Chief Enterprise Architect - Smart campus

DXC Technology is seeking a Chief Enterprise Architect to lead the end-to-end enterprise architecture for a major greenfield enterprise transformation programme.

Operating at Senior Manager level, you will chair the programme Design Authority and own the target architecture, principles, standards and roadmap across enterprise applications, data, integration, cloud, infrastructure, network, cybersecurity and smart campus technologies.

You will lead a multidisciplinary architecture team, resolve cross-domain design decisions and act as a trusted technical advisor to client executives. The role combines enterprise architectural leadership with hands‑on oversight of solution design, delivery assurance, vendor alignment and technical risk.

• Own the target enterprise architecture and transformation roadmap, aligning technology decisions with organisational objectives, customer requirements and programme outcomes.
• Define architectural principles, standards, reference patterns and solution blueprints across all technology domains.
• Direct end-to-end solution design across smart campus, applications, integration, data, cloud, on-premises infrastructure, network and security.
• Lead platform selection and build-versus-buy decisions, assessing business value, interoperability, scalability, cost and long-term maintainability.
• Ensure architectural coherence across multiple work streams and delivery partners.

• Chair the Design Authority and Architecture Review Board, providing authoritative direction and resolving cross-domain design decisions.
• Establish architecture review processes, approval criteria and controls for managing deviations from agreed standards.
• Own the governance of architecture deliverables, including solution blueprints, interface specifications and architecture decision records.
• Guide architects and business stakeholders in capturing, validating and governing requirements.
• Own programme-level architecture risks, technical issues and design dependencies, ensuring timely resolution and escalation.

• Oversee architecture across ERP, enterprise content management, CRM, IT service management and custom applications.
• Define cross-domain integration principles and ensure consistent interfaces, data flows and interoperability.
• Ensure application, data and integration designs support business processes and the wider target architecture.
• Provide architectural oversight for higher education environments, including the alignment of academic, administrative and campus services.

• Lead architectural integration across smart campus, building management systems and IoT solutions.
• Govern cloud and on-premises hosting architecture, including compute, storage, networking and cybersecurity.
• Embed security and data protection into architecture decisions throughout the programme.
• Assure non-functional requirements covering availability, performance, capacity, resilience, recoverability and maintainability.
• Validate hardware sizing and capacity assumptions against application workloads, concurrent users, growth forecasts and service requirements.

• Lead and mentor architects across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, network, security and smart campus work streams.
• Establish the architecture delivery cadence, priorities and milestones to meet programme timelines.
• Review designs and provide implementation direction to engineering teams and delivery partners.
• Work within agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models while maintaining…