Hybrid Lead Enterprise Architect

at Information Commissioner's Office

• Job title: Lead Enterprise Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £80,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Huntingdon, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Enterprise Architect providing strategic partnership for digital transformation at Anglian Water. Overseeing enterprise architecture initiatives and enhancing business-technology alignment with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner to the business, translating organisational goals into clear, actionable architectural direction
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, guiding digital initiatives, fostering collaboration, and promoting innovation and continuous improvement across the organisation
• Lead enterprise architecture activities, developing and maintaining reference architectures, defining principles and guardrails, and ensuring alignment between business strategy and technical delivery
• Provide guidance and mentorship to architects and teams, facilitating informed decision-making, optimising roadmaps, and managing risks across the architecture landscape
• Lead and develop the Enterprise Architecture team, championing a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative culture
• Oversee governance processes, maintain EA tools and practices, and drive consistency and innovation across the Digital Architecture Practice, ensuring architecture delivers real value to the business

Requirements

• Significant experience in customer facing architecture roles responsible for development of technical capabilities and roadmaps aligned to customer demand and industry trends
• Experience of operating within an Agile delivery function and culture of continuous integration, delivery & improvement
• Experience working in a matrix-managed organisation
• A strong ability to form good relationships with a diverse set of very senior stakeholders in all parts of an organisation and able to facilitate conflict resolution and negotiation
• Experience of coaching technical delivery resources to ensure the appropriate interpretation and adoption of practices
• Familiar with a broad range of technology concepts and vendors (particularly Microsoft and SAP)
• Knowledge management skills with experience of building knowledge repositories that encourage collaboration and inputs
• Experience or knowledge of EA modelling languages including ArchiMate
• Experience of operating and defining strategies, and future and transition states within a large complex enterprise
• Experience of people management

Benefits

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme