Principal Enterprise Architect

We're looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect to join our Fintech team.

As N Brown continues to evolve its technology landscape and accelerate digital transformation, this role will play a critical part in shaping our future architecture. You'll provide strategic leadership across business and technology, defining target-state architecture, driving alignment across teams, and ensuring technology investments support our long-term business objectives.

This is both a hands on and a highly strategic role that combines enterprise architecture leadership with an AI-native approach to problem solving and delivery. We are looking for someone who is already embracing AI as a core part of how they think, design, evaluate options and create architectural outputs, helping us scale quality and consistency across our Fintech start up division.

• Own and define the enterprise target architecture, ensuring alignment between business strategy, technology priorities and delivery outcomes.
• Translate business direction into clear architectural approaches, principles and specifications that engineering and delivery teams can execute with confidence.
• Provide end-to-end architectural leadership across multiple domains, ensuring solutions work cohesively across the wider technology ecosystem.
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, governance, design principles and integration patterns.
• Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies and opportunities, escalating issues where appropriate and influencing decision‑making at senior leadership level.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data and Business stakeholders to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered in line with agreed architectural direction.
• Drive simplification and modernisation of existing technology platforms, helping to reduce technical debt and legacy constraints.
• Use AI and automation as a core part of the architecture process to model options, test designs against constraints, improve specifications and create scalable, repeatable approaches across the Digital Factory.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities, sharing insight and recommendations that improve organisational effectiveness.
• Contribute to commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives by providing architecture expertise, thought leadership and technical credibility.

• Significant experience operating in an Enterprise Architecture leadership role within a small, scale-up or large-scale, complex organisation.
• Proven ability to define target‑state architectures and roadmap strategies that enable business transformation.
• Strong understanding of modern digital platforms, cloud technologies, data architectures, integration patterns and enterprise applications.
• Experience translating business strategy into practical technology solutions and architectural frameworks.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders, balancing strategic goals with delivery realities.
• Broad understanding of software engineering practices, platform architecture and technology governance.
• Experience working across multiple product, engineering and business teams to deliver cohesive enterprise‑wide outcomes.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and decision‑making skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Experience supporting organisational transformation, operating model change and modern ways of working.
• Experience using AI tools to support architecture design, option modelling, specification development and decision‑making.
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