Join Accenture as an Enterprise Architect Manager in London, Bristol, or Manchester. This full-time, client-facing role operates within secure environments, focusing on shaping and delivering complex digital transformation programmes for UK Defence and National Security clients.
Requirements
Experience working within secure UK environments such as Defence, Public Safety, or National Security.
Experience in one or more architecture domains including Business, Application, Data, or Technology.
Background in large-scale or sensitive digital transformation programmes.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Full professional proficiency in English.
Mandatory: Must hold valid Security Check (SC) clearance, pass BPSS checks, and be a British passport holder with no dual nationality.
No specific degree requirement or minimum years of experience stated in the posting.
Skills & Responsibilities
Strategic Enterprise Architecture: Translate business strategy into target states, transformation roadmaps, and architectural blueprints across complex landscapes.
Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted advisor between business units, technology teams, and third-party suppliers to guide executive decision-making.
Governance & Operating Models: Establish enterprise architecture governance and operating models aligned with standards and business outcomes.
Vendor & Platform Assessments: Conduct end-to-end platform assessments across technology, data, and integration layers including cloud and enterprise platforms.
Potential transition routes: People from solution architect, technology strategist, or senior consulting roles may bring strong architectural frameworks and stakeholder management skills, alongside meeting mandatory security clearance and domain experience requirements.
Job description
Role: Enterprise Architect, Defence and National Security (DV)
We are growing our Enterprise Architecture capability within Accenture UK’s Technology Strategy and Advisory practice and are looking for experienced Enterprise Architect Managers to help shape and deliver some of the UK Government’s most complex and high-impact transformation programmes.
In this role, you will work at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and data, partnering with senior client stakeholders to define enterprise architecture vision, roadmaps, and operating models that enable meaningful, large-scale change. You’ll lead architectural thinking across complex environments, influence key decisions, and help organisations realise value through modern technology platforms, data and emerging capabilities.
This is a client-facing role in secure environments, suited to architects who enjoy combining strategic thinking with practical delivery and who want to play a leadership role in shaping enterprise-wide defence and national security outcomes.
What you’ll do
As an Enterprise Architect Manager, you will:
Translate business strategy into enterprise architecture vision, target states and transformation roadmaps
Assess the impact of strategic change across the enterprise architecture landscape, including business, application, data, technology, infrastructure and operations
Lead the development of enterprise architecture blueprints, illustrating end-to-end technology landscapes, integrations and data flows
Provide architecture leadership across strategic, complex digital reinvention and transformation programmes
Develop value cases and investment justifications to support executive decision-making
Apply Lean and Agile enterprise architecture principles to complex technology environments
Conduct end-to-end vendor and platform assessments across technology, data and integration layers
Act as a trusted advisor between business, technology teams and third-party suppliers, facilitating and concluding key architectural decisions
Establish and apply enterprise architecture governance, ensuring initiatives align to agreed standards while enabling business outcomes
Lead the design and governance of enterprise data platform capabilities, including integration and automation
Define and support implementation of enterprise architecture operating models
Deliver enterprise architecture maturity assessments and improvement roadmaps
Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies, identifying opportunities to drive innovation and change
What we’re looking for
We are looking for individuals who bring strong technology strategy and/or enterprise architecture experience combined with the ability to operate confidently in secure, complex client environments.
You will have:
Experience working within secure UK environments (e.g., Defence/Defence Industry, Public Safety, National Security)
Experience in one or more architecture domains: Business, Application, Data and/or Technology
A background of involvement in large-scale, complex or highly-sensitive digital transformation or reinvention programmes
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior audiences
The ability to work and communicate across different levels of architectural abstraction
An inquisitive mindset with interest in emerging technologies such as AI, data, cloud, automation and robotics
Full professional proficiency in English
Set yourself apart
We are particularly interested in candidates who have some or all of the following:
Deep knowledge of the secure UK Government sector and its technology landscape
Previous consulting experience
Knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital / Data strategies
Experience as a solution architect, enterprise architect or technology strategist
Experience in enterprise architecture initiatives such as application rationalisation, re-platforming, modernisation and data architecture transformation
Experience with business capability models, process taxonomies and maturity assessments
Experience designing or governing data platform architectures, including data quality, metadata, security, privacy and compliance
Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
Experience with hyperscale and enterprise platforms (e.g. SAP, Workday, Oracle, Salesforce, public cloud providers)
Experience contributing to or designing AI-enabled solutions
Experience using enterprise architecture tools such as LeanIX, Avolution, Orbus, Bizzdesign or similar
Please note that any offer and commencement of employment is subject to:
Confirmation that you already hold valid Security Check (SC) clearance
Successful Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks
You declaration that you are a British passport holder with no dual nationality at the point of application
These requirements are mandated by our clients and align with UK Government security policies.
Working arrangements
This is a client-facing role within secure environments. We support flexible and hybrid working where possible, balanced with the requirement to spend time on-site with clients and partners to deliver high-quality outcomes.
What’s in it for you
In addition to a competitive salary, you’ll receive an extensive benefits package, including:
30 days’ annual leave
Private medical insurance
Three additional paid days per year for charitable or volunteering activities
Access to Accenture’s global learning, development and career progression opportunities
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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