Overview
This contract role for a Senior Platform Architect involves providing architectural leadership for a key platform programme. The contractor will work closely with business analysts, senior stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure that business requirements are effectively translated into coherent architectural solutions, while aligning with enterprise standards. The position offers the flexibility of remote work with occasional travel requirements.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to shape and challenge requirements, processes, and user journeys.
- Map how the platform interacts with broader business capabilities, systems, data, and processes.
- Translate business needs into clear architectural requirements, options, and decisions.
- Define and evolve the target operating model and platform architecture in line with enterprise standards and strategy.
- Identify integration points, dependencies, gaps, and risks across platforms.
- Assure solution designs and supplier proposals through clear challenge and recommendations.
- Engage with senior stakeholders regarding architectural direction, decisions, and trade-offs.
- Support the transition to the target state and handover into BAU architecture and support teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Platform Architect or Business Architect, preferably with cross-domain expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to shape complex business and technology transformation programmes from requirements to delivery.
- Strong understanding of business capabilities, processes, platforms, data, and integration.
- Confidence in collaborating with both business and technical teams.
- Experience with complex SaaS, cloud, and enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with Salesforce, Azure, or AWS is advantageous.
- Proficient in stakeholder management, including interaction with senior leadership, programme governance, and third-party suppliers.