Enterprise Architect Job Leeds area,England UK,IT/Tech

Develop and maintain enterprise architecture roadmaps aligned to the strategic objectives of the Insurance, Pensions &Investments business.
Define target-state architecture models that support business growth, modernization, efficiency, resilience, and regulatory compliance.
Ensure alignment between business capabilities, technology investments, and enterprise technology strategies.
Support the evolution of architectural standards, principles, governance frameworks, and reference architectures.
Review, challenge, and assure solution designs across multiple programmes and portfolios.
Provide architectural guidance during discovery, feasibility, design, and delivery phases.
Produce and review architecture artefacts including:
Solution Designs
Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Architecture Models
Capability Maps
Roadmaps
Target-State Blueprints
Define hybrid cloud and hosting architectures supporting scalable and resilient solutions.
Guide cloud adoption and modernization initiatives across public, private, and hybrid environments.
Support infrastructure transformation programmes across compute, networking, storage, and platform services.
Ensure alignment with enterprise cloud standards and security controls.
Define architecture patterns supporting modern digital platforms and enterprise applications.
Lead the adoption of API-first, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
Identify opportunities to simplify and rationalize legacy technology estates.
Drive reuse of enterprise integration services and common technology platforms.
Support architecture decisions involving data platforms, governance, analytics, and information management.
Ensure appropriate consideration of data models, lineage, governance, privacy, and regulatory controls.
Collaborate with Data Architecture teams to promote consistency and strategic alignment.

Non-Functional Architecture

Security
Availability
Resilience
Performance
Scalability
Observability
Maintainability
Ensure solutions meet regulatory, operational, and cyber-security requirements.

Governance & Assurance

Participate in architecture governance and design authority forums.
Assess architectural risks, dependencies, technical debt, and compliance issues.
Provide recommendations and mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and control frameworks.

Stakeholder Engagement

Build strong relationships with engineering, platform, product, security, and delivery teams.
Influence technology direction across multiple programmes and initiatives.
Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Support senior leadership in technology decision-making and investment planning.
Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect, Lead Architect, Principal Architect, or Senior Solution Architect within alarge-scale enterprise environment.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and practices.
Experience creating architecture roadmaps, transformation strategies, and target-state architectures.

Technical Architecture

Security Architecture
Experience designing and governing cloud-native and hybrid-cloud architectures.
Strong understanding of platforms such as:
AWS
Experience with container-based and platform engineering approaches.

Integration & APIs

API-led architectures
Event-driven architectures
Service-oriented architectures
Microservices
Messaging technologies
Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices.
Experience working within Agile, Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, and Product-centric delivery models.
Ability to engage directly with engineering teams to guide architecture implementation.

Security & Resilience

Knowledge of:
Identity and Access Management
Operational resilience
Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity
Regulatory and risk controls
Experience producing and reviewing:
HLDs and LLDs
Technical Standards
Experience participating in governance and architecture review boards.
Financial Services, Insurance, Pensions, Wealth Management or Investment industry experience.
Knowledge of UK financial regulatory environments.
Familiarity with emerging technologies including AI, automation, platform engineering and cloud modernization.
Experience with architecture modelling tools such as:
LeanIX
Sparx EA
Archi Mate
Visio

Personal Attributes

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision and short-term delivery priorities.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity.
Strong communication and presentation capabilities.
Pragmatic decision-maker with sound engineering judgement.
Collaborative and relationship-driven approach.

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