Principal Enterprise Architect at UK Health Security Agency, London, 12 Months, £Contract Rate

As a Principal Enterprise Architect your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead the continuous evolution of UKHSA’s enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps across business, data, applications, and technology.
• Translate strategic objectives into coherent capability maps, target states, and transition architectures that maximise value and minimise risk.
• Support architecture assurance through Architecture Review Boards, Design Authorities and Technical Councils, ensuring decisions reduce complexity, technical debt, and total cost of ownership.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, service owners, programme directors, and delivery teams, influencing decisions with data driven evidence, options, and trade off analysis.
• Communicate complex architecture topics with clarity, logical structure, and actionable recommendations tailored to the audience ranging from business to technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach solution architects, domain architects, and technical leaders, building a culture of excellence, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Lead architectural risk management, ensuring appropriate controls for security, resilience, data ethics, and compliance in regulated environments.
• Influence and assure architectural integrity across supplier led programmes, including cloud service providers, systems integrators, and delivery partners.

Essential:

• Substantial experience establishing and executing enterprise-wide principles, standards, blueprints, roadmaps, and patterns that drive business value and delivery outcomes.
• Extensive track record shaping and executing digital and data transformation, including business change, legacy modernisation, and cloud first strategies integrating products and services across complex ecosystems.
• Proven experience in architecture governance, design assurance, and decision forums. Able to define controls that enable iterative delivery without stifling innovation.
• Strong strategic mindset, adept at defining target enterprise architecture states, sequencing change, and using data/analytics for evidence driven decision making.
• Dynamic leadership with excellent interpersonal skills. Able to communicate, present, negotiate, and drive impactful change with senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong soft skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, shift mindsets and build consensus in environments with varying levels of architectural maturity.
• Ability to link architecture decisions to business outcomes, benefits, and risks (cost, resilience, operability, sustainability).
• Practical experience implementing EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and modelling notations (e.g., ArchiMate, UML, BPMN) in real world transformation contexts.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.