Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Location: Yorkshire (Flexible, Hybrid Working)
Salary: Competitive
Package Includes: 42 Days Holiday and 20% Pension!
Employment Type: Permanent | Full-Time
Start Date: ASAP | Interviewing Now
This is a high-impact Enterprise Architecture role within a large, complex organisation undertaking significant transformation across its research and innovation capabilities.
You will operate at the heart of strategy, working directly with senior leadership to shape how technology enables cutting-edge research. While aligned to the research domain, this role has enterprise-wide influence, contributing to broader business and IT strategy across multiple functions.
This is not a hands-on technical design role. Instead, you will act as a strategic advisor, helping senior stakeholders make informed decisions, navigating complex regulatory environments, and ensuring technology investment aligns with long-term organisational goals.
What You'll Be Doing
Shaping and evolving enterprise-wide IT and business architecture strategy, aligning immediate change demand with long-term transformation objectives
Developing and maintaining business capability models to articulate current and future state architecture
Identifying capability gaps, duplication and optimisation opportunities, particularly within research and innovation services
Defining high-level 'As-Is' and 'To-Be' architectures and supporting the creation of business and technology roadmaps
Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, including external partners, translating complex technical concepts into clear, business-focused outcomes
Supporting major programmes by providing architectural direction, ensuring solutions are aligned to enterprise strategy and deliver measurable value
Leading and coordinating architectural activity across multiple initiatives, ensuring consistency, quality and alignment
Supporting the development and maturity of the organisation's Enterprise Architecture function, standards and governance
Working closely with leadership across IT and research, including a dotted-line relationship into Research IT, to ensure alignment of priorities and delivery
Contributing to business case development and ensuring architecture underpins strategic decision-making
Key Focus Areas
Research and innovation platforms, services and partnerships
Navigating complex stakeholder environments, including collaboration with healthcare and research organisations
Supporting secure and compliant research environments, including frameworks and regulatory considerations
Enabling effective management of research systems, contracts, and funding-related processes
Driving business process understanding and re-engineering across research capabilities
What They're Looking For
Essential Experience
Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect or in a senior architecture role within a large, complex organisation
Strong track record of developing enterprise strategies, capability models and architectural roadmaps
Experience working across multiple architecture domains, including business, application and technology
Ability to operate at a strategic level, engaging senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making
Demonstrable experience translating business needs into technology-enabled outcomes, and vice versa
Strong understanding of end-to-end delivery, from early concept through to implementation and business change
Experience leading or coordinating architectural teams, often in matrix or non-line management structures
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences
Highly Desirable
Exposure to research, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments
Understanding of secure and compliant research practices and associated standards (e.g. ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, NHS DSP Toolkit, or similar)
Awareness of high-performance or research computing environments, such as GPU/CPU architectures, high-performance storage or advanced networking (beneficial but not essential)
Familiarity with research-related software ecosystems or AI/ML tooling (e.g. PyTorch or similar), at a conceptual level
Experience working with external partner organisations where stakeholder engagement is commercially or strategically sensitive
What Will Make You Stand Out
A well-rounded architectural background, rather than deep specialism in a single domain
The ability to navigate ambiguity and complex governance or regulatory approval processes
A natural influencer who can build credibility quickly and establish strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups
A focus on outcomes and business value, rather than getting drawn too deeply into technical detail
A passion for helping organisations mature their Enterprise Architecture capability and embed best practice
Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to shape how a major organisation enables research and innovation through technology, influencing strategic direction while working with some of the most complex and interesting challenges in the sector.
You'll be empowered to operate at a senior level, drive real change, and help build a more mature, effective Enterprise Architecture function.
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