Armstrong Talent Partners
Enterprise Architect
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Enterprise Architect
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to own the architectural relationship between us and one of our largest and most strategically important public sector customers.
This is a senior, customer-facing role dedicated to the architecture and technical leadership of the customer’s environment. The customer runs a largely dedicated infrastructure estate, with a number of managed services hosted on our platforms. You will take the environment on, stabilise and improve it, resolve inherited issues, and lead its ongoing modernisation and transformation. On an enduring basis, you will act as the architectural bridge between the customer and us, representing us within the customer’s own governance, including their Joint Architecture Board, Change Advisory Board, Enterprise Design Authority, and SIAM and related assurance forums.
The role exists to hold both sides together. You will maintain a clear architectural view of the customer’s largely dedicated estate, ensure the managed services we provide integrate cleanly with it, and translate our standards, constraints, and direction into terms the customer can govern against while representing the customer’s needs back. You will be the point of architectural authority and continuity for the account, reducing late escalation and protecting both service quality and commercial outcomes.
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This role is dedicated primarily to the customer’s account. You may contribute to other projects as required, particularly once you are established in the role and the account has moved into its business-as-usual phase.
You will work closely with the Lead Architect, the wider Architecture function, delivery and operations teams, and Sales, as well as senior technical and governance stakeholders within the customer organisation.
Skills
- Significant experience as an enterprise, solution, or lead architect, ideally within a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or Cloud Services Provider (CSP) environment
- Demonstrable experience owning the architectural relationship with a large, complex customer, rather than isolated solutions or components
- Broad and credible hands-on technical experience across compute, storage, networking, backup, and disaster recovery
- Experience of large, multi-year infrastructure programmes, including service take-on, transition, migration, and data centre transformation (public sector advantageous)
- Commercial acumen, including bill of materials creation and validation, licensing approaches, cost modelling, and change control
- Strong awareness of operational and Day-2 considerations, and of the cost of unmanaged bespoke design
- Comfortable using AI-assisted tools and modern technologies to support architecture, documentation, and day-to-day working, and willing to help drive their effective adoption
- Proven ability to work at both enterprise architecture level and detailed design level, and to move credibly between the two.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience working with public sector or regulated customers
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, GDPR)
- Exposure to cloud, hybrid, or sovereign cloud platforms
- Experience in environments focused on automation, infrastructure-as-code, and platform standardisation
Benefits
- 33 days annual leave
- Pension: 5% employee, 5% employer
- Life assurance at 4x salary
- Group income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 years
- Help@Hand: remote GP, physiotherapy, nutritionist, and more
- Cycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes
- 6 fully expensed company events per year
- Option to donate to charity through salary
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