Enterprise Architect

Sanderson Recruitment are working with a rapidly growing cloud, infrastructure and managed services organisation that is investing heavily in modern technology, automation and large-scale transformation programmes.

They are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to take ownership of a major, strategically important customer environment. This is a senior, customer-facing role where you'll provide architectural leadership, guide technology strategy, and act as the key link between technical delivery teams and senior customer stakeholders.

The Role

You'll be responsible for:

• Owning the architectural relationship for a large enterprise customer
• Providing technical leadership across infrastructure, platforms and managed services
• Leading modernisation, transformation and service improvement initiatives
• Representing your organisation within architecture, design and governance forums
• Producing and reviewing high and low-level designs
• Ensuring solutions remain aligned to standards, operational best practice and commercial objectives
• Working closely with delivery, operations and senior customer stakeholders to drive successful outcomes

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as an Enterprise, Solution or Lead Architect
• Strong infrastructure knowledge across compute, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery
• Experience delivering large-scale transition, migration or transformation programmes
• Ability to engage confidently with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience operating within architecture governance and change management environments
• Knowledge of cloud, hybrid infrastructure and automation/IaC approaches
• Strong commercial awareness and a pragmatic approach to decision-making

Nice to Have

• Experience within managed services, cloud service providers or complex enterprise environments
• Public sector or regulated industry experience
• Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF, ISO 27001 or similar governance standards

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to influence technology strategy within a high-growth organisation
• Exposure to large-scale transformation programmes
• Ongoing professional development and career progression
• The chance to play a key role in shaping a growing architecture function
• Competitive benefits package

If you're an experienced architect who enjoys combining technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and complex transformation work, we'd like to hear from you.

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