New Job Opening: Enterprise Architect in Remote
About this role
Job title: Enterprise Architect Job type: Permanent Emp type: Full-time Salary type: Annual Salary: negotiable Location: Remote Job published: 28/08/2026 Job ID: 94949 Job Description Enterprise Architect Role Type - Fixed Term Contract role (salaried) Salary: £44,746 - £56,535 per annum (negotiable) plus excellent benefits Duration: 23 Months Location: Buckinghamshire & remote Start: ASAP Role Overview: An Enterprise Architect is required for our higher education client to work on a specific programme which is a major internal digital transformation project. The programme will focus on replacing their legacy student management system with a new student records management system which will improve the overall student journey. As the Enterprise Architect you will provides strategic technical leadership across the client's application, data, and integration landscape. The role is responsible for defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring that technology investments align with institutional strategy, architectural principles, security standards, and long-term sustainability objectives. You will work closely with their digital transformation, systems development, infrastructure, data and business stakeholders to provide architectural oversight for major initiatives, advise on solution design, and ensure coherent evolution of the client's systems estate. Essential Skills & Experience required: Degree qualified or equivalent demonstrable experience as an Enterprise Architect TOGAF or equivalent certification or demonstrable enterprise architecture experience Extensive experience in enterprise, solution, or application architecture within complex organisations Experience designing integration architectures and data exchange frameworks Experience aligning technology strategy with business transformation initiatives Experience working with cloud-based platforms and modern application architectures Ability to translate business strategy into technical architecture Experience operating within governance-driven or regulated environments Previous experience of working within the Higher Education sector is desirable/advantageous Excellent stakeholder engagement skills Responsibilities include: To define and maintain the Client's enterprise architecture principles, standards, and target-state architecture. Provide architectural oversight and design assurance for major programmes and projects. Ensure alignment between business strategy, application architecture, data architecture, and integration patterns. Advise on technology selection, integration approaches, and technical risk mitigation. Promote architectural consistency, sustainability, and security across the systems landscape. Contribute to digital investment governance and long-term technology roadmap planning. Ensure compliance with relevant security, regulatory, and information governance standards. If this role is of interest, please email your CV to: joanne .stanley@certes.co.uk or contact me on 01675 468926 Apply Share this job Consultant Joanne Stanley joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... × Our use of cookies We use necessary cookies to make our site work. We'd also set analytics cookies to help us improve it. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences. Necessary Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. Statistics Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies page .
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in the UK advertise this kind of work as Solutions Architect, Software Architect, Technical Architect and AI Solutions Architect too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a lead or principal Technology Architecture role in the UK, advertised as fully remote, so it is open to candidates working from home.
About hiring at Certes
Certes appears alongside 4 other live technology roles on this source domain, across Cloud & IT Infrastructure, Technology Architecture and Networks & Telecommunications. Among 3 roles with a known arrangement, 100% are fully remote and 0% hybrid. We have observed technology postings on Certes since July 2026. See all Certes roles, salaries and stack.
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