology challenges, applying both deep technical expertise and pragmatic delivery experience.
Act as an authoritative voice on technology direction at executive and programme levels, influencing long‑term technology strategy and aligning decisions to business outcomes.
Define and maintain the client’s target enterprise architecture, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operating models and regulatory context.
Develop and own multi‑year technology roadmaps spanning applications, data, infrastructure and security.
Establish and govern architecture principles, standards and reference models that drive consistency, re-use and architectural coherence across portfolios.
Lead enterprise‑level architecture assessments and gap analyses, identifying rationalisation, modernisation and cost‑optimisation opportunities within the technology estate.
Oversee the coherence of multiple solution architectures, ensuring they integrate into a unified, scalable, secure and strategically aligned enterprise landscape.
Create enterprise ‑ wide architectural artefacts (e.g. capability maps, application and data landscapes, integration blueprints) to support decision ‑ making and transformation planning.
Chair or play a leading role in architecture governance forums, such as the Squarcle Digital Governance Board, assuring all designs align with enterprise standards, NCSC 'Secure by Design' principles, and / or the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, assuring solution designs against agreed enterprise standards, principles and long term strategic direction.
Manage multi-stream digital delivery within regulated, high-security Defence environments, leading teams of 5-15 consultants and ensuring solutions are designed for scale and resilience.
Collaborate with delivery and programme teams to ensure architecture is translated into executable plans and that anticipated business and technology benefits are realised.
Support risk and assurance activities by reviewing major programmes, identifying enterprise-level architectural risks and dependencies, and ensuring they are managed effectively.
Ensure multi‑domain non‑functional requirements, including security, performance, resilience, and data governance, are designed into and validated within proposed solutions.
Mentor G1-G3 consultants.
Develop and maintain reusable enterprise assets (frameworks, templates, reference architectures, secure patterns, agentic AI models) for use across engagements.
Support business development by contributing high‑quality enterprise architecture insight to bids, proposals, and client presentations, helping to shape compelling and differentiated client solutions.
Deliver robust architectural quality assurance across all deliverables, ensuring they meet agreed standards, principles, and best‑practice expectations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active Security Clearance (or capable of achieving SC).
Degree-level qualification (2:1 or above) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business or a related discipline.
Significant practical enterprise architecture experience (5+ years) at senior/strategic level, shaping technology strategy and roadmaps across complex organisations.
Strong background in digital transformation, cloud adoption and modernisation of legacy estates (applications, data and infrastructure).
Proven experience working in a consulting or professional services environment, engaging directly with senior client stakeholders.
Deep understanding of common EA frameworks and practices (TOGAF primarily, plus NAF, MODAF, etc.), and how to apply them pragmatically.
Track record of leading architecture governance, standards definition and assurance across multiple programmes or portfolios.
Experience developing and maintaining enterprise-wide artefacts such as capability maps, application and data landscapes, and integration blueprints.
Solid knowledge of cloud platforms (primarily Azure, but good knowledge and skills on AWS or GCP will be considered), integration patterns, data platforms and cybersecurity principles at an enterprise level.
Ability to apply the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework (or equivalent) to design and review cloud workloads across reliability, security, cost optimisation, operational excellence and performance efficiency.
Evidence of influencing major investment decisions through options analysis, business cases and total cost of ownership assessments.
Experience coordinating and aligning multiple solution architectures to a coherent target enterprise architecture.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop solution architects and senior technologists, building architecture capability within teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous leave package 26 days of annual leave (including your birthday!) plus UK bank holidays - increasing to 27 days after three years, and 28 after seven years
You’ll also get five extra days for your five and 10-year anniversaries
Additional leave for members of the Reserve Forces and CFAV.
Private medical insurance Provided once you’ve completed your probation.
Recognition and rewards £1,000 referral bonus for successful hires
Performance-related awards
Milestone and life-event hampers to celebrate life’s big moments
Development & learning Annual training week abroad
Funding for qualifications that benefit both you and the business
Travel & wellbeing Cycle to work scheme
Discounted travel through funded railcards
Pension Our pension provider is NOW Pensions, pension contributions are 3% employer and 5% employee
We review our benefits regularly to ensure they stay competitive and meaningful - so this list may evolve as we grow.

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architecturedigital transformationcloud adoptionlegacy modernisationarchitecture governanceTOGAFMicrosoft Azure Well-Architected Frameworkintegration patternsdata platformscybersecurity principles

Soft Skills

strategic advicestakeholder engagementmentoringinfluencingcollaborationcommunicationleadershiprisk managementdecision-makingquality assurance

Certifications

Active Security Clearancedegree in Computer Sciencedegree in Information Technologydegree in Engineeringdegree in Business