Senior Enterprise Architect
Location: Hybrid role, occasional site travel.
Responsibilities
* Develop and maintain enterprise platform roadmaps for assigned domains, aligning technology direction with business priorities.
* Own and evolve assigned platforms within the enterprise reference architecture, maintaining platform information, lifecycle status, capability mapping and guardrails.
* Provide enterprise‑level architectural leadership on technology choices, emerging trends, AI adoption and platform strategy, helping teams assess build‑vs‑buy decisions.
* Support application portfolio rationalisation and lifecycle management, reducing duplication, complexity and technical debt while improving visibility of legacy platforms, decommission dependencies and transition risks.
* Work closely with pillar architecture teams, solution architects, engineering functions and business stakeholders to shape architecture early, build roadmap alignment and ensure decisions are evidence‑based.
* Contribute to architectural governance through enterprise forums, significance assessments, standards development, coaching architects across the community and raising architectural maturity.
Qualifications
* Strong experience in enterprise architecture, defining and embedding reference architectures, platform guardrails and technology roadmaps across a large, complex organisation.
* Demonstrated knowledge of application portfolio management, including lifecycle management, rationalisation, capability mapping and the use of architectural tooling such as LeanIX or ServiceNow APM.
* Proven ability to influence across a federated, product‑led environment, working with senior stakeholders, architects, engineering teams and business leaders.
* Commercial awareness and strong architectural judgement to assess build‑vs‑buy decisions, total cost of ownership, operational impacts, platform risk and strategic fit.
* Good understanding of cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), integration patterns, enterprise data considerations and emerging technologies including AI and their practical application within governance.
* Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and coaching skills, with credibility to guide others and represent enterprise architecture as a trusted strategic function.
Benefits
* Competitive salary and opportunities for growth.
* Competitive benefits package including pension, holiday allowance, flexible benefits and support for health and wellbeing.
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