Principal Enterprise Architect

We are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to shape and deliver enterprise architecture strategy at scale. As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will lead the development of enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architectures, and strategic roadmaps, ensuring business and technology investments deliver measurable value.

You will work closely with senior business, service, delivery, and technical stakeholders to understand and challenge needs, explain options and trade-offs, and build agreement on complex decisions. You will not operate only at a strategic distance: where work is high risk, business critical or blocked, you will get directly involved, manage architectural risks through to resolution, and remain accountable for the effect of your advice on live services, users, and business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the development and implementation of enterprise architecture strategy, principles, standards, patterns, and roadmaps aligned to departmental priorities and business needs.
• Taking ownership of the results and service impacts of architectural advice and decisions, including becoming directly involved in complex, high-risk or business-critical work to resolve issues and unblock delivery.
• Building trusted relationships with senior business, service, delivery and technical stakeholders; understanding and constructively challenging needs; agreeing priorities; and communicating complex options, trade-offs and decisions clearly.
• Identifying, communicating, and managing architectural risks through to resolution, balancing delivery pace with security, resilience, compliance, operational stability and value for money.
• Making clear where constraints in the technology offer limit what can be delivered, and managing the consequences for users, live services, operations, and wider business outcomes.

Benefits:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance