Enterprise Architect

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About The Role

Balfour Beatty are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role in driving the Digital Transformation on our Connect Plus Services M25 joint venture – Europe’s busiest motorway network. This position will be central to delivering strategic change programmes and devising innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs. You will hold accountability for the IT architecture underpinning the M25 systems and lead the development of a comprehensive roadmap, aligned with established architecture principles, to enhance and future‑proof the organisation’s technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of enterprise architecture processes and principles.
• Development of an enterprise architecture methodology, including key artefacts.
• Capture enterprise architecture decisions, providing logic and proposing plans to mitigate these impacts.
• Regular updates on progress made and status reporting to the Head of Business Transformation and Business Planning Director.
• Running and managing the Technical Design Authority (TDA) to review all proposed technical solutions and focus on bespoke solutions to ensure they have been coded effectively and considered security as part of their development.
• Supporting key governance forums, such as the Change Board and providing regular contributions to the Portfolio Review Meeting.
• Identification, reporting and tracking of architecture risks, issues, and dependencies. Escalating as required.

Qualifications

• Experience successfully running enterprise architecture for small and medium sized organisations.
• Strong understanding of established architectural frameworks.
• Experience supporting delivery of technical solutions and ensuring compliance with business requirements.
• Presenting updates at complex governance forums.
• Engaging senior level stakeholders and obtaining buy‑in.
• Developing an enterprise architecture strategy organisation‑wide, along with roadmap, and communicating this to the business.
• Shaping of enterprise architecture initiatives and activities.
• Understanding of M25 business, digital technology and its application.
• Engaging third‑party suppliers to understand their technical solutions and their development roadmaps.
• Interdependency identification and tracking.
• Management of technical debt.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
• Technical proficiency in data platforms (e.g., AWS Redshift, MS SQL Server), BI tools (e.g., Power BI), and scripting (SQL, Python/R).

Desirable

Information Security experience and understanding of NIS (Network and Information Systems) regulations and ISO27001 accreditation.

Why Work for Us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Benefits

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family‑friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About Us

Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies – Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole‑life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.

We are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long‑term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We also commit to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.

Job Details

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Part‑time
Job function: Information Technology
Industry: Construction