Enterprise Architect

About the Role

Balfour Beatty is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role in driving digital transformation across our Connect Plus Services M25 Joint Venture – Europe’s busiest motorway network.

This position will be central to delivering strategic change programmes and developing innovative solutions to meet evolving business needs.

You will be accountable for the IT architecture underpinning the M25 systems and will lead the development of a comprehensive roadmap, aligned with established architectural principles, to enhance and future‑proof the organisation’s technology landscape.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering enterprise architecture processes and principles.
• Developing an enterprise architecture methodology, including key artefacts.
• Capturing architecture decisions, outlining rationale and proposing mitigation plans.
• Providing regular progress updates and status reports to the Head of Business Transformation and Business Planning Director.
• Running and managing the Technical Design Authority (TDA) to review proposed technical solutions, ensuring effective coding and embedded security.
• Supporting governance forums such as the Change Board, and contributing regularly to the Portfolio Review Meeting.
• Identifying, reporting, and tracking architecture risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where required.

Who We’re Looking For

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience running enterprise architecture for small to medium‑sized organisations.
• Strong understanding of established architectural frameworks.
• Experience supporting delivery of technical solutions and ensuring alignment with business requirements.
• Ability to present updates at complex governance forums.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to gain senior‑level buy‑in.
• Experience developing organisation‑wide enterprise architecture strategies and communicating associated roadmaps.
• Ability to shape enterprise architecture initiatives and activities.
• Understanding of the M25 business, digital technologies, and their applications.
• Experience engaging third‑party suppliers to understand their technical solutions and development roadmaps.
• Ability to identify and track interdependencies.
• Management of technical debt.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
• Technical proficiency in:
  • Data platforms (e.g., AWS Redshift, MS SQL Server)
  • BI tools (e.g., Power BI)
  • Scripting languages (SQL, Python/R)

Desirable

• Information Security experience, with expertise in NIS (Network and Information Systems) regulations and ISO 27001 accreditation.

 

Behavioural Competencies 

• Inspiring: Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.  
• Energising:  Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards   and continuous improvement. 
• Challenging: seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.  
• Challengeable: Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement. 
• Influencing: Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals. 

Why Work for Us?

At Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be part of a world-class team maintaining and operating the M25, Europe’s busiest motorway. As a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, we play a vital role in keeping millions of journeys moving safely and efficiently.

A Career Like No Other

Working on the M25 offers unrivalled experience, challenges, and opportunities that no other highways project can provide. You’ll be exposed to cutting-edge technology, large-scale infrastructure, and complex engineering solutions, making every day dynamic and rewarding.

Long-Term Stability & Growth

With 15+ years remaining on this project, we offer career stability, professional development, and progression opportunities. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or take the next step in your career, we invest in your growth.

A Supportive & Inclusive Team

At CPS, your contributions matter. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment where safety, innovation, and teamwork drive everything we do.

 

CPS is dedicated to reducing its carbon footprint through sustainable practices and innovative solutions.

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:  https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

 

Location:

This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we offer flexible working where you will typically be working from your base CPS office, Leatherhead, Dartford or South Mimms up to three days per week and two days from home.

Note to all internal CPS employees:

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk