Enterprise Architect - Cloud Infrastructure & Enabling Tech

Marks and Spencer; Manchester; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Manchester is seeking an Enterprise Architect for Cloud and Infrastructure. This role involves leading architectural strategies, mentoring teams, and ensuring alignment across business and technical priorities. The ideal candidate has expertise in enterprise architecture, digital transformation experience, and a strategic mindset. The position offers a competitive package, including comprehensive benefits and a commitment to inclusivity in the workplace.

Benefits

20% colleague discount on all products

Competitive holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

Tailored induction and training

Exclusive perks and savings

Market-leading family policies

24/7 wellbeing support

One paid volunteer day a year

Qualifications

• Demonstratable enterprise architecture expertise with strong modelling capabilities (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN).
• Proven track record of delivering digital transformation at scale and execution at pace.
• Strong understanding of architectural patterns, integration, and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Decides on architectural strategic technology & vendor choices.
• Sets direction on 1-3 year target architectures and rolling adaptable costed roadmaps.
• Accountable for all definition, delivery, security, and performance of Architecture building blocks.

Skills

Enterprise architecture expertise

Strong modelling capabilities

Digital transformation experience

Understanding of architectural patterns

Strategic thinking

Job description

Summary

As an Enterprise Architect for Cloud and Infrastructure, you will be a technical leader focused on delivering customer‑centric outcomes, leveraging the latest in public cloud and data centre technologies.

You will lead and mentor architectural resources to achieve business goals, develop and own Enterprise Architecture roadmaps and apply industry best practices to support strategic objectives.

Collaborating with senior partners, Engineers and across product tribes, you will ensure alignment of architectural, business, product, and technical priorities.

All the details

What You'll Be Doing

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Decides on architectural strategic technology & vendor choices/selection for the architecture landscape and TCO economic ambition bringing together technical depth and breadth in a drive towards a single vision.
• Decides and sets direction on 1-3 year target architectures, transitional states, blueprints, principles, standards & rolling adaptable costed roadmaps for their area. This is in collaboration with D&T product, engineering, data and business stakeholders with a clear line of sight to business need / outcome/ vision and simplifies the landscape. This must also show end to end compliance with the rest of the architecture target.
• Form part of overall architecture governance ensuring adequate level of architecture artefacts are well understood, are clear, simple and collaboratively created. That transition roadmaps form business cases and executable plans and guide the way to full implementation.
• Accountable for all definition, delivery, security, and performance of all Architecture building blocks and key solution building blocks across your landscape.
• Drive communities of interest for your area of architecture including engineers alongside architects that can drive future target architectures through research and experimentation continually improving business outcome. The community will also create & champion architectural principles and drive engineering best practices through creation and automation of guardrails.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Demonstratable enterprise architecture expertise with strong modelling capabilities (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN).
• Experience developing enterprise models across Business Capability, Product, Service Domain and Data.
• Proven track record of delivering digital transformation at scale and execution at pace within the last 3 years of emerging architecture and technology trends.
• Strong understanding of architectural patterns, integration and modern engineering practices.
• Strategic thinking to drive customer‑centric outcomes with simple and easy to understand written and verbal communication.

What's in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We're inclusive, fast‑moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third‑party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probation.
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more.
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours.
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future.
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one.
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal.
• Market‑leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave.
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services.
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.