Hybrid Principal Enterprise Architect

at ITV

• Job title: Principal Enterprise Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Principal Enterprise Architect at ITV focusing on architectural strategies to drive organizational change. Collaborating across teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop target state architectures and transition plans to achieve the organisation's strategic goals and to develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts and roadmaps
• Document and communicate as-is and target-state views in forms that are understandable and useful to a range of business and technology audiences.
• Develop and maintain the organisation's enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with objectives, Identifying new technologies which can make a material impact on the sector and add competitive advantage
• Lead and enable decision making processes that enable value, change and growth across the business.
• Develop, coach and communicate architectural thinking across technology, to embed best practise across the organisation.
• Develop and manage members of the team from junior to senior roles.
• Design and develop policies, standards, guidelines, roadmaps, and strategy that affect the selection, design, development, implementation, maintenance and use of technology within the organisation.
• Work with the Enterprise Architecture team and wider technology domains and architecture groups to map and document logical architectures, service boundaries and workflows.
• Liaise with divisional technical design groups to ensure proposed designs remain within organisational guidelines, standards and architectural principles.
• Conduct current state assessments and identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in business processes and systems.
• Collaborate on high-level and detailed designs for new solutions and enhancements to existing systems, using C4 and other modelling approaches where appropriate.
• Review system designs and recommend improvements based on defined principles and standards.
• Take a leading role in defining and maintaining a group-wide Business Capability model and in modelling the relationships between business capabilities, applications and organisational structures.
• Work in a service-led manner to identify gaps, dependencies and opportunities for improvement across domains.
• Work closely with technology leads within each domain on architectural decisions and directional themes toward future state.
• Collaborate on the creation of value chain maps and other situational awareness artefacts to explore options, dependencies and strategic contribution.
• Identify and analyse opportunities to improve business and technology workflows through workflow orchestration, automation and Intelligent Automation practices.
• Support the design and documentation of automation patterns spanning business process automation, system-to-system orchestration, AI-assisted workflows and operational control points.
• Help assess feasibility and implementation considerations for modern workflow and Intelligent Automation initiatives, including integration, data quality, monitoring, resilience, supportability, security and governance.

Requirements

• Proven ability to lead design authority meetings with senior stakeholders and translate high-level requirements into tangible designs, models and decision options.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Platforms and how they fit in the context of enterprise architecture and domain reference models.
• Confidence to lead meetings with stakeholders, management, and individual contributors and very good written and verbal communication, presentation, service and technical writing skills
• Strong skills in enterprise architecture modelling and documentation, using C4 and other appropriate modelling tools and techniques.
• Experience working with technology departments and software-based solution design and analysis, with a solid understanding of systems and interfaces.
• Ability to capture, document and communicate complex technical and workflow concepts clearly to multiple levels of audience.
• Understanding of workflow design, process analysis and implementation considerations for workflow automation or Intelligent Automation in enterprise environments.

Benefits

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life