Enterprise Architect

High Blantyre, Scotland G72, United Kingdom

Full-time Permanent Senior

Posted 07 Aug 2026

Location:Hamilton International Technology Park, office-based, 5 days a week

Reports to: Lead Architect

About Data Vita

Data Vita is a next-generation cloud and infrastructure company operating from Tier III-certified data centres in Scotland. We work at the bleeding edge of AI adoption, automation, and how these technologies can be integrated into complex legacy environments to deliver genuine transformation.

Data Vita is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to own the architectural relationship between Data Vita and one of our largest and most strategically important public sector customers.

This is a senior, customer-facing role dedicated to the architecture and technical leadership of the customer’s environment. The customer runs a largely dedicated infrastructure estate, with a number of managed services hosted on Data Vita’s platforms. You will take the environment on, stabilise and improve it, resolve inherited issues, and lead its ongoing modernisation and transformation. On an enduring basis, you will act as the architectural bridge between the customer and Data Vita, representing Data Vita within the customer’s own governance, including their Joint Architecture Board, Change Advisory Board, Enterprise Design Authority, and SIAM and related assurance forums.

The role exists to hold both sides together. You will maintain a clear architectural view of the customer’s largely dedicated estate, ensure the managed services Data Vita provides integrate cleanly with it, and translate Data Vita’s standards, constraints, and direction into terms the customer can govern against while representing the customer’s needs back into Data Vita. You will be the point of architectural authority and continuity for the account, reducing late escalation and protecting both service quality and commercial outcomes.

This role is dedicated primarily to the customer’s account. You may contribute to other Data Vita projects as required, particularly once you are established in the role and the account has moved into its business-as-usual phase.

You will work closely with the Lead Architect, the wider Architecture function, delivery and operations teams, and Sales, as well as senior technical and governance stakeholders within the customer organisation.

This is a permanent, full-time position based on-site at Data Vita HQ in Hamilton. Travel to the customer’s premises and to Data Vita data centres may be required from time to time. This is a role that requires a high degree of autonomy, sound judgement, and the credibility to operate as a peer to senior architects and governance leads on the customer side.

Key Responsibilities

Owning the Customer Architectural Relationship

You will be the single, accountable architectural interface between Data Vita and the customer. This will typically involve:

• Representing Data Vita on the customer’s Joint Architecture Board, Change Advisory Board, and other design, assurance, and governance forums
• Providing architectural direction and technical authority for the account on a Day-2 basis
• Making and defending architectural decisions, and giving explicit, visible advice where standards, risk, and customer preference need to be balanced
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with senior technical and governance stakeholders

Owning the Architecture of the Environment

You will hold the architectural picture of an estate that is largely dedicated to the customer, with a number of managed services running on Data Vita’s platforms. This includes:

• Maintaining an accurate view of the customer’s enterprise, business, and application architecture and the infrastructure that supports it
• Ensuring the managed services Data Vita provides integrate cleanly and are designed,…