Principal Enterprise Architect

Workplace:
London or Leeds, flexible - open to other locations - Hybrid

Contract:

Permanent

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Enterprise Architect to lead the development and implementation of enterprise-wide technology strategies that align with our organisation's overall strategic objectives. The successful candidate will have experience designing and implementing complex enterprise architectures, utilising both technical and business expertise to drive growth and transformation.

As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will be at the heart of our ambition to help transform and grow our business. This role is helping stakeholders to shape innovative solutions which deliver results. We are looking for an individual who has a proven track record of aligning target business vision and requirements with enterprise solutions by collaborating with wider stakeholders to identify the target state blueprints and architecture vision for the enterprise.

Someone who has deep knowledge of architectural standards, an effective governance approach, patterns for enterprise architecture with the ability to develop enterprise strategies and processes.

Our business operates across multiple territories and teams, and this role offers the opportunity to build experience and bring your wealth of technology

expertise to stakeholders in new and diverse projects, each with their own unique set of challenges.

The role requires excellent business and technology understanding, as well as experience in technology strategy and selection. We are seeking candidates who can evidence a broader consulting skill set. This role will be based out of the UK with flexible working arrangements. This role requires travel from time-to-time to multiple UK locations.

The primary objective of this role is to bring clarity, consistency, and decision making to a complex landscape by defining a target and transition architecture, aligning business processes, workflows, architecture and engineering, in order to drive simplification across systems and processes.

This role provides technology direction and governance, including defining transformation approaches (process-led or workflow-led), drive decision-making through impact assessments, and ensure consistent design standards and validation practices across teams. The aims are to develop a clear and agreed target and phased architecture, alignment across the Target Operating Model, a trusted architecture roadmap, providing the input into delivery with aligned ways of working, between SA, BA along with consistent decision-making

• Develop and maintain the organisation's enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives, and take a lead role in owning a dimension relating to a business domain.
• Contribute to an enterprise architecture strategy that enables value and growth across the business.
• Develop target state architectures and transition plans to achieve the organisation's strategic goals.
• Shape and document ITV’s Technology strategy and agree a realisable roadmap to deliver value little and often. Consolidate process plans, solution architecture plans, and capability plans into a single, trusted, and unified roadmap.

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including business capability models, technology reference models, solution architectures, and roadmaps with reusable architecture patterns for current and future projects
• Lead the development of business architecture blueprints and roadmaps that align with the organisation's overall strategic objectives.
  
  Define and communicate the target state architecture and interim states.
• Provide impact assessments to drive decision-making and provide oversight of solution design validation and integration guidance to teams.
• Ensure technical debt is understood, documented, and accepted by stakeholders. Lead Partner with Delivery leadership to execute legacy application retirement, directly supporting current and future business cases.
• Design and develop policies, standards, guidelines, roadmaps, and strategy that affect the selection, design, development, implementation, maintenance, and use of technology. Ensure compliance with industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and security standards and maintain architectural integrity across all delivery teams.
• Define high-level enterprise target states and integration patterns, collaborating with Domain Directors and/or Technical Working Groups who retain delivery architecture authority.
• Ensure architectural design commences alongside or subsequent to clearly defined Target Operating Models (TOM) and business processes. Maintain alignment between strategic intent, the Target Operating Model, and delivery execution and govern the architectural roadmap..
• Ensure designs leverage commodity tooling and reduce complex, bespoke human interfaces.