Enterprise Architect - Network Rail

Polluxa, Inc.; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Network Rail is seeking an Enterprise Architect (Digital, Data & AI) to shape the future of its digital, data and AI capabilities. You will bridge business vision with technology delivery, developing architecture strategies and roadmaps that enable major programmes while ensuring security, resilience and compliance.

Working with senior leaders across business and technology, you will translate complex challenges into practical outcomes, guide solution and domain architects, and steer

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading enterprise architecture initiatives.
• Experience shaping digital, data & AI capability roadmaps.
• Ability to translate business strategy into architecture outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategies, target states and roadmaps.
• Provide leadership across major investment programmes and govern architecture decisions.
• Ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Strategic Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Job description

About the role

At Network Rail, we keep Britain moving. Every day, millions of passengers and tonnes of freight rely on the railway to connect people, communities and businesses across the country. As the organisation responsible for managing and maintaining Britain's railway infrastructure, we play a critical role in supporting economic growth, improving sustainability and enabling a safer, more reliable transport network for the future.

Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) is at the heart of this transformation. We are modernising how the railway operates by harnessing the power of digital technology, data, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence to improve decision-making, enhance operational performance and deliver better outcomes for customers and colleagues. From enabling predictive maintenance and real-time operational insight to transforming business processes and customer experiences, technology is helping to build the railway of tomorrow.

Our Enterprise Architecture function provides the strategic direction that ensures technology investment delivers lasting business value. Working across Network Rail and the emerging Great British Railways landscape, we define the roadmaps, standards and architectural foundations that shape our digital future. This is an exciting opportunity to influence some of the largest and most complex digital transformation programmes in the UK, helping to create a more integrated, intelligent and sustainable railway.

Enterprise Architect (Digital, Data & AI) We are seeking an Enterprise Architect specifically focusing across Digital, Data & AI to play a key role in defining and governing the enterprise architecture that underpins Network Rail's digital transformation ambitions.

Acting as a strategic bridge between business vision and technology delivery, you will shape the future direction of our digital, data and AI capabilities across the organisation. You will develop enterprise-wide architecture strategies, target states, standards, principles and roadmaps that enable business objectives while ensuring solutions remain secure, resilient, scalable and aligned to industry and regulatory requirements.

Working closely with senior leaders across business, operational and technology functions, you will translate complex challenges into practical architecture outcomes. You will provide leadership across major investment programmes, guide solution and domain architects, and ensure that technology decisions support long-term business value, interoperability and operational effectiveness.