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Job Description
This role will be involved in supporting various Internal Costain, Customers as well as Government Departments and associated arms length organisations.
Client facing skills and stakeholder management are therefore critical 'must have' skills.
You must be prepared to be Security Cleared to relevant levels if not already held or transferable. (BPSS or SC)
Skills needed for this role (Relevant skill level: SFIA 5-7)
- Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical by understanding and elucidating business outcomes and requirements together with the technology principles to design and communicate a technology roadmap to meet stakeholder needs.
- You will mediate between people and manage relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
- Governance. You will understand how technology design and governance works with wider governance - for example, budget. You will assure corporate services by understanding important risks and mitigating through assurance mechanisms.
- Making and guiding decisions. You will make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity. You will build consensus between organisations (private or public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders.
- Strategy. You will shape and influencing Costain and client business and Technical strategy. You will own and be responsible for setting strategies, patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements.
- Turning business problems into technical design. You will design systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity.
- Understanding the whole context. You will understand trends and practices outside the organisation and how these will impact on your work. You will anticipate changing policy.
Responsibilities
An Enterprise Architect leads at the highest level and is responsible for making sure the strategy is agreed and followed. At this level, you will:
- Network and communicate with senior stakeholders across supplier and customer organisations, and proactively seek out opportunities for digital transformation.
- Support multiple teams, finding and using best practice and emerging technologies.
- Inspire other architects and help them understand how to deliver the goals of the organisation.
- Be responsible for governance, solving complex and high-risk issues or delivering architecture design.
- Identify existing patterns for reuse, new patterns to add to the approved design framework and where novel, bespoke designs are appropriate.
- Ensure cyber security and other policies are followed.
Qualifications
Essential
- Experience of designing and independently assuring the completeness of solutions to meet principles, policies and guidelines.
- Have an experienced understanding of Architecture frameworks (e.g. GDS, TOGAF, NIST Cyber Security Framework, ISF Standard, SABSA) .
- Industry experience with an understanding of both IT and OT requirements and solutions, and the relevant UK standards and regulations.
- Security legislation and regulatory frameworks (e.g. DPA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, UK Gov Good Practice Guides).
- Detailed awareness of security methodologies and industry standards (e.g. ISO27001, NIST, SANS).
Desirable
- TOGAF
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Azure Advance
- CISSP certified, or equivalent certification, NIST Cyber Security Framework, ISF Standard),
- GIAC or CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent).
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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