Principal Architect - Networks, Security & Cloud

Construction; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

15% bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Construction seeks an experienced Principal/Enterprise Architect to lead strategic technology direction for a major customer in a highly regulated sector. You will shape enterprise architecture, define multi-year strategy, and develop roadmaps across Networking, Security, UC, Contact Centre and Cloud.

You will advise senior and CIO-level stakeholders and provide governance across architectural domains. The role requires credible technical leadership, exposure to TOGAF/MBSE/ITIL/DevOps, and

Qualifications

• Proven Enterprise Architecture experience in regulated environments.
• Technical credibility beyond pure governance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement at CIO level.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-year technology and solution roadmaps across Networking, Security, UC, Contact Centre and Cloud.
• Provide governance and mitigate technical risks at enterprise level.
• Provide technical leadership across virtual architecture, engineering and delivery teams.
• Balance customer requirements with technical quality and commercial objectives.

Skills

Enterprise Networking

Cybersecurity

Unified Communications

Contact Centre tech

Cloud platforms

TOGAF/MBSE/ITIL/DevOps

Tools

Cisco

Palo Alto

Microsoft Teams

Avaya

Genesys

Terraform

NetBrain

Job description

We're recruiting for an experienced Principal/Enterprise Architect to take a senior technical leadership role supporting a major customer operating within a highly regulated environment.

This is a strategic, customer-facing position where you'll work closely with senior stakeholders, including CIO level contacts, to shape enterprise architecture, define multi-year technology strategy and develop roadmaps across a complex technology estate.

You'll take ownership of the overall technology direction for the customer, bringing together business priorities, technology strategy and architectural governance.

Key responsibilities

• Developing multi-year technology and solution roadmaps across Networking, Security, Unified Communications, Contact Centre and Cloud.
• Acting as a trusted technical adviser to senior and C-suite stakeholders.
• Providing enterprise-level architectural governance and identifying and mitigating technical risks.
• Providing technical leadership across virtual architecture, engineering and delivery teams.
• Working closely with commercial and delivery teams to ensure solutions balance customer requirements, technical quality and commercial objectives.

What we're looking for

You should have strong Enterprise Architecture experience but importantly, we're looking for someone with genuine technical credibility rather than a pure process or governance-led EA background.

• Enterprise Networking, including WAN, LAN, Wi-Fi, SD-WAN and network segmentation
• Cybersecurity, including Zero Trust, IAM, SASE, Firewalls and secure access
• Unified Communications and collaboration technologies
• Contact Centre technologies
• Public or private Cloud, including Azure, AWS or GCP

Exposure to technologies such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Microsoft Teams, Avaya, Genesys, Terraform or NetBrain would be advantageous.

Experience of architecture or service methodologies such as TOGAF, MBSE, ITIL or DevOps would also be beneficial, alongside previous experience working within banking, financial services, government, critical national infrastructure or another highly regulated environment.

In return, you will be rewarded with ongoing career development, car allowance, 15% bonus and an enviable benefits package. Opportunities also exist in Birmingham and London.