Description
Janes is seeking an Enterprise Architect to connect enterprise direction through to solution design and delivery. As the face of Architecture for Janes, you will be the senior architecture authority within Engineering, setting clear direction while working closely with teams to turn strategy into practical designs and deliverable outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the face of Architecture for Janes and be the senior architecture authority within Engineering.
- Chair architecture forums and ensure appropriate governance is in place to enable decision-making.
- Enable engineers and architects to make good decisions within clear guardrails, avoiding unnecessary bottlenecks while maintaining clear architecture direction.
- Bridge enterprise and solution architecture: maintain a coherent view of target direction and translate it into implementable designs, transition plans, and delivery choices.
- Oversee enterprise and solution architecture across the product technology domain, partnering with the Data and Software Architects, Principal Platform Engineer, and Engineering Managers.
- Engage day to day with stakeholders across Demand and Delivery, Engineering, Security, and Service, and build strong relationships with Product, Content, Sales, and Customer Success.
- Maintain and mature architecture artefacts and tooling, roadmaps, and decision records.
- Shape designs to facilitate initiatives and cross-team deliveries, making system boundaries, dependencies, and trade-offs clear.
- Ensure security, risk, and service considerations are addressed from the outset and throughout.
- Surface technical debt, architectural risks, and cross-team dependencies early; agree pragmatic mitigation and transition paths that protect delivery timelines.
- Connect architectural choices to business value and customer outcomes.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in enterprise and solution architecture covering complex data products and platforms.
- Strong software engineering and systems background, with credibility to work through architecture and design details with engineers.
- Experience leading architecture governance and forums that focus on decision-making and getting things done.
- Experience maturing architecture tooling and frameworks, with a good understanding of what level of detail works in practice.
- Experience across cloud-native and complex data platforms that consider security, risk, and service.
- Ability to influence stakeholders across Product, Commercial, Security, Service, and Engineering.
- Ability to bring clarity to complex topics, explaining options and consequences to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Willingness to roll your sleeves up when required to lead through challenges, whether setting direction, designing, unblocking delivery, or responding to incidents.
Benefits:
- 27 days of annual leave
- Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
- Leave-study/volunteer/reserve forces
- Pension plan (6% employer contribution)
- Private medical insurance – BUPA
- Maternity (100% of basic salary for the first 26 weeks followed by Statutory Maternity Pay)
- Paternity (100% of basic salary for 6 weeks)
- Life cover
- Access to LinkedIn Learning