Enterprise Architect

ENGINEERINGUK; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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Job Details

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Flexible working with up to 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 28th April 2025

At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we're harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.



Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you're ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.

In a nutshell

The Business Domain Architect role is aligned to a specific business domain or value stream within Virgin Atlantic. They work closely with business stakeholders to understand the vision and goals for their domain, develop current and future state architectures-covering business, application, and data-and manage a roadmap to reach the target state. This role also contributes to Virgin Atlantic's overall technical strategy and supports the drive for innovation.

Day to day

• Develop close business relationships, understand, and influence digital business strategies
• Develop Current and Future State Business, Data and Application Architectures
• Develop and maintain pragmatic and actionable roadmaps
• Support the formation of Technology Investment Portfolios
• Contribute to Technical Architectures to ensure alignment to Business Strategy
• Contribute to the development of Technical Strategies and Reference Architectures
• Manage Total Risk and Cost across the IT Estate

About you

• Proven experience in architectural roles (e.g., Solution, Business, or Enterprise Architecture).
• Broad understanding of business, application, and data architecture principles.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and how to apply them in practice.
• Experience in airline or travel industry.
• Familiarity with operating model design.
• Experience using EA tools such as LeanIX.

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive.

Company

Richard Branson founded Virgin Atlantic in 1984 with the intention of shaking up the aviation industry. Since then, we’ve grown from a small team, one 747 plane and a single route, to a global network that employs thousands of wonderful people worldwide.

We’re not just your average airline. We’re a family-centric one who recognises togetherness as a hugely important aspect of life. We support and care about our employees and their families, which makes Virgin Atlantic a special place to work and the long-haul airline our customers fall in love with.

When it comes to our people, they’re a passionate lot, united in creating something different. It’s always been like this. It’s in our DNA, and it was ignited within us from the moment we started flying. So, step on board, get ready to find your purpose, embrace your human spirit and let it fly.

Our ways of working

We’re on a mission to become the most loved travel company, but with this comes great responsibility. We must support all of our people to embrace a growth mindset. To think like a start-up and act like an owner of Virgin Atlantic and to live our values every day. Our ways of working are designed to reflect the balance of happiness, productivity, collaboration, and team spirit that make us uniquely Virgin. We have built our approach on six core principles, recognising work as an activity, not a place. The focus is less on when and where people work, collaborate, or learn, but on their performance and outcomes. This is built on a foundation of trust and celebrates the diversity of our people, embracing that we all have different work-life considerations and varying times when our energy is highest.