Enterprise IT Architect: Strategy, Governance & Cloud

Project People; Old Warren; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MBNL is seeking an IT Architect to shape technology strategy and drive architectural excellence. You will provide governance across domains, ensuring secure, scalable, interoperable, and cost-effective solutions aligned to business strategy.

The role involves working with stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery teams to transform demand into effective change. This hybrid role requires collaboration with Cyber-Security, Data, Digital Enablement, Operations, and Delivery teams, with a minimum of 2

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise, solution, or technology architecture roles.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks and industry best‑practices.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, APIs, data platforms, and modern technology patterns.
• Experience with suppliers and outsourced delivery partners.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders, IT teams, and suppliers to align technology solutions to business goals.
• Support development of enterprise architecture across business, application, data, and technology domains.
• Support technology strategy, portfolio planning, roadmaps, and investments through architectural insight.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Provide architecture assurance and challenge designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Apply security, resilience, integration, data governance, and privacy principles to solution designs.
• Support architecture governance forums and provide risk/benefit recommendations.
• Review supplier architecture deliverables and design quality.
• Monitor emerging technologies and propose innovation opportunities delivering business value.
• Define supplier contracts and manage suppliers in-life.
• Collaborate with Cyber-Security, Data, Digital Enablement, Operations, and Delivery teams to translate demand into change.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Architecture governance

Technical leadership

Education

TOGAF/Open CA/BCS or equivalent

Job description

MBNL is seeking an IT Architect to shape technology strategy and drive architectural excellence. You will provide governance across domains, ensuring secure, scalable, interoperable, and cost-effective solutions aligned to business strategy.

The role involves working with stakeholders, suppliers, and delivery teams to transform demand into effective change. This hybrid role requires collaboration with Cyber-Security, Data, Digital Enablement, Operations, and Delivery teams, with a minimum of 2