AI-Driven Enterprise Architect - Secure, Global Platform

Headfirst-B.v.; Hounslow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadFirst Group is seeking an Enterprise Architect to ensure coherence across business, data, application, integration, infrastructure and security. You will guide architecture standards, lead a design authority, and drive a shared target state with engineering, product and leadership.

You will shape multi-region, multi-brand architecture and embed AI responsibly while ensuring security by design from day one, partnering with executives and client teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect spanning business, data, application, integration, infrastructure and security domains.
• Track record of leading through influence and technical authority.
• Experience architecting for multi-region, multi-brand, or multi-tenant products.
• Hands-on embedding AI/agentic capability into products responsibly.
• Security-by-design mindset in collaboration with security/privacy teams.
• Strong communication skills to explain trade-offs to engineers and executives.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture across business, data, application, integration, infrastructure and security domains.
• Set architecture principles, standards and reusable patterns adopted by engineering and product teams.
• Own a unified technology roadmap aligning domain roadmaps and reducing duplication.
• Architect for scale with multi-tenancy, shared services and regional onboarding without rebuilding platforms.
• Design product architecture across regions including data residency, localisation and currency.
• Partner with VP Data & AI to create reference architectures for AI-enabled services.
• Embed security, privacy and resilience into every design from the outset.
• Lead a design authority for high-impact decisions across domains.
• Mentor architects and engineers to raise design thinking, without reporting lines.
• Act as trusted advisor to CTPO and leadership, representing architecture to clients and auditors.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Influence & leadership

Multi-region architecture

AI integration

Security by design

Clear communication

Job description

HeadFirst Group is seeking an Enterprise Architect to ensure coherence across business, data, application, integration, infrastructure and security. You will guide architecture standards, lead a design authority, and drive a shared target state with engineering, product and leadership.

You will shape multi-region, multi-brand architecture and embed AI responsibly while ensuring security by design from day one, partnering with executives and client teams.