About the role

  • Enterprise Architect leading business application and integration architecture at FCA. Defining strategies and governance while engaging senior leaders for sustainable outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the business application and integration architecture domain to deliver aligned, future ready solutions that enable organisational agility
  • Define and maintain enterprise application strategies and roadmaps to ensure technology investments drive meaningful business outcomes
  • Create and evolve patterns, policies and standards so teams can adopt consistent, high-quality practices with confidence and clarity
  • Provide architectural governance through collaboration and boards to keep solutions aligned with strategic direction and technology vision
  • Engage senior leaders to influence decisions that shape impactful, sustainable outcomes
  • Develop a central repository of tools and artefacts to empower knowledge sharing and strengthen the architecture community
  • Shape and mature cloud and zero trust journeys to deliver secure, flexible and self-service multi cloud capabilities
  • Blend market trends with organisational needs to inspire innovative approaches and maintain strategic relevance

Requirements

  • Prior experience applying architecture principles to influence business change and design application or integration architectures
  • Proven experience with architectural governance processes, methodologies and frameworks, including familiarity with Infrastructure, Software and Platform as a Service (IaaS, SaaS and PaaS) environments
  • Demonstrable experience developing and promoting innovative technical strategies while understanding interactions between people, processes and technology
  • Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills, with effective relationship-building across all organisational levels
  • Ability to take a holistic view of organisational needs, ensuring cross-functional considerations are integrated
  • Demonstrable skill in applying strategic and innovative thinking to resolve business issues and assess technical impact
  • Experience with frameworks and methodologies such as SAFe, Agile, ITIL, DevSecOps, TOGAF, or Zachman
  • Deep understanding of a broad range of technologies and emerging trends
  • Experience working with multiple solution providers and recommending sourcing options for enterprise application and integration platforms
  • Significant expertise in API integration, containerisation, microservices and cloud platforms (AWS, O365, GCP)

Benefits

  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work
  • Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
  • Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance
  • 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
  • A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

Job title

Enterprise Architect

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

£72,100 - £100,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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