Enterprise Platform Architect at Reply Limited, London/Remote, 3-6 Months, £Contract Rate

We're seeking an experienced Enterprise Platform Architect to help shape the strategic direction of a large, complex IT enterprise, supporting a fast-moving and varied change portfolio. This role offers the chance to lead on modern application and integration architecture, influence key technology decisions, and collaborate closely with both technical teams and senior business leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the business applications and integration architecture domain, ensuring alignment with overall enterprise strategy and offering strategic direction that blends industry best practices with the organisation's specific needs.

• Develop and maintain long-term roadmaps and strategic plans for enterprise business applications that support both technology and business objectives.

• Create and uphold architecture standards, principles, patterns, and guidelines for applications and integration, ensuring these are actionable and adoptable by product and delivery teams.

• Provide architecture oversight by engaging with delivery teams and programmes, and through participation in architecture forums and governance boards to ensure solutions adhere to strategic direction.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, offering subject matter expertise and thought leadership across the application and integration space.

• Contribute to and maintain shared architecture artefacts, knowledge bases, and tooling to support the broader enterprise architecture function and its community of practice.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in applying architectural principles to design and implement changes across business and technical landscapes, particularly in business application and integration architecture.

• Solid understanding and practical experience of architectural governance and standard enterprise architecture frameworks and processes.

• Familiarity with IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS environments and how these relate to enterprise application architecture.

• Demonstrated ability to design and advocate for forward-thinking technical strategies while considering the interplay between people, process, and technology.

• Strong ability to view the organisation holistically, identifying cross-functional impacts and aligning architecture accordingly.

• Experience analysing complex business challenges and shaping practical and innovative solutions with clear technical implications.

• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including the ability to influence and negotiate at all organisational levels, from technical teams to senior leadership.

• Practical knowledge of methodologies and frameworks such as SAFe, Agile, ITIL, and DevSecOps.

• In-depth understanding of modern technology trends and broad technical expertise.

• Familiarity with architectural frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman.

• Experience evaluating and working with multiple service and technology providers, with the ability to recommend effective sourcing strategies.

• Hands-on experience with modern integration patterns, including APIs, containers, and microservices.

• Strong working knowledge of public and hybrid cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft 365, and Google Cloud Platform.

This is a hybrid role - twice a week in the office in London