ICT10034 - Solutions & Information Architet

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Information Technology

Employing Company:
Balfour Beatty

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Solutions & Information Architet
Balfour Beatty
HPC

Permanent

Role

Purpose:

The Solution & Information Architect is responsible for defining, governing and assuring enterprise technology, data and information architectures across MEH Alliance.

The role provides architectural leadership for business applications, data platforms, integrations, cloud services, Microsoft technologies and digital solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements and long-term strategic goals.

Working across Digital, Business Operations and Project Delivery teams, the Solution & Information Architect translates business requirements into scalable, secure and supportable solutions while establishing architectural standards, information models, integration patterns and governance processes.

The role plays a key part in shaping the future digital landscape of the organisation, ensuring technology solutions, business systems and enterprise data assets are designed and managed as strategic business capabilities

Further Opportunities

• Define the future-state enterprise architecture for MEH Alliance.
• Establish Information Architecture and Data Governance standards across the business.
• Influence strategic digital transformation initiatives.
• Drive innovation through Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, AI and modern data platforms.
• Act as the technical design authority for enterprise solutions and integrations.

Accountabilities

Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards and roadmaps.
• Define future-state architecture aligned to business strategy and operational objectives.
• Produce high-level designs (HLDs) and low-level designs (LLDs) for enterprise solutions.
• Ensure all technology investments align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Support creation of digital transformation and technology roadmaps.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic adoption opportunities.
• Produce high-level designs (HLDs) and low-level designs (LLDs) for enterprise solutions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable technical solutions.
• Provide architecture guidance across cloud, infrastructure, business applications, data platforms and integration services.
• Ensure solutions deliver business value whilst meeting performance, security and operational requirements.
• Define and maintain enterprise information architecture and information management standards.
• Establish business information models, metadata standards and information life cycles.
• Develop data domain ownership and stewardship frameworks.
• Support enterprise data governance initiatives and master data management practices.
• Ensure information assets are structured, governed and accessible in accordance with business and regulatory requirements.
• Define data architecture patterns supporting reporting, analytics and operational systems.
• Govern integration standards across enterprise applications and platforms.
• Support architecture decisions involving Azure Data Services, Databricks, SQL platforms and enterprise integrations.
• Ensure scalable and resilient data movement, ingestion and transformation processes are established.

Architecture Governance & Assurance

• Operate and support Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes.
• Review supplier designs and technical deliverables.
• Ensure solutions comply with cybersecurity, regulatory and organisational standards.
• Conduct architecture assessments and manage technical debt considerations.
• Maintain architecture repositories, standards and documentation.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business stakeholders, project teams and technology suppliers.
• Provide technical leadership across programmes and projects.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable technical solutions.
• Provide architecture guidance across cloud, infrastructure, business applications, data platforms and integration…