Hybrid Enterprise Architect: Data Platforms & Governance

Janes Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days leave

Half-day wellbeing every 6 months

Private medical insurance – BUPA

Maternity pay

Paternity pay

Life cover

LinkedIn Learning

Job summary

Janes seeks an Enterprise Architect to connect enterprise direction to practical design and delivery. You will chair architecture forums, set governance, and guide engineers toward secure, scalable cloud solutions across a complex data domain including AI, APIs, and data platforms.

You will influence stakeholders across Product, Security, and Engineering, shaping architecture artefacts, roadmaps, and tooling while maintaining hands-on engagement with delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in enterprise and solution architecture for complex data products.
• Strong software engineering and systems background.
• Experience leading architecture governance and forums.
• Experience maturing architecture tooling and frameworks.
• Experience across cloud-native data platforms with security and risk focus.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across Product, Commercial, Security, Service, and Engineering.
• Ability to explain complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Willingness to roll up sleeves to lead through challenges.

Responsibilities

• Act as the face of Architecture for Janes and be the senior architecture authority within Engineering.
• Chair architecture forums and ensure governance for decision‑making, with decisions evidenced and traceable into delivery.
• Enable engineers and architects to make good decisions within clear guardrails, avoiding bottlenecks while guiding direction.
• Bridge enterprise and solution architecture: translate target direction into implementable designs and transition plans.
• Oversee architecture across the product technology domain, partnering with Data and Software Architects, Principal Platform Engineer, and Engineering Managers.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Governance leadership

Cloud-native data platforms

Stakeholder influence

Clear technical communication

Hands-on leadership

Tools

AWS

Job description

Janes seeks an Enterprise Architect to connect enterprise direction to practical design and delivery. You will chair architecture forums, set governance, and guide engineers toward secure, scalable cloud solutions across a complex data domain including AI, APIs, and data platforms.

You will influence stakeholders across Product, Security, and Engineering, shaping architecture artefacts, roadmaps, and tooling while maintaining hands-on engagement with delivery teams.