Enterprise Architect

Orbis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis is seeking an Enterprise Architect to translate business strategy into capability maps and an aligned architecture roadmap across business, data, and technology. You will influence senior leadership, drive multi-year transformation programs, and shape platform strategy with a strong focus on asset management and capital markets.

You will work across investment and technology teams to deliver architecture standards, evolving systems with AI-enabled approaches while maintaining regulatory

Qualifications

• Significant experience in business architecture and enterprise architecture with a track record of turning strategy into roadmaps that get delivered.
• Proven experience leading large-scale transformation in a regulated financial services context.
• Experience in asset management or related financial services with knowledge of the sector's vendor and technology landscape.
• Strong grounding in capability modelling, value stream mapping and target operating models.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align enterprise direction with business leadership.
• Track record driving standard adoption across federated organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own Orbis’ business capability maps, target-state views and enterprise roadmap, and drive adoption across change programs.
• Contribute to architecture principles, standards and guardrails at enterprise level and ensure delivery against them.
• Drive alignment with business and investment leadership on platform strategy and requirements.
• Translate enterprise direction into pillar-facing guidance and push it through to delivery.
• Lead vendor RFPs and technology assessments with a business-architecture perspective.
• Flag gaps, blockers and dependencies early and drive resolution.
• Advise on adopting AI within the architecture to evolve systems and ways of working.

Skills

Business architecture

Enterprise architecture

Transformation leadership

Asset management knowledge

Vendor landscape understanding

Stakeholder influence

Target operating models

Job description

Everything we do exists to find alpha, investment value the market has overlooked. We believe technology is a genuine source of that edge and core to how we find and act on conviction. Because of this, we are modernising our core platform, investing in our data, and building AI solutions that help us achieve alpha for our clients.

Architecture is the thread that connects all of it. It turns our investment philosophy into the capabilities, platforms and choices that deliver it, so each investment reinforces the others and the whole estate compounds. We are aligning the platform, data and AI to work as one.

As an Enterprise Architect you sit at that point. You will work across investment, business and technology teams, shape our most consequential technology decisions, and guide the major work we have underway. It is a role with real reach: close enough to the business and investment process to understand what creates edge, with the mandate to set the direction that gets us there.

We are home to world class talent, and we're looking for more of it to help define what our investment edge looks like next.

Why Orbis?

• Culture. We are committed to our Core Values. We encourage intellectual curiosity, individualism, and collaboration across different areas of the business. We seek to hear our people’s voices – whether quiet or loud. Sharing ideas and challenging the status quo are commonplace.
• Impact. Your work directly supports Orbis’ investment process and decision-making.
• Autonomy and accountability. While guidance and support are provided, team members are responsible for their own work.
• Growth opportunities. We support our people in continuous learning and development.
• Agile environment. We are committed to providing a work environment that balances the needs of our clients, the needs of our teams, and the personal needs, commitments, and interests of our people.
• Philanthropy. Our people can contribute to society in a unique and personal way, through various philanthropy opportunities and programmes.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Own Orbis’ business capability maps, target-state views and enterprise roadmap, and drive their adoption across the change book so programmes build toward one destination, not several.
• Contribute to the architecture principles, standards and guardrails set at enterprise level and hold the function and the business to delivering against them — not just publishing them.
• Drive alignment with business and investment leadership on platform strategy — incorporating and challenging their requirements until decisions are made, not just heard.
• Translate enterprise direction into pillar-facing guidance with the Pillar Architects, and drive it through to delivery, keeping direction and delivery reality connected.
• Drive vendor RFPs and technology assessments to a decision, bringing a business architecture lens and a working view of the asset management vendor and technology landscape.
• Flag business architecture gaps, blockers and dependencies early, and drive them to resolution before they become delivery problems.
• Drive the adoption of AI in how the function designs and evolves systems, pushing where it changes ways of working, not just assessing it.

About you

You start from the problem, not the technology. You’ve driven a transformation at the same scale and rigour as Orbis’ platform strategy — multi-year, enterprise-wide change in a regulated financial services firm. You think in business capabilities and target operating models first, technology second, and you push the function to a standard as readily as you influence business and investment leadership. You measure yourself on outcomes delivered, not plans published.

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture or a senior transformation role, with a track record of turning strategy into roadmaps that get delivered, not shelved.
• Led or driven change as a senior architect through a transformation of comparable scale and rigour to Orbis’ platform strategy — a bar on experience, not title.
• Proven experience in asset management or comparable financial services, with strong, current knowledge of the sector’s vendor and technology landscape and a solid grasp of capital markets and financial instruments.
• Strong grounding in business architecture — capability modelling, target operating models, value stream mapping — applied pragmatically.
• Track record driving adoption of architecture standards across organisations and operating within a federated model that balances enterprise direction with local context.
• Strong influencing and facilitation skills, credible with business and investment leadership and other senior stakeholders.
• Structured and analytical, able to drive outcomes through influence rather than authority.

The Company

We are a global firm with offices across eight countries, over 400 employees and more than $60 billion in assets under management. But those numbers don’t define Orbis. It’s our values, how we do things day-by-day, and how we add value for our clients that define us. Our investment philosophy is fundamental, long-term and contrarian. As contrarian investors, we aim to take a different perspective, and this filters into everything we do. To invest differently, you need to think differently. This is encouraged by having teams of people with different backgrounds, experiences and ways of thinking.

Find out more about us at www.orbis.com.