Enterprise Architect – Digital Backbone & Digital Experience

Overview

As Domain Architect, you will define the target state and multi-year roadmap for Digital Backbone and Digital Employee Experience, shaping investment and architecture to securely scale platforms. You will align with enterprise governance, work with cross-functional leaders, and ensure delivery stays true to the designed architecture. This role emphasizes strategy, investment planning, and architectural excellence over delivery, with a focus on secure, resilient, and affordable foundations. You will be at the center of architectural decisions that impact the company’s technology future and capability maturity.

Pay / Benefits

• company-funded benefits package
• generous leave and up to 12 flexi-days
• award-winning pension with up to 15% employer contribution
• mental health support and wellbeing networks
• bonus scheme for management level and below
• access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera/LinkedIn Learning

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain target architecture across Digital Workplace, Network/Hosting, Cloud/Hybrid, and Platform Engineering with views, standards, and reference patterns
• Maintain baseline of current estate and ensure landscape models reflect reality
• Contribute to cross-cutting standards and represent domains in governance
• Synthesize risk signals, demand, and market direction into domain drivers and roadmap
• Own rolling three-year roadmap and five-year outlook, including change sequencing
• Convert roadmap into investment items with cost/benefit and delivery confidence
• Support business cases and portfolio submissions with architecture content
• Act as standing design authority for both domains and approve high-level designs and patterns
• Mentor and support Solution/Technical Architects; foster a domain architecture community

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in architecture function, ideally in regulated/defence contexts
• Ability to own multi-year roadmaps and secure funding
• Proficiency in architecture methods and artefacts (TOGAF, ArchiMate)
• Evidence-informed judgement using risk, demand, and lifecycle data
• Experience with design authority or equivalent assurance work
• Strong influence and coaching skills across engineers and directors
• Knowledge of hybrid/multi-cloud environments and on-premises footprints
• Understanding of security by design, affordability, and governance

• Collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences
• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Azure

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