Enterprise Architect

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Enterprise Architect

Category: Architecture

Main location: United Kingdom, UK Wide - Various, UK Wide - Various

Position ID: J

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Description
As an Enterprise Architect in our advisory team, you will help our clients understand the impact technology can make on the business, where their technology estate needs to evolve and grow, and the most effective way to deliver business value through technology.

We want you to rapidly become a trusted advisor, excel at stakeholder engagement, and turn achievable roadmaps into actionable plans. You will be bringing your skills and experience to help our clients mature their capabilities to align technology and business strategies.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

We work with clients across all sectors, and we may ask you to undergo clearances as necessary. CGI operates a hybrid working approach where we expect our partners to visit our clients or CGI offices as needed for project assignments, which varies but can typically be around 2 days per week.

Your Future Duties And Responsibilities
In this role, you will shape technology direction for our clients by assessing their current landscape, defining future-state architectures, and creating pragmatic, achievable plans that deliver measurable business value. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, helping them understand how technology can drive outcomes and guiding them through the change journey.

You will take the lead in designing integrated solutions, influencing major decisions, and supporting delivery teams to ensure architectures evolve in line with strategic objectives. You will be encouraged to explore new ideas, take ownership of key engagements, and collaborate across CGI's expert community to bring forward innovative, business-aligned solutions.

Key Things We Are Looking For
You have already developed a pragmatic outlook and know that Enterprise Architecture is as much understanding the business on their own terms as it is defining and managing a technology estate. You have been around long enough to have made mistakes - quite a lot of them – but you have learned from them and can recognise when someone else is about to do the same and course-correct.

You have a track record of working with senior stakeholders and understand the importance of speaking to them in their own language, recognising individual viewpoints to address concerns.

You have a variety of approaches in your toolkit and use them effectively to understand business need, determine the required change and oversee its implementation to deliver business value. These include market knowledge, requirements gathering, capability mapping, vendor selection and achievable roadmaps.

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
You might have started in software engineering, infrastructure, or business analysis. You don't have to have worked for a consulting firm to be a good Consultant. What matters is that you have honesty, integrity and a flair for problem solving. You enjoy working closely with clients and know that hard truths must be tempered with solutions.

You have a heads-up approach, look for the bigger picture, recognise and shape opportunities. You understand the commercial aspects of Consulting and look forward to being a key contributor to business development – writing proposals and presenting solutions to prospective clients.

Some of the experience we're looking for you to demonstrate:

Architecture – you will have worked with some or all of SOA, Microservices, EDA, and know the impacts of adopting Cloud.

Agile Solution Delivery – you are comfortable with Agile/Continuous Architecture approaches and understand that one size doesn't fit all.

Integration – you have experienced different integration options, such as an ESB, ETL, P2P, and know the benefits and pitfalls.

Cloud – you are familiar with legacy migration and cloud-native approaches for at least one of AWS, Azure and GCP.

Data – you know quality data is the lifeblood of an organisation and have experience in Information & Data Modelling and Standards, Metadata Management, Data Condition and Quality.

Governance – you have been responsible for setting up and chairing ARB and TDA.

Service Management – you are familiar with the concepts of ITIL, SIAM; you understand the benefits of Service Blueprints and Service Design Wrappers.

Vendor and Supplier Management – you can objectively review supplier delivery teams, contracts and commercial structures; you've led vendor selections.

EA Frameworks – you are at least aware of Zachman and TOGAF, LeanIX, iServer, Archimate.

Skills

• Change Management
• Enterprise Architecture

What You Can Expect From Us
Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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