Enterprise Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Architect

Location: Yorkshire (Flexible, Hybrid Working)

Salary: Competitive

Package Includes: 42 Days Holiday and 20% Pension!

Employment Type: Permanent | Full-Time

Start Date: ASAP | Interviewing Now

This is a high-impact Enterprise Architecture role within a large, complex organisation undertaking significant transformation across its research and innovation capabilities.

You will operate at the heart of strategy, working directly with senior leadership to shape how technology enables cutting-edge research. While aligned to the research domain, this role has enterprise-wide influence, contributing to broader business and IT strategy across multiple functions.

This is not a hands-on technical design role. Instead, you will act as a strategic advisor, helping senior stakeholders make informed decisions, navigating complex regulatory environments, and ensuring technology investment aligns with long-term organisational goals.

• Shaping and evolving enterprise-wide IT and business architecture strategy, aligning immediate change demand with long-term transformation objectives
• Developing and maintaining business capability models to articulate current and future state architecture
• Identifying capability gaps, duplication and optimisation opportunities, particularly within research and innovation services
• Defining high-level "As-Is" and "To-Be" architectures and supporting the creation of business and technology roadmaps
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, including external partners, translating complex technical concepts into clear, business-focused outcomes
• Supporting major programmes by providing architectural direction, ensuring solutions are aligned to enterprise strategy and deliver measurable value
• Leading and coordinating architectural activity across multiple initiatives, ensuring consistency, quality and alignment
• Supporting the development and maturity of the organisation's Enterprise Architecture function, standards and governance
• Working closely with leadership across IT and research, including a dotted-line relationship into Research IT, to ensure alignment of priorities and delivery
• Contributing to business case development and ensuring architecture underpins strategic decision-making

• Research and innovation platforms, services and partnerships
• Navigating complex stakeholder environments, including collaboration with healthcare and research organisations
• Supporting secure and compliant research environments, including frameworks and regulatory considerations
• Enabling effective management of research systems, contracts, and funding-related processes
• Driving business process understanding and re-engineering across research capabilities

Essential Experience

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect or in a senior architecture role within a large, complex organisation
• Strong track record of developing enterprise strategies, capability models and architectural roadmaps
• Experience working across multiple architecture domains, including business, application and technology
• Ability to operate at a strategic level, engaging senior stakeholders and influencing decision‑making
• Demonstrable experience translating business needs into technology‑enabled outcomes, and vice versa
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end delivery, from early concept through to implementation and business change
• Experience leading or coordinating architectural teams, often in Matrix or non‑line management structures
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non‑technical audiences

• Exposure to research, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments
• Understanding of secure and compliant research practices and associated standards (eg ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, NHS DSP Toolkit, or similar)
• Awareness of high‑performance or research computing environments, such as GPU/CPU architectures, high‑performance storage or advanced networking (beneficial but not essential)
• Familiarity with research‑related software ecosystems or AI/ML tooling (eg PyTorch or similar), at a conceptual level
• Experience…