Up to ten days a month, more if the programme needs it, reporting to your project lead. The architecture decisions get made, documented, and defended.
Most programmes that fail technically did not lack engineers. They lacked someone accountable for the shape of the system.
Decisions about system boundaries, data ownership, integration patterns, failure behaviour, and sequencing get made either deliberately by one accountable person or accidentally by whoever picks up the ticket. The second way is cheaper for about four months.
Most partner firms cannot justify a full-time enterprise architect, and most clients will not fund one. But a programme touching six systems needs the role for the duration, not forever. That is the engagement.
Commitment
Up to ten days per month, and more if the programme needs it. Scaled to the phase - heavier during design and integration, lighter during steady build.
Reporting line
Reports to your project lead. We are inside your delivery structure, not a parallel authority alongside it.
Scope of authority
Architecture decisions, technical standards, and integration design within the boundaries you set. You retain commercial and client authority throughout.
Branding
Under your brand if requested, on your domain and in your tools, exactly as with our delivery work.
Duration
The length of the programme or phase. The role is meant to end, with the decisions documented and owned by your team.
System boundaries, data ownership, integration patterns, and the sequence in which things become true. Documented in a form your team and your client's team can both read, and kept current as reality intervenes.
The questions that quietly stall a sprint - which system owns this record, what happens when that call fails, do we sync or stream - get answered by someone with the authority and the experience to answer them, in hours rather than at the next steering meeting.
Non-functional requirements, error handling, observability, security and data-protection expectations, testing and release standards. Written as standards the team can apply, not principles nobody references twice.
Design and code review at the architecturally significant points, so drift is caught while it is still cheap to correct.
Where you want it, we sit in client architecture reviews, security reviews, and vendor conversations as part of your team - and translate between engineering detail and executive consequence.
The engagement is designed to end. Decisions, rationale, and standards are documented and transferred to whoever owns them next.
Roughly thirty years of enterprise systems, in categories where failure is expensive.
Our founder, Jayant Chaudhary, spent close to three decades in enterprise technology at American Express, AT&T, BellSouth, Delta Technology, Travel Syndication Technology, and Flamenco Networks - payments, travel, and telecom, where volume and regulation set the standard. eProxim has been engineering integration since 1997 across payments, travel, telecom, billing, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing.
That background is also why this often arrives alongside a rescue: the programmes most in need of architecture leadership are usually the ones already in trouble.
The role is to make the decisions nobody has been empowered to make, and then to leave.
A programme larger than usual
The client has bought something touching six systems and three vendors, and the shape of it needs to be owned by one person for the duration.
A client demanding architecture rigour
Enterprise procurement or a security review expects named architecture ownership, documented decisions, and defensible non-functional requirements.
A gap in your own leadership
Your architect has left, is on leave, or is committed elsewhere, and a programme cannot wait for a hire to complete.
A rescue that needs a spine
Following a deep dive, the fastest route back is usually one accountable architect making decisions the previous arrangement avoided.
If a programme needs an architect for six months, it should have one for six months.
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