Enterprise Architect - Integration

Marks and Spencer; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known retail brand in Manchester is seeking an Enterprise Architect to lead architectural strategies and mentor teams. You will deliver customer-centric outcomes by collaborating with cross-functional teams to align architectural and business priorities. Ideal candidates should possess enterprise architecture expertise, strong modelling skills, and a proven track record in delivering digital transformation. Join a fast-evolving organization that values inclusivity and innovation while offering competitive benefits such as a colleague discount and strong pension plans.

Benefits

20% colleague discount on 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

• Demonstrable enterprise architecture expertise with strong modelling capabilities.
• Experience developing enterprise models across various domains.
• Proven track record of delivering digital transformation at scale.
• Leadership abilities to coach high-performing architectural teams.
• Influence and negotiation skills with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Make strategic technology decisions and set direction for architecture.
• Ensure adequate governance of architecture artefacts.
• Act as a technical advisor to product teams.
• Create a collaborative environment aligning priorities across functions.

Skills

Enterprise architecture expertise

Modelling capabilities (ArchiMate, UML, BPMN)

Digital transformation experience

Leadership abilities

Negotiation skills

Job description

Summary

As an integral member of the M&S Architecture team, you’ll be joining a well‑loved, historic brand with technology solutions that serve millions of customers and empower thousands of colleagues every year. As an Enterprise Architect, you will be a technical leader focused on delivering customer‑centric outcomes. 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, and across product tribes, you will ensure alignment of architectural, business, product, and technical priorities.

What you’ll do

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.
• Technical advisor to product teams, communicating the vision and plan and how technology will support outcomes alongside guiding and assuring the successful implementation of the target at squad level
• Create a positive and collegiate environment that encourages collaboration with all stakeholders, aligning cross‑functional architectural, business, product, and technical priorities.

Who you are

Your skills 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.
• Leadership abilities to develop/coach high‑performing architectural teams, lead communities of interest and wider virtual team constructs
• Influence and negotiation skills with senior stakeholders. Ability to bring people along a journey that's relevant to them and their goals

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.

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