Harvey Nash
Lead IT Enterprise Architect – London
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Lead IT Enterprise Architect – London 6 Months £650-700 Outside IR35
Lead IT Enterprise Architect required for a leading client based in London. This is a pivotal role leading the enterprise architecture strategy for a large-scale OSS/BSS transformation programme within a major UK telecommunications organisation.
You will be embedded within the Global Systems Integrator (GSI) delivery team, operating as the lead architecture authority while maintaining accountability to the end-client sponsor. The successful candidate will play a critical role in balancing the sponsor's long-term strategic objectives with the realities of programme delivery and vendor constraints.
Key Responsibilities: Define and govern the end-to-end enterprise architecture across the OSS/BSS landscape, ensuring alignment with the sponsor's strategic vision while supporting successful programme delivery. Establish architecture principles, standards, and governance frameworks that guide solution design and implementation whilst protecting the organisation's long-term technology capabilities. Identify, assess, and manage architectural risks, technical debt, integration dependencies, and transformation challenges, providing transparent and objective guidance to the client sponsor. Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring architectural decisions support both immediate programme objectives and future business outcomes. Provide independent architectural leadership where competing priorities exist between customer strategy and vendor delivery considerations. Extensive experience in Enterprise Architecture within telecommunications, managed services, or large-scale business and technology transformation programmes. Strong hands-on knowledge of OSS/BSS domains, including Billing, CRM, Order Management, Service Assurance, Inventory Management, and Fulfilment. Proven experience managing architecture relationships across multiple vendors, systems integrators, and delivery partners within outcome-based engagements.
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Interested? Please submit your updated CV to Dean Sadler-Parkes at Harvey Nash for immediate consideration.
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