Enterprise Architect (Data)

Aegon UK; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 84,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking an Enterprise Architect (Data) to guide major transformation initiatives. The role requires establishing an architecture strategy and working closely with engineering teams to leverage data as a product. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills, AWS experience, and a track record in complex architectures. This is a permanent position based in Edinburgh with a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Non-contributory pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

38 days annual leave

Private medical cover

Retail discount vouchers

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and experience managing others in delivery.
• Proven track record of administering complex architectures.
• Experience with cloud architecture and its impact on business.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain architecture strategy and vision.
• Act as a senior leader representing architecture across multiple levels.
• Provide guidance to other architects.

Skills

Leadership skills

Relationship Management

Architecting complex architectures

Cloud concepts

AWS Cloud services familiarity

Job description

Overview

Enterprise Architect (Data)

Permanent

Location: Edinburgh, Peterborough or Witham (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Salary: A competitive salary from £84,480 - £126,720 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 7th October 2025

We're Aegon. We're a company of ambitious, positive problem-solvers who get things done. We're a team, not a group of individuals. Collaboration is our life force, and we believe it 's our duty to leave things better than we find them.

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

An opportunity has arisen for an Enterprise Architect (Data) to join our team on a permanent basis. In this role you will play a key role in guiding Aegon UK through large programmes of change, utilising strategic planning initiative to manage the transformation needed to achieve business goals.

You will offer actionable insights and recommendations to Business and Technology leaders, enabling them to adapt to meet specific business objectives and leverage market disruptions effectively. You'll work very closely with our engineering teams in a cross-functional structure, where architecture and engineering work hand-in-hand.

Aegon have built a data platform working directly with AWS. We're looking for someone who can help us transform from data being seen as an asset to our data being a product that continues to add value. We want to use the depth and breadth of data we have as the UK's largest platform to help people live their best lives.

You will collaborate with multiple departments, stakeholders and external vendors to help create a cohesive data strategy that aligns with our business goals.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

• Establish and maintain the AUK architecture strategy, setting the vision, drivers, and goals that shape the target architecture.
• Act as a senior leader to represent architecture at the highest levels within the UK, Aegon Group, and externally as needed.
• Provide guidance and leadership to other architects.
• Lead strategic relationships with key architecture stakeholders.
• Ensure appropriate architectural governance is in place within AUK.

Qualifications

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Strong leadership skills and experience managing others in the delivery of: Business Cases, Impact Assessments and Architectural Definitions
• Relationship Management skills, managing senior stakeholders up to and including Executive level - to build relationships that ensure confidence in the technical delivery capabilities
• A Proven track record of architecting, building and administering complex architectures and technologies
• Demonstrable experience in the application of architecture, enterprise roadmaps, analytics, , IT strategies, innovation, and cloud concepts and methodologies
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud services and architecture best practice
• Broad and working knowledge of IT applications, with specific knowledge of how cloud architecture relates to other areas of IT and how it impacts on other business functions.

It would also be great but not essential if you have:

• Experience in the design and application of architecture within the Financial Services industry

What's in it for you?

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%. We're enhancing our pension from November 2025. If you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top it up by a further 13%.
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
• 38 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

The legal bits

We'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.