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Company Description
Egis is a leading global consulting, construction engineering and operating firm. We work together with our clients, across every aspect of transport, energy and the built environment to build a more balanced, sustainable and resilient world. The Egis Group has over 50 years’ experience and a team of 19,500 employees in over 120 countries around the world. Joining our Group means, above all, sharing our values as a people-first company, strongly committed to sustainability and innovation.
In the UK we're proud to be delivering some of the most iconic projects which help connect people, protect our environment and meet emission reduction targets. From motorways to tramways, nuclear power plants to smart cities, clients choose us to help them solve their most complex challenges - delivering climate-responsible growth that meets the needs of communities, industry, and the planet.
Job Description
The M25 is one of our Flagship projects in the UK! It is the most used part of the UK Strategic Road Network with it seeing over 200,000 vehicles per day and it’s a critical infrastructure asset for personal and goods vehicles into and around our capital. The network includes around 800 structures and 5 tunnels, so it requires high levels of performance, constant improvement and repairs to keep it operating smoothly.
We’ve formed a Joint Venture project called Connect Plus Services (CPS) to work with our partners to widen, operate and maintain the M25 under a 30-year contract and looking for an
Enterprise Architect to play a vital role in the delivery of the Digital Transformation of the M25 joint venture (busiest motorway network in Europe) – being instrumental in strategic change programmes and identifying innovative solutions to business needs. Accountability for IT architecture for the M25 IT systems and a roadmap of activity, aligned to architecture principles, to improve the longer-term architecture.
Ensure development and adoption of a consistent structured methodology for enterprise architecture on the M25, reporting progress, developing, and managing an enterprise architecture plan and implementing appropriate governance. Working with the Project Managers and business leads so that the portfolio of projects progress to plan and any concerns are escalated as required to the Head of Business Transformation and Senior Leadership Team.
Work with wider Business Transformation team, sharing architectural principles, logic of architectural decisions and impact for projects, IT service and Information Security. In addition, build strong relationship with communications, HR, Business Planning & Performance, Asset & Network Planning, Asset Delivery and Network Operations to ensure that they are aware of the architectural process, roadmap and improvements.
Work with stakeholders across the M25 community to share lessons on technology decisions, proposals for alternative technology solutions and benefits of consistency around defined technology stacks. Own and manage the Technical Design Authority (TDA), providing challenge on new solutions, understanding how solutions have been developed and ensuring secure by design principles are followed. Identify technical impact for projects / programmes and ensure project and programme managers are managing this effectively.
In conjunction with the Head of Business Transformation, Digital Delivery Lead and IT Service Lead, feed into the development of a digital strategy, vision, and roadmap to build engagement and communicate delivery of the wider portfolio.
Understand financial impact of TDA decisions and work to mitigate any adverse impact on budgets with the Head of Business Transformation.
Support large change programmes, that include procurement exercises, providing input into procurement processes and scoring potential suppliers based on their technical capabilities and alignment to architecture principles.
Self-starter who can work independently but draw upon business teams where required - developing solutions to specific business needs, understanding business requirements, and reviewing solution impacts
Key Responsibilities:
Delivery of enterprise architecture processes and principles.
Development of an enterprise architecture methodology, including key artefacts.
Capture enterprise architecture decisions, providing logic and proposing plans to mitigate these impacts.
Regular updates on progress made and status reporting to the Head of Business Transformation and Business Planning Director.
Running and managing the Technical Design Authority (TDA) to review all proposed technical solutions and focus on bespoke solutions to ensure they have been coded effectively and considered security as part of their development.
Supporting key governance forums, such as the Change Board and providing regular contributions to the Portfolio Review Meeting.
Identification, reporting and tracking of architecture risks, issues, and dependencies. Escalating
About the Company
Egis is an international player active in the consulting, construction engineering and mobility service sectors.
We design and operate intelligent infrastructure and buildings capable of responding to the climate emergency and helping to achieve more balanced, sustainable and resilient territorial development.
With operations in 120 countries, Egis places the expertise of its 19,500 employees at the disposal of its clients and develops cutting-edge innovation accessible to all projects.
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