Architecture Lead - IT/OT

Architecture Lead - IT/OT

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - market rate

Glasgow or Aberdeen based - 1-2 days onsite

Electricity/Energy sector

Key Responsibilities

Interim Architecture Leadership

• Act as the effective interim leader of the Transmission Architecture function, providing leadership broadly equivalent to that expected of the permanent Head of Architecture.
• Provide day-to-day direction, prioritisation and coordination for the architecture team.
• Establish clear priorities and ensure the team's effort is focused on the most important business, technology and delivery outcomes.

Enterprise Architecture

• Provide heavyweight Enterprise Architecture leadership across the Transmission organisation.
• Shape and maintain architectural strategies, principles, target architectures and roadmaps.
• Ensure architecture is aligned with wider Group technology and architecture strategy.

Architecture Assurance & Governance

• Lead the architectural assurance of major projects, programmes, technology initiatives and supplier-led delivery.
• Establish appropriate architectural guardrails and ensure they are understood and applied.
• Review and challenge Solution Architecture produced by project teams, suppliers and other delivery organisations.

IT & OT Architecture

• Provide senior architectural leadership across both IT and Operational Technology environments.
• Participate in high-level technology and project discussions across Transmission.
• Understand and account for the specific operational, technical, resilience and risk considerations associated with OT environments.
• Help ensure appropriate architectural alignment across the IT/OT boundary.

Project & Solution Architecture

• Provide senior oversight of Solution Architecture across projects and programmes.
• Work with project teams to shape and assure solutions without becoming primarily responsible for project delivery.

Experience & Skills

Essential

• Extensive experience operating at senior Enterprise Architecture level.
• Strong Solution Architecture experience and the ability to move comfortably between enterprise and solution-level concerns.
• Proven experience leading an architecture team, function or significant architecture community.
• Significant experience working in Operational Technology (OT) environments.
• Experience working across the IT/OT boundary.
• Previous people leadership, team management or equivalent leadership experience.
• Broad technical knowledge across areas such as applications, data, integration, infrastructure, platforms and technology.
• Strong experience of architecture governance, assurance, standards, principles and target architectures.
• Experience working across large, complex transformation and technology portfolios.
• Experience working with senior business, technology and delivery stakeholders.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in an asset-intensive organisation or environment.

Highly Desirable

• Direct experience within the electricity industry, particularly transmission, distribution or generation.
• Wider energy or utilities sector experience.
• Experience within large-scale infrastructure or capital investment organisations.
• Experience providing architectural leadership across major transformation programmes.
• Experience working with architecture repositories and modelling tools, particularly Bizzdesign.
• Experience working within a federated architecture model alongside a Group or enterprise architecture function.
• Experience establishing or developing an architecture function within a complex organisation.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.