Introduction
Together, were working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.
Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark. You might be working with the technology and data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. Its a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects youll both take pride in and feel passionate about.
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Job Description
As an Enterprise Architect, you will define and govern the enterprise architecture framework across business, data, applications and technology domains. Acting as the bridge between strategy and delivery, you will ensure that major programmes and investment decisions are aligned to organisational priorities, regulatory requirements and operational resilience.
You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Digital, Operations, Commercial and Finance to translate strategic objectives into clear architectural roadmaps. Leading architecture governance and assurance, you will guide domain and solution architects, promote best practice and ensure solutions are secure, compliant and built for long-term sustainability.
This is a senior, high-visibility role influencing how technology enables growth, efficiency and resilience across the airport ecosystem.
Your role will involve
Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, principles and reference models across business, information, applications and technology domains
Ensure architectural alignment with the airports strategic goals, transformation roadmap and regulatory requirements
Lead enterprise architecture governance, including review boards and assurance activities for major programmes and initiatives
Collaborate with business leaders to translate strategic objectives into architecture roadmaps and solution blueprints
Advise on technology investment decisions and solution evaluations from an enterprise architecture perspective
Ensure integration of sustainability, cybersecurity and resilience principles into architecture decisions
These Skills Are Essential
Experience as an Enterprise Architect working across multiple architecture domains, preferably in a regulated environment with complex interconnected operations, safety and security constraints, and a high customer impact
Enterprise Architecture modelling, using Archimate 3.x, preferably using BizzDesign. This will include capturing the current architecture baseline across business, data, applications, and technology, as well as modelling target and interim states to support portfolio and investment planning.
Demonstrable experience of transformation in one or more of the following: Transport/aviation sector systems, customer-centric digital platforms, enterprise integration or critical national infrastructure.
Experience of managing architecture governance and assurance, ensuring design decisions align with strategy, best practice, and implement appropriate risk treatment.
Engaging senior stakeholders, communicating effectively, presenting outcomes and rational without the need for stakeholders to understand technical details.
Demonstrable experience of working with Agile delivery at scale (e.g. experience with Scaled Agile Framework or equivalent)
About Us
Theres something so special about working at the worlds most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.
Every day, youll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.
It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, were working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.
Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because theres no place like Heathrow.
Our rewards
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, well support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, well provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here youll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.
Working Location
Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. Youll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.
Sustainable Travel to work
Heathrows Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.
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