Enterprise Architect - Retail & Hospitality Technology Transformation

Enterprise Architect - Retail & Hospitality Technology Transformation

Leading UK entertainment group (European household name) undergoing a significant business and technology transformation.

This is a pivotal hire within a newly evolving architecture function, offering the opportunity to shape enterprise-wide strategy during a large-scale cloud and operating model transformation.

As Enterprise Architect, you’ll operate as a senior individual contributor, working across domains with tech leads and engaging closely with C-suite stakeholders.

This is a highly visible, commercially focused role—not hands‑on engineering but defining how technology enables the business to grow and compete.

The IT enterprise architect will develop and define our technology strategy. Working alongside our strategic vendors to set direction, drive innovation, stretch thinking and ensure we’re constantly benefit ting from the best technology across all areas of our business landscape, including corporate, head office and operations.

Reporting to the director of IT strategy and architecture, you will be responsible for the design and engineering principles associated with the delivery and operational health of our technology landscape, as well as the broader technology governance process.

• Assist leadership team and strategic partners in the setting of our technology strategy, architecture and engineering principles for our technology function - in collaboration with relevant specialist technical leads
• Facilitate business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner - driving our digital business strategies to balance innovation and growth
• Translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve our targeted business outcomes by leading the development of an implementation roadmap for enterprise architecture
• Drive innovation through active horizon‑scanning of emerging technologies and the business ecosystem for major disruptive technology and non‑technology trends (trendspotting) that affect our markets and business
• Lead analysis of our future‑state capabilities and future (and current) technology environment, to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive our business towards its targeted outcomes
• Support our technology partners in delivering change in line with our overall technology strategy of creating modular, cloud‑first solutions
• Develop and implement core technology governance frameworks for technologists across our business and its partners (including format, documentation approach and implementation strategy, as well as evolving the framework as necessary in line with advice from key business stakeholders and strategic partners)
• Own, build and maintain the enterprise roadmaps, such that it is easily communicated to partners and the wider technology functions, and in such a way that it can adapt to the changing commercial landscape
• Define repeatable patterns, tools and approaches for all teams - ensure that all solutions designed target our cloud‑first architecture
• Agree, document and publish architecture principles, tools and frameworks to ensure our technology is managed and nurtured as a series of value‑creating ecosystems
• Develop strong relationships and collaborative ways of working at all levels across internal and external stakeholders
• Provide and track the holistic view of our technology ecosystems and work with internal and external teams to evolve them as necessary

• An expert practitioner with experience of overseeing end‑to‑end application architecture, preferably in a similar multi‑site, omnichannel, enterprise‑scale business within the retail or hospitality sector
• Experience in cloud migration and application modernisation programmes
• Experience in agile ways of working, Dev Sec Ops , SRE and continuous delivery
• Comfortable defining migration patterns and green‑field architectures, and crucially where the two intersect
• Ability to identify software or technology opportunities and drive the introduction of new tools and processes across teams and…