Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Location: Cheltenham, UK

Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, On-site gym, Free on-site parking, Salary sacrifice schemes for Technology and Electric Vehicles.

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to work at the intersection of business strategy and technological capability, ensuring that every system, application, and infrastructure and data component works together towards common objectives.

This role has a global remit across 3 distinct business units, as well as a Group entity, and is accountable for working with architectural peers to set the strategic direction of technology. The successful applicant will be UK based and will have 2 Solution Architects as direct reports, to work on detailed designs and proposals. This role will play a key part in governance forums and engaging business and technical colleagues across the global Group

Architecture Strategy & Design:

• Develop the business architecture to understand the business capabilities, processes and their alignment to the future strategy.
• Identify the gaps and strategic plans and build this into a multi year roadmap.
• Define enterprise data architecture and promote data as a strategic asset. Model business, information, application, and technology domains.

Business Engagement:

• Regular business engagement to understand business pain points, opportunities and future objectives to ensure IT alignment and the delivery of business outcomes. Design and maintain a prioritisation framework that evaluates business projects against key criteria, ensuring IT initiatives are ranked and prioritised based on their business value.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Assess the current landscape and create and present visuals (heatmaps etc.) to senior leaders that represent key dimensions like costs, risk, application duplication for strategic decision making.

Technology Leadership & Governance:

• Create and maintain a view of the application estate to identify opportunities to reduce costs, reduce risks and optimise investments.
• Identify and assess risks within the IT environment and propose solutions to mitigate.
• Define and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, principles and roadmaps.
• Provide architectural oversight for solution designs and IT initiatives to ensure architectural compliance and maintain compliance with regulatory, security, and operational requirements.
• Facilitate the Technical Design Authority to ensure solutions and procured technology meet internal standards and best practices.
• Ensure interoperability, scalability, security, and resilience across systems.

Innovation:

• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption for business value.
• Develop and gain approval for technology strategies to set the direction and plan to deliver new capabilities e.g. cyber security, data, integration etc.

• 10+ years in IT, with at least 5 years in enterprise, solution or domain architecture roles within large, complex organisations
• A proven track record of driving business-aligned technology strategies and delivering measurable impact
• Expertise in business, application, data, infrastructure domains
• Understanding of cloud platforms, emerging technologies, and digital transformation trends
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF)
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture tools e.g. LeanIX, Hopex, Abacus
• Knowledge of modelling frameworks e.g. Archimate
• Vendor and technology evaluation expertise
• Risk management and cybersecurity knowledge
• Change management and stakeholder alignment capabilities

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Demonstrate strategic thinking and ability to align technology initiatives with business objectives
• Have strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical seniors
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate complex systems and identify opportunities
• Leadership and influencing skills to guide cross-functional teams
• Ability to create and interpret architectural models, diagrams, and roadmaps
• Skills in portfolio management and technology rationalisation
• Financial experience to assess cost, value, and ROI of technology investments
• Continuous learning mindset to keep up with evolving technology landscape

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days' paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts' portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.