Fractional Enterprise Architect

Strategic architecture leadership to design, rationalise and govern your digital future—on demand.

Designed for teams who…

You are leading a mid-market organisation or launching a transformation initiative without the structural oversight of a dedicated Enterprise Architecture function. Your technology landscape may be fragmented, costly or slowing down innovation. You need high-level strategic guidance to align IT decisions with business goals, but you cannot justify or find a full-time Chief Architect.

Perhaps you are navigating a merger on disconnected systems, planning a significant cloud migration or preparing your data foundations for AI. Technical debt is mounting, and your delivery teams lack the guardrails to build consistently. You require an experienced leader to step in immediately, make sense of the complexity and design a future-state architecture that enables scale rather than inhibiting it.

Problem → Outcome

A unified digital blueprint and actionable roadmap that aligns technology investment directly with business strategy.

Key Outcomes

  • Strategic clarity and alignment: Bridge the gap between executive vision and technical execution with a clear digital blueprint, ensuring every technology investment drives measurable business value.
  • Reduced complexity and cost: Identify and retire redundant applications or shadow IT, streamlining your portfolio to free up budget for innovation and AI readiness.
  • Accelerated decision making: Establish practical governance frameworks and architectural principles that empower delivery teams to move faster with confidence and consistency.
  • Actionable transformation roadmap: Move beyond high-level strategy with a phased, execution-ready plan that prioritises high-value initiatives and mitigates delivery risk.

How the engagement works

Whats Included

This engagement delivers the structural foundations for a scalable, efficient technology estate:

  • Current-state assessment and digital capability mapping
  • Application portfolio analysis and rationalisation recommendations
  • Target state architecture design aligned to business goals
  • Strategic roadmap development (people, process, data and technology)
  • Establishment of EA principles, standards and decision-rights
  • Governance operating model design
  • Executive workshops to align business and IT stakeholders
  • Guidance on tooling and platform consolidation

Engagement Model

We embed experienced architecture leadership into your team through three focused phases:

Phase 1: Blueprint & Rationalise

We conduct a rapid assessment of your business capabilities, current systems and data landscape. We identify redundancy, risks and disconnects, delivering a clear view of your "as-is" state and immediate rationalisation opportunities.

Phase 2: Target State Design

Working closely with your leadership, we define the "to-be" architecture. We design the future-state technology, data and integration (API) layers required to support your strategic objectives and AI ambitions.

Phase 3: Operationalise & Roadmap

We translate the design into a pragmatic, phased implementation roadmap. We establish the governance forums and architectural principles required to sustain alignment long after our engagement concludes.

Estimated Time

8–16 week engagement, delivered 1–2 days per week.
We provide executive-level architecture leadership that is practical, business-focused and operational immediately—without the full-time overhead.

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