Principal Architect T&S Data & Analytics

Overview

In this role you lead the data and analytics architecture for Trading & Supply, shaping a scalable, secure, AI-ready data ecosystem. You translate strategy into target architectures and guardrails, guiding cross-domain delivery and enterprise transformation. You partner with business, data, and tech teams to reduce duplication and enable value-driven decisions. You’ll champion data-first design and responsible AI across the enterprise, unlocking scalable, trusted insights.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working hours
• remote/mobile working
• competitive starting salary
• annual performance-related pay increase
• paid parental leave including for non-birthing parents
• diverse and inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership aligning business strategy with technology investments
• Shape enterprise architecture direction across multiple domains and ensure coherence, resilience, security, and scalability
• Translate strategy into target architecture, roadmaps, standards, and guardrails across data, integration, cloud, and security
• Ensure cross-domain coherence and resolve conflicts between domain strategies and enterprise targets
• Act as enterprise decision authority for major architectural choices and trade-offs
• Represent architecture in executive governance and advise CIOs and senior stakeholders
• Drive adoption of standards, reusable patterns, and enterprise technology services to reduce duplication and debt
• Lead and develop a multi-layer architecture organisation and capability development
• Set strategic technology direction including lifecycle, simplification, and reuse priorities
• Lead data-first architectural transformation, AI-enabled practices, and AI guardrails
• Embed responsible AI considerations, including data quality, security, privacy, explainability, and regulatory compliance
• Influence technology strategy and transformation using market, regulatory, and business insight

Key requirements

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in IT, CS, Engineering or related field
• Extensive IT experience with senior architecture leadership roles
• Experience in large-scale, multi-domain technology environments
• Proven success in enterprise-wide architecture transformation and strategic initiatives
• Knowledge of trading domain; commodity trading knowledge preferred

• Strategic leadership
• Executive communication and influencing
• Cross-domain collaboration
• Enterprise architecture and governance
• Data platform architecture and integration
• AI/ML platform concepts and governance

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