Enterprise Architect

At Exchange for Change, we are building something the UK has never had before. Working across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, we are designing and delivering a Deposit Return Scheme from the ground up, creating a system that helps reduce litter and waste by encouraging people to return their empty drinks bottles and cans for recycling.

We are not for profit, industry led, and driven by purpose. A national movement with a clear mission. No bottle unreturned. No can left behind.

This is not just another job. This is a rare opportunity to do meaningful work, shape a landmark national programme, and help deliver lasting positive impact for people, businesses and the planet alike.

As Enterprise and Cloud Architect, you will translate Exchange for Change’s business and technology strategy into a coherent, secure, resilient and evolvable enterprise technology architecture.

You will provide day-to-day architectural leadership across EFC’s technology ecosystem, ensuring that applications, integration, cloud and shared platforms, data technology, cyber security and technology operations work together as one architecture rather than as separate supplier solutions.

This is an enterprise-first role with genuine cloud depth. You will own the enterprise architecture baseline and target state while providing particular leadership for the Azure and shared-platform foundation that underpins much of the EFC estate. Decisions must remain driven by business outcomes, architectural principles, operational realities and long-term sustainability rather than by individual technology products.

You will work closely with business leaders, technology teams, domain architects and delivery partners to turn strategy and programme needs into clear roadmaps, standards, patterns and decisions. You will challenge complexity, manage architectural risk and help delivery teams move at pace without creating unmanaged security, resilience or operational exposure.

This is a greenfield opportunity to shape the architecture of a nationally significant service from the outset. Success will be measured by the coherence, resilience and sustainability of the technology estate, the quality and traceability of decisions, and the ability of architecture governance to enable delivery rather than slow it down.

You’ll be based at our Milton Keynes office (30min from Euston) with the option to work from home 2/3 days per week.

• Define and maintain EFC’s enterprise technology architecture baseline, target architecture and key transition states.
• Translate EFC’s technology strategy and multi-year roadmap into practical architecture roadmaps, standards, reference patterns, guardrails and work packages.
• Maintain coherence across EFC’s strategic platforms and domains, including Azure, SAP and SAP BTP, Service Now, Databricks, the DRS core, integration services, RVM connectivity and external retailer and supplier interfaces.
• Operate the day-to-day Architecture and Technical Design Authority within delegated authority, reviewing designs, recording decisions and escalating material risks or exceptions where required.
• Ensure supplier and internal designs meet EFC architecture standards, cyber security requirements, engineering principles, non-functional requirements and operational acceptance criteria.
• Own the target architecture for EFC’s Azure estate and shared cloud-platform services, including landing zones, governance, networking, identity patterns, environment segmentation, resilience and platform automation.
• Define architecture patterns for secure connectivity, APIs, events and information exchange across cloud, SaaS, external suppliers, retailers, RVMs and other ecosystem participants.
• Ensure…