Enterprise Architect - Synthetics / ITEA / TLS)

Enterprise Architect (Digital Engineering - Synthetics / ITEA / TLS)

Location: Reading, Berkshire
While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.
Rate: Up to £91.75/hour
Clearance: Active SC is mandatory

The opportunity

We're seeking an Enterprise Architect to support sensitive aerospace and defence programmes in Reading . This contract position focuses on Digital Engineering , with responsibility for integrating Virtual Environment solutions across the wider Digital Engineering landscape-covering people, process, and technology.

You'll act as the focal point for Virtual Environment architecture, providing expert guidance across the delivery organisation and helping drive governance, reuse, and secure-by-design principles across the lifecycle.

What you'll be doing (key responsibilities)

• Develop and maintain high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) .
• Provide architectural leadership across people, process, and technology for Virtual Environment / Digital Engineering.
• Support delivery of Digital Twin / Digital Thread , virtual testing, qualification/certification, and training solutions.
• Apply modelling & simulation principles including real-time/time-domain simulation and 'fail first' integration philosophy.
• Translate architecture policies and risk requirements into actionable design standards, governance, and compliance frameworks .
• Support architectural governance, security, regulatory and audit requirements.
• Write and manage RFI and RFQ , and contribute to tool/platform evaluations and proofs of concept.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Delivery Managers, engineering teams, IT, and suppliers-managing stakeholder expectations and delivery impacts.

What we're looking for (requirements)

• Strong Enterprise / Business Architecture experience within MOD, Defence Digital, or UK aerospace/defence environments.
• Active SC clearance (mandatory) ; DV preferred .
• Experience across enterprise, system, data, and technical architecture .
• Strong understanding of digital engineering concepts (digital twins, digital thread, virtual environments, simulation).
• Experience architecting IT software development environments and working across the systems engineering lifecycle. xwwtmva
• Degree in a relevant discipline (Computer Science / IT / Engineering / Maths/Stats or similar) plus architecture certifications such as TOGAF / ArchiMate / CISSP / cloud architecture .

Desirable / nice to have

• Microsoft Azure certification/experience
• SAFe / Agile delivery experience
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevSecOps
• Knowledge of Docker / Kubernetes
• Reporting/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI )
• Flight simulation / synthetic environments exposure

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