Enterprise Architect - DV cleared

+6 months +

+DV cleared role - current active clearance is essential

+Outside IR35

+£550 - £580 a day

+Hybrid working

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect / Business Architect with strong MOD experience to support the development, maintenance and direction of a business architecture model within a highly secure environment.

The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs and requirements into structured architectural outputs, helping to resolve complex architectural challenges and ensure long-term coherence across stakeholder groups, platforms and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and evolve business and enterprise architecture models.
• Translate complex and ambiguous stakeholder requirements into structured architectural outputs.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and structured requirements elicitation sessions.
• Identify architectural gaps, conflicts and dependencies and propose appropriate resolution approaches.
• Work across multiple levels of abstraction, from strategic drivers through to business processes and capabilities.
• Produce architecture documentation and tailored architectural views for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintain and structure complex Enterprise Architecture repositories using Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Apply ArchiMate 3, UML and BPMN appropriately.
• Support requirements management, relationship mapping and reporting within Sparx EA.
• Work collaboratively with data, security, platform and other architecture disciplines.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Business Architect or similar.
• Significant experience working within the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) is essential.
• Experience operating in complex, multi-stakeholder Defence environments.
• Strong understanding and practical application of TOGAF and Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
• Proficient in ArchiMate 3.
• Strong UML experience, including Use Case, Activity and Sequence diagrams.
• Working knowledge of BPMN for process modelling.
• Strong hands-on experience with Sparx Enterprise Architect, including maintaining complex EA repositories.
• Experience with Sparx EA requirements management, relationship matrices and reporting capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous stakeholder requirements into structured architectural concepts.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience producing architecture documentation and views for different stakeholder groups.

If you'd like to discuss this role in further detail, please send your updated CV to chloe.manerowski@cbsbutler.com and I will get in touch.