Principal Enterprise Architect

Government Recruitment Service; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect in Birmingham to provide leadership on enterprise architecture strategy and governance. You will shape architecture across business, data, and technology domains and ensure alignment with organisational objectives.

You will collaborate with solution, security, and delivery teams to drive architecture roadmaps, cloud strategies, and assurance activities, enabling resilient and value-driven digital services.

Qualifications

• Senior authority on enterprise architecture with governance responsibilities.
• Ability to translate strategy into technology roadmaps and architecture designs.
• Experience leading cross-disciplinary architecture discussions and decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain enterprise-wide architecture design framework across business, data, and technology domains.
• Maintain architecture standards and design principles including TOGAF and government Technology Code of Practice.
• Lead architecture governance processes, including design reviews and enterprise assurance.
• Translate organisational strategy into technology roadmaps and long-term capability plans.
• Oversee cloud and platform architecture to ensure cost‑effective, secure delivery.
• Define architecture lifecycle processes from concept to retirement with independent design assurance.
• Provide architectural leadership to multidisciplinary teams and support senior leaders in tech strategy decisions.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture governance

Roadmapping

Cloud architecture

Tools

TOGAF

Job description

For nearly 150 years, we've protected the UK economy with deep expertise and rigour, building the confidence that helps businesses access lending, investment and opportunity.

We help people deal with personal insolvency. We make statutory redundancy payments when insolvent employers can't. We investigate director conduct and take action where it's needed.

And right now, we're changing how we do all of this, becoming faster, more digitally driven, and more focused on stopping problems before they escalated.

More than 2,000 of us work in offices across England, Scotland and Wales. It might be time for you to join us.

Principal Enterprise Architect

We offer full-time, part-time, job share, and flexible working. We invest in your development and give our people the space to grow, take ownership and make decisions.

Reporting to the Head of Data & Technology, you will join the team as a senior authority on enterprise architecture.

You will provide architectural leadership, governance and strategic oversight across our platforms, services and technology domains. You will take responsibility for the design integrity and development of our Enterprise Architecture (EA), ensuring that technology decisions align with organisational objectives.

Working closely with the Principal Data Architect, solution architects, security architects, delivery teams, service operations and outsourced partners, you will help ensure that architecture decisions support long-term strategic capability, operational resilience and value for money.

What you'll do (Responsibilities)

• own and maintain the enterprise-wide architecture design framework across business, application, data and technology domains
• maintain architecture standards and design principles, ensuring that solutions comply with frameworks such as the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) and align with the UK government’s Technology Code of Practice
• operate architecture governance processes, including design review boards and enterprise assurance
• translate organisational strategy into technology and architecture roadmaps
• oversee cloud and platform architecture
• define architecture lifecycle processes from concept through design, implementation and retirement, and provide independent design assurance for complex programmes and digital services
• provide architectural leadership across multidisciplinary teams and support senior leaders with technology strategy discussions and decision-making.

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Company: Government Recruitment Service
Salary: £72,113 to £72,113 a year
Hours: Full-time
Location: Birmingham
Job type: Permanent
Posting date: 20 Oct 2026
Closing date: 2 Nov 2026