Enterprise Architect- Applications

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in music rights management is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Applications in London. This role involves developing application strategies, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring alignment with architectural standards. As part of a hybrid team, you will play a crucial role in driving technology strategies and business outcomes.

Benefits

Flexibility in working hours

25 days holiday entitlement

Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks

Enhanced family friendly leave

Retail discounts and gym discounts

Qualifications

• Proven success in a similar role with strategy innovation.
• Broad technology knowledge including Oracle, Microsoft, Cloud.
• Skilled in databases, ERDs, and data classifications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategies and roadmaps.
• Design application landscapes focusing on performance and integrity.
• Produce architecture documentation to support decision-making.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Architectural modelling

Collaboration

Problem solving

Negotiation

Change management

Tools

ArchiMate

Bizzdesign

Job description

Job Description

Role: Enterprise Architect- Applications

Job type: Permanent, full-time

Salary: £115K

Industry- Music – Music Rights Management, Copyright

Location: London – Hybrid (2-3 days per week in office)

Team: Enterprise Architecture

Purpose:

Our client is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect focusing on Applications to develop the applications strategy, roadmaps, and architecture, playing a crucial role in delivering business and technology strategies.

Sitting within the Enterprise Architecture team, you will be responsible for translating the business strategy and business architecture into an applications strategy and roadmaps with supporting artefacts e.g. architectural landscapes, insights, principles and standards. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders, including the executive team (ELT), senior leadership team (SLT), other enterprise architects, business architects, analysts & product owners, project managers and engineers.

The EA team has overall responsibility for all of the business systems, covering technologies including Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce and MuleSoft, both Cloud-based and on-premise.

Responsibilities:

•Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and stakeholders to define future strategies, roadmaps, and plans.

•Design and maintain conceptual/logical application landscapes focused on performance, scalability, and integrity.

•Develop and manage corporate taxonomies and application glossaries.

•Evaluate and recommend application technologies based on performance, scalability, and cost.

•Oversee application implementations and ensure alignment with architectural standards.

•Define application principles and standards, and measure compliance.

•Produce and maintain architecture documentation to support decision-making and solution design.

•Govern enterprise architecture assets—standards, models, policies—in a secure, version-controlled repository.

•Partner with technical and non-technical teams to understand data needs across systems (e.g., CRM, Finance, HR).

•Participate in governance groups and project boards, offering architectural recommendations.

•Provide guidance on application usage, optimisation, and exploitation.

•Support business case development to enhance application assets and publicise delivered benefits.

•Track technology trends to inform future platform development.

•Support Solution and Technical Architects in their activities.

Experience:

•Proven success in a similar role, with the ability to drive strategy, innovation, and delivery

•Broad technology knowledge: Oracle, Microsoft, Cloud, databases, APIs, web services.

•Proficient in architectural modelling using such as UML and ArchiMate.

•Experienced with architectural tools offering modelling and repository capabilities (preferably Bizzdesign).

•Strong understanding of databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL), data flows, ERDs, data mapping, and data classifications (e.g., master vs. transactional).

•Broad knowledge of enterprise systems such as CRM, Finance, HR, and integration platforms.

•Strategic leader with a strong track record of delivering practical, value-driven solutions.

•Experienced in modernising legacy application estates using scalable methods (e.g., microservices for differentiating capabilities).

•Skilled in applying pragmatic, right-sized governance and assurance to support delivery.

•Strong negotiator and problem solver with a practical, outcome-focused mindset.

•Keeps up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.

•Collaborative team player, effective across both technical and business domains.

•Excellent communicator, capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels.

•Effective change agent, driving impactful, organisation-wide improvements.

Benefits:

•Flexibility at the start, middle and end of your working day

•25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days

•Work from anywhere in the world, for up to 8 weeks of the year

•A range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity & paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support

•Other benefits, including retail discounts, time off to volunteer with charity partners, gym discounts and the option to spread the cost of travel into the office via a season ticket loan or bicycle loan.