Enterprise Architect

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Enterprise Architecture (EA) provides guidance and support in shaping a business-aligned digital ecosystem, fostering collaboration between business and technology functions to enable the organisation’s strategy.

EA emphasises the importance of data-driven decision-making, ensuring that strategic and operational choices are informed by reliable data and insights.

Rather than prescribing rigid structures, EA encourages a shared understanding and flexible integration of business, information, application, data, and technology architecture, supporting innovation and adaptability as the digital landscape evolves.

What you'll do

• Define and evolve enterprise architecture across business, data, application, and technology domains.
• Translate strategy into architectural roadmaps, enablers, and guardrails.
• Establish and govern enterprise principles, patterns, and standards.
• Guide teams to ensure designs align with target architecture.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, technical debt, and dependencies.
• Provide architectural input to investment planning and governance.
• Embed security, privacy, resilience, performance, and cost considerations into designs.
• Focus relentlessly on reducing complexity and accelerate delivery.
• Surface and help resolve cross-organizational dependencies early.
• Frame options and trade-offs to enable timely decisions.
• Balance delivery needs with long-term architectural integrity.
• Communicate complex topics clearly to diverse audiences.
• Apply economic thinking to recommendations and decisions.
• Foster transparency through documentation, knowledge sharing, and architectural thinking.
• Build trusted relationships with business and technology leaders.
• Mentor architects and elevate the architecture practice.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated experience developing target states and transition roadmaps for complex ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of enterprise capabilities, business architecture, and value streams.
• Proficiency in reference architectures and patterns for integration, data, security, and cloud-native platforms.
• Practical knowledge of identity and access management, cybersecurity, data privacy, and compliance.
• Hands-on familiarity with distributed systems, scalability, operability, and reliability engineering concerns.
• Experience applying fit-for-purpose governance to create guardrails without stifling delivery.
• Ability to deliver clear, communicated enterprise guidance and principles.
• Track record of establishing governed standards and patterns adopted by delivery teams.
• Experience reducing duplication and technical debt through reuse and rationalization.
• Proven ability to improve time-to-value and risk posture via aligned designs and roadmaps.

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