Principal Architect

ITV Consumer Limited 2024; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ITV is seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Architect to lead development and implementation of enterprise-wide technology strategies aligned with organisational goals. The role focuses on shaping target architectures and governance to enable growth across ITV’s UK operations, with travel across locations as required.

The successful candidate will drive collaboration with senior stakeholders to translate business vision into real architectural blueprints and roadmaps, delivering value through

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing enterprise architectures.
• Ability to align business strategy with technology solutions.
• Proven governance and architecture patterns.
• Experience collaborating with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Lead development of business capability models and reference architectures.
• Provide oversight on solution design, integration, and technical debt.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements.

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Enterprise Architect to lead the development and implementation of enterprise-wide technology strategies that align with our organisation's overall strategic objectives. The successful candidate will have experience designing and implementing complex enterprise architectures, utilising both technical and business expertise to drive growth and transformation. As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will be at the heart of our ambition to help transform and grow our business. This role is helping stakeholders to shape innovative solutions which deliver results. We are looking for an individual who has a proven track record of aligning target business vision and requirements with enterprise solutions by collaborating with wider stakeholders to identify the target state blueprints and architecture vision for the enterprise. Someone who has deep knowledge of architectural standards, an effective governance approach, patterns for enterprise architecture with the ability to develop enterprise strategies and processes. Our business operates across multiple territories and teams, and this role offers the opportunity to build experience and bring your wealth of technology expertise to stakeholders in new and diverse projects, each with their own unique set of challenges. The role requires excellent business and technology understanding, as well as experience in technology strategy and selection. We are seeking candidates who can evidence a broader consulting skill set. This role will be based out of the UK with flexible working arrangements. This role requires travel from time-to-time to multiple UK locations.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Vision

• Develop and maintain the organisation's enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives, and take a lead role in owning a dimension relating to a business domain.
• Contribute to an enterprise architecture strategy that enables value and growth across the business.
• Develop target state architectures and transition plans to achieve the organisation's strategic goals.
• Shape and document ITV's Technology strategy and agree a realisable roadmap to deliver value little and often. Consolidate process plans, solution architecture plans, and capability plans into a single, trusted, and unified roadmap.

Architecture Development & Governance and Decisions

• Develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, including business capability models, technology reference models, solution architectures, and roadmaps with reusable architecture patterns for current and future projects
• Lead the development of business architecture blueprints and roadmaps that align with the organisation's overall strategic objectives. Define and communicate the target state architecture and interim states.
• Provide impact assessments to drive decision-making and provide oversight of solution design validation and integration guidance to teams.
• Ensure technical debt is understood, documented, and accepted by stakeholders. Lead Partner with Delivery leadership to execute legacy application retirement, directly supporting current and future business cases.
• Design and develop policies, standards, guidelines, roadmaps, and strategy that affect the selection, design, development, implementation, maintenance and use of technology. Ensure compliance with industry best practices, regulatory requirements, and security standards and maintain architectural integrity across all delivery teams.
• Define high-level enterprise target states and integration patterns, collaborating with Domain Directors and/or Technical Working Groups who retain delivery architecture authority.
• Ensure architectural design commences alongside or subsequent to clearly defined Target Operating Models (TOM) and business processes. Maintain alignment between strategic intent, the Target Operating Model, and delivery execution and govern the architectural roadmap..
• Ensure designs leverage commodity tooling and reduce complex, bespoke human interfaces.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Consultation

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to provide Technology consultancy services into the business, ensuring right levels of support, coordination, and engagement to analyse business and technical requirements. Act as the senior architecture authority across Engineering, Architecture, BAs, and the Business.
• Work closely with the Business, Directors of Technology, and Technology leads to coordinate successfully defined outcomes to ensure that solution architecture and designs are driven fundamentally by validated business processes and requirements.
• Communicate business architecture concepts and strategies to executive leadership and other stakeholders.