Hands-On Enterprise Architect — API‑Driven, Integration Leader

inploi; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus up to 20%

Pension scheme

25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Employee discounts

Life Assurance

Free car parking

EV scheme

Family friendly policies

Refer a friend

Rewards platform

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Warner Hotels is building an enterprise architecture function from the ground up. The Enterprise Architect will be the hands-on technical engine, owning the target architecture across applications, integration, data, and infrastructure.

You will produce artefacts, lead technology assessments, and govern integration patterns while working with engineering teams, application managers and external partners to ensure decisions align with the target state.

Qualifications

• Hands-on practitioner who produces architecture artefacts and leads reviews.
• Designs and governs API-first, event-driven integration patterns.
• Communicates architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain Warner's enterprise architecture artefacts (application landscape, integration diagram, data flow, tech standards).
• Lead architecture reviews and assess alignment to target state, identify risks.
• Define API governance and ensure compliance across teams.

Skills

Hands-On Architect

Integration architecture

Clear communicator

Collaborator

Enterprise architecture

API governance

Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure)

Architecture artefacts

Tools

Lucidchart

Miro

Confluence

Job description

Warner Hotels is building an enterprise architecture function from the ground up. The Enterprise Architect will be the hands-on technical engine, owning the target architecture across applications, integration, data, and infrastructure.

You will produce artefacts, lead technology assessments, and govern integration patterns while working with engineering teams, application managers and external partners to ensure decisions align with the target state.