Enterprise Architect

ZipRecruiter; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an Enterprise Architect to define and communicate architecture strategies that align with business goals. This role involves collaboration across teams to drive architectural transformations and ensure alignment with long-term strategies. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in application architecture and experience with Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of application architecture required.
• Experience in business, data, or infrastructure architecture needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate current and target state architecture.
• Translate architecture roadmaps into actionable work packages.
• Lead complex architectural transformations across domains.

Skills

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Agile Methodologies

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Job description

Job Description

Join us as an Enterprise Architect

• For someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business.
• You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope to ensure that the current architecture delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long-term strategy.
• With valuable exposure, you'll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and create long-term value for the bank.

What you'll do

As an Enterprise Architect, you'll be defining and communicating the current, resultant, and target state architecture for your assigned scope. You'll ensure that the architecture links to and is informed by our overall strategy and architecture, producing the desired outcomes.

You'll influence the development of business strategies at an organizational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas, related to both new and existing technologies.

Additionally, you'll be:

• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that enable incremental delivery of value in the product backlog.
• Defining, creating, and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards, and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment with higher-level models.
• Working closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers, and release managers to define the target intentional architecture.
• Leading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains.
• Seeking out and utilizing continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive collaboration around a common technical vision.

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll need expert knowledge of application architecture, along with experience in at least one of the following: business, data, or infrastructure architecture, with working knowledge of the remaining disciplines. You should have excellent communication skills to clearly convey complex technical concepts to colleagues and senior leadership, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in developing, syndicating, and communicating architectures, designs, and proposals with a focus on Security.
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks like TOGAF and ArchiMate.
• Experience working with business solution vendors, technology vendors, and market products.
• A background in systems development lifecycle, best practices, and approaches.
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering.