Enterprise Architect

The Role:

We are seeking an established Enterprise Architect to bring structure, coherence and strategic alignment across Technology and Digital functions.

This is not a theoretical architecture role. It requires someone who can translate strategy into executable roadmaps, introduce pragmatic governance, and influence engineering and product teams at senior level.

You will operate at the intersection of business strategy, architecture design and delivery execution - ensuring that architectural decisions enable long-term objectives rather than short-term technical preference.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment-

• Interpret organisational strategy and translate it into clear enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Ensure business, data and technology architectures align and reinforce one another.
• Bring clarity to complex environments with multiple concurrent initiatives.

Architectural Governance-

• Establish and lead effective architecture governance forums.
• Oversee engineering and design decisions to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Introduce structure without slowing delivery momentum.
• Challenge technical decisions where they conflict with strategic direction.

Stakeholder Engagement-

• Engage senior leadership to articulate the why behind architectural direction.
• Build credibility with engineering, product and delivery teams.
• Drive alignment across diverse stakeholders with competing priorities.

Road mapping & Execution-

• Develop multi-year architecture roadmaps.
• Connect strategic ambition to practical implementation steps.
• Ensure architectural principles are adopted and Embedded across teams.

Team & Function Development-

• Contribute to succession planning and capability development.
• Mentor architects or senior technical contributors where appropriate.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning within the architecture function.

Experience Required-

• Significant experience operating as an Enterprise Architect in complex organisations.
• Proven track record of running architectural governance and design authority forums.
• Experience influencing and overseeing engineering teams in high-delivery environments.
• Demonstrable experience translating strategy into executable roadmaps.
• Exposure to business architecture and/or data architecture.
• Comfortable operating at senior leadership level.
• Evidence of continuous professional development and intellectual curiosity.

Personal Attributes-

• Technically credible, but not dogmatic.
• Structured and methodical.
• Comfortable with constructive challenge and healthy conflict.
• Strong communicator and storyteller.
• Pragmatic decision-maker.
• Ambitious and motivated by growth and succession opportunity.