Job title: Lead Enterprise Architect (Applications) FTC 12 months
Location: Royston or London Hub, UK
The Lead Enterprise Architect is accountable for shaping the global application strategy to support long-term transformation and enterprise-wide IT cost optimisation. This role leads the development of a global application roadmap, working in close collaboration with Solution Architects and Platform Leads, to ensure that individual platform roadmaps are strategically aligned to the global application vision. This alignment enables coherence across domains, maximises reuse and interoperability, and ensures that application investments deliver measurable business outcomes.
Note: This is a fixed-term contract role available for 12 months
Principal accountabilities
Strategic Leadership & Application Portfolio Management
* Lead the development and execution of a global application strategy and roadmap that aligns with Johnson Matthey's transformation objectives and enterprise-wide IT cost optimisation targets.
* Drive the application rationalisation strategy by applying structured portfolio assessment techniques such as TIME analysis (Tolerate, Invest, Migrate, Eliminate) to evaluate the value, relevance, and future fit of applications across the estate.
1. Maintain a comprehensive, portfolio-level vi...