ERP Enterprise Architect at Next Ventures, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

Next Ventures is seeking an experienced ERP Enterprise Architect for a contract role with our client in Europe.

Start Date: April

Location: UK

Duration: 12 months + ext

Rate: Outside IR35

Description

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership & Strategy

• Govern Enterprise Architecture artefacts including Enterprise Architecture Vision, Target State, Roadmaps, Principles, and
• Standards across all corporate domains.
• Define and maintain the Enterprise Target Architecture spanning business, application, data, integration, and technology layers, with explicit focus on transversal capabilities and shared platforms.
• Ensure enterprise architecture supports strategic objectives including growth, cost optimisation, resilience, regulatory compliance, and digital enablement.
• Act as architectural authority for major transformation initiatives, ensuring consistency, reuse, and reduction of fragmentation across the enterprise landscape.

Transformation & Portfolio Governance

• Provide architectural leadership across multi year transformation programmes (Finance, HR, Procurement, Enterprise Platforms, Data & Analytics).
• Govern transition architectures to enable phased delivery, coexistence with legacy systems, and controlled decommissioning.
• Ensure transformation initiatives are aligned to enterprise capability models and deliver measurable business value.
• Support investment decisions by assessing architectural impact, technical debt, and long-term sustainability of proposed solutions.

Transversal Landscape & Corporate Domain Architecture

• Build the transversal application and integration landscape, including ERP, EPM, HR platforms, integration platforms, data platforms, identity, and shared services.
• Ensure coherent end to end process design across corporate domains, avoiding siloed implementations and duplicated capabilities.
• Govern cross-domain process, data, and system dependencies (e.g. Finance–HR–Procurement–Supply Chain–Customer).
• Define standards for shared services, common components, and enterprise platforms to maximise reuse and interoperability.
• Finance Domain Architecture (Primary Corporate Domain)
• Outline the architecture elements on Finance Process Architecture across Record to Report (R2R), Procure to Pay (P2P), Quote to Cash (Q2C), Project Accounting, Asset Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Consolidation, and FP&A, Hire-to-Retire (HR), Contract Management Sales and
• Ensure finance transformation outcomes (standardisation, automation, controls, analytics) are embedded in enterprise architecture decisions.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS/GAAP, SOX, VAT/GST, and multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements.

Data, Integration & Information Architecture

• Build the Enterprise Data Architecture, including Global Data Models, Canonical Data Models, and analytical architectures across corporate domains.
• Govern integration architecture (iPaaS or equivalent), ensuring consistency, scalability, and data integrity across the enterprise.
• Define enterprise data governance principles covering data quality, lineage, ownership, reconciliation, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure analytical and reporting architectures support enterprise KPIs, regulatory reporting, and advanced decision-making.

Design Assurance & Architecture Governance

• Represent the enterprise at Architecture Review Boards, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and guardrails.
• Approve solution architectures for major initiatives, ensuring alignment with target state and transformation roadmap.
• Ensure non-functional requirements (security, resilience, performance, auditability) are consistently applied across all domains.
• Maintain traceability between business capabilities, processes, applications, and technology platforms.
• Cloud, Security & Compliance
• Ensure enterprise solutions comply with Cloud Strategy, Information Security, and Data Protection policies.
• Govern deployment models, hosting strategies, and resilience architectures across corporate systems.
• Embed enterprise security controls (e.g. identity, segregation of duties, access certification, audit logging, encryption) into all designs.
• Ensure regulatory and audit requirements are addressed consistently across the enterprise landscape.

AI, Automation & Digital Enablement

• Govern the use of AI, automation, and advanced analytics across corporate platforms in line with enterprise AI strategy.
• Ensure AI-enabled capabilities deliver measurable value while meeting accuracy, control, ethical, and compliance requirements.
• Promote reuse of AI and automation patterns across domains to avoid duplication and unmanaged risk.

If you are interested, please submit your CV or send it to oracleteam@next-ventures.com