Enterprise Architect (6 – 12 month Contract)

We are Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.

How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with collaborative people, technically minded people and innovative people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.

More about your role

Working as part of our integration team for our largest ever IT project, you will be responsible for architectural design and documentation of the current and future architectural states within the scope of the programme including application, data, integration and infrastructure landscape.

Working with the architecture community across application, integration and infrastructure you will be instrumental in providing guidance and support in architecture activities. You will also be responsible for creating and managing the architecture frameworks which includes enterprise architecture principles, standards reference models, governance and reporting to support the business operations of the architecture function

This is a senior role which will require the ability to communicate complex architectural plans and strategies to a wide variety of audiences so your communications skills must be strong. The ability to oversee delivery, inspire your team/peers and manage solution development with clear priorities will also be needed.

The role can be based from home, however you may in the future need to visit our office in Preston, Lancashire for collaboration meetings.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More about you

We are looking for someone with strong industry knowledge, experience and expertise that can be applied to the programme and business requirements; to advise, guide, and contribute to a targeted tactical and/or strategic solution which addresses the programme and business requirement within a nominal timeframe. You should have prior experience completing assignments as an Enterprise Architect with proven knowledge of application integration and infrastructure architecture.

You should possess experience of working in a fast paced programme to agreed deadlines, with experience of developing architectural deliverables including reference architecture, principles, business capability models, roadmaps, financial plans. Finally you should also have experience of SOA and working to agile/hybrid project methodology.

This role is initially a 6 month contract although it may be extended through to Oct 2021.

The benefits

Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that’s why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.

Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership – to a wealth of extra perks including discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.