Job title: Enterprise Architect – Interim / Contract
Location: The West of England Combined Authority - Bristol

Set up: Hybrid (2 days per week in office)
Duration: 6 months
Reports to: Head of Digital, Data & Operations

Rate: £996 per day inside IR35

Role Purpose

They are developing a new Digital and Data Strategy to transform the way they work. While this work is underway, they need an experienced Enterprise Architect to ensure current and future technology decisions align with their emerging strategy, avoiding duplication, improving integration, and laying the foundations for better governance and smarter investment.

Key Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Rapid assessment of current technology and data architecture, identifying duplication, gaps, and opportunities to consolidate (building on existing high-level system capability assessment)
• Tactical guidance for projects and procurement decisions to align with emerging Digital and Data Strategy principles.
• Development of a high-level target architecture and roadmap covering core systems, integrations, and data flows.
• Recommendations for governance processes to support future technology investment decisions.

Skills and Experience

• Proven track record in enterprise architecture within complex organisations (ideally with public sector or multi-stakeholder environments).
• Strong experience in system consolidation, integration design, and technology governance.
• Ability to translate strategic aims into practical architecture principles and decision frameworks.
• Confident engaging with both technical teams and senior non-technical stakeholders.
• Skilled in balancing short-term tactical needs with long-term strategic direction.

Supporting Information

What is the need for the role?

• Risk of siloed or overlapping solutions (existing or new OIP projects)
• Need to make some tactical choices now that align with emerging strategy
• Need to build a clear, sustainable, future roadmap as part of the strategy work – define a target technology architecture, supported by governance frameworks, to guide investment and delivery once the strategy is adopted.
• Unlock the value of data by ensuring data architecture enables integration, quality, and insight, not ad-hoc system fixes