Vice President (12 months contract), Technology (Enterprise Architect)

What you'll do

• Act as a trusted architecture governance advisor to technology leadership and governance forums.
• Take part in architecture reviews, design authority forums, technology governance discussions, and risk or security review sessions.
• Give practical governance-aware architecture guidance while ensuring adherence to enterprise standards, control expectations, and architecture decision frameworks.
• Challenge solution decisions where needed and document governance recommendations with clear rationale, risks, benefits, exceptions, and conditions for approval.
• Work with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure design artefacts are complete, consistent, and fit for governance review.
• Produce clear written recommendations and executive-ready summaries for architecture decisions, risks, exceptions, and trade-offs.
• Define, maintain, and communicate enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Assess whether proposed technology designs and platform decisions align with business strategy, operating models, enterprise standards, and target-state architecture direction.
• Assess current-state architecture across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, operations, and security domains.
• Review and guide target-state architecture and transition roadmaps to support modernization, simplification, resilience, interoperability, and strategic technology alignment.
• Lead architecture governance through design reviews, quality gates, standards enforcement, architecture decision records, and technology decision frameworks.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to identify capability gaps, technology risks, architecture deviations, control gaps, and governance exceptions.
• Provide architecture guidance to solution architects, domain architects, engineering teams, and application teams to ensure designs align with enterprise architecture direction and governance expectations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, SaaS platforms, cloud services, integration approaches, data platforms, AI/Agentic AI capabilities, and vendor solutions for enterprise fit, risk, and business value.
• Ensure architecture decisions support security, privacy, resilience, interoperability, performance, scalability, cost efficiency, operational supportability, and regulatory compliance