Domain Architect: Digital Backbone & Employee Experience

Leonardo; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time to Recharge: generous leave (flex

Pension scheme with employer contrib.

Mental health support

Flexible benefits and hybrid working

Job summary

Leonardo UK seeks a Domain Architect for Digital Backbone and Digital Employee Experience to own target architecture, multi-year roadmaps and investment storytelling across platforms essential to the business. You will align with security, governance and architecture boards, setting direction for delivery teams and shaping technology foundation.

This strategy-to-portfolio role requires strong domain knowledge, vendor awareness and proven roadmap ownership, with hybrid travel to sites for

Qualifications

• Hands-on grounding in hosting and datacentre, networking, public cloud, platform engineering or digital workplace.
• Proven ownership of a multi-year technology roadmap with funding and delivery.
• Understanding of cost, run-cost and affordability as architectural properties.
• Fluency in TOGAF, ArchiMate or equivalent, applied pragmatically.
• Evidence-based judgement using risk, demand and growth forecasts.
• Experience in architecture governance and design authority.
• Strong influence and coaching across engineers and directors.
• Defence/regulated industry experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the target state and convert it into a funded, sequenced multi-year roadmap.
• Define and maintain the target architecture across Digital Workplace, Network and Hosting, Cloud and Hybrid, and Platform Engineering.
• Maintain an accurate baseline of the current estate with landscape models reflecting reality.
• Contribute domain content to cross-cutting standards and represent domains at architecture governance forums.
• Translate signals from risk, demand and market direction into domain drivers for roadmaps and investment planning.
• Provide architecture content for business cases, stage gates and portfolio submissions.

Skills

Domain depth

Road mapping

Investment planning

Architecture method

Evidence and judgement

Assurance and governance

Influence and coaching

Experience in architecture function

Job description

Leonardo UK seeks a Domain Architect for Digital Backbone and Digital Employee Experience to own target architecture, multi-year roadmaps and investment storytelling across platforms essential to the business. You will align with security, governance and architecture boards, setting direction for delivery teams and shaping technology foundation.

This strategy-to-portfolio role requires strong domain knowledge, vendor awareness and proven roadmap ownership, with hybrid travel to sites for