Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities

Architecture & Blueprint Development

- Assess and document, in detail, the current-state architecture across business, application, data, integration, and technology domains

- Define, in detail, a future-state enterprise architecture that leverages digital platforms, software services, cloud, data, and automation capabilities

- Develop a target architecture blueprint, including:

- Architecture principles and guardrails

- Logical and high-level physical architecture views (L1, L2 and L3 details)

- Key platforms, capabilities, and integration patterns

Transition & Roadmap Definition

- Produce a clear transition roadmap from current to future state, including:

- Phased migration approach

- Dependencies, risks, and constraints

- Quick wins vs. strategic initiatives

- Identify architectural building blocks required to enable digital transformation

Business-Technology Alignment

- Translate business strategy and digital objectives into actionable architectural designs

- Engage senior business and IT stakeholders to validate assumptions and priorities

- Ensure architectural recommendations balance value, risk, cost, and delivery feasibility

Governance & Decision Support

- Provide architectural guidance to ongoing initiatives to ensure alignment with the target state

- Support investment and solution decisions with clear architectural rationale

- Define architecture standards, patterns, and reference models where needed

Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment

- Communicate complex architectural concepts in clear, executive-friendly language facilitate architecture workshops and working sessions where appropriate

- Produce high-quality architecture artefacts suitable for executive, business, and delivery audiences

- Get alignment with Business stakeholders and Tech stakeholders (e.g. Senior Software Lead) on the architecture, blueprint and plan

Required

- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or large-scale solution architecture

- Proven track record delivering enterprise architecture blueprints in transformation programs

- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments

- Strong background in digital, software-driven, and platform-based architectures

- Digital and software architectures including:

- Cloud and hybrid platforms

- API and integration architectures

- Data and analytics platforms

- Modern application architectures (microservices, domain driven, event based etc)