Senior Architect, Enterprise

Carnival UK (P&O Cruises & Cunard); Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discounts

Annual bonus

Car allowance

Pension scheme

Private medical & dental

25 days leave

Occupational health

Life Assurance

Discount portal

Job summary

Carnival UK is recruiting a Senior Enterprise Architect to guide our enterprise architecture during a pivotal digital transformation. The role demands shaping future-state architectures, influencing strategic technology investments, and aligning diverse teams across legacy and modern platforms.

You will collaborate with business partners and DTOs to ensure architectures drive business value while remaining aligned with long-term strategy. Hybrid working up to two days from home is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering enterprise architecture across business, application and data domains.
• Proven track record shaping roadmaps and target-state architectures for large transformations.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide strategic technology directions.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of Carnival UK business models and shape roadmaps toward a unified future-state architecture.
• Influence technology investments by defining strategic roadmaps and target-state architectures across transformation initiatives.
• Work with solution architects and delivery teams to ensure designs align to EA standards and reduce technical debt.
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate ambitions into scalable architectural outcomes.
• Lead major transformation initiatives across legacy, modern and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions.
• Conduct architecture reviews to assess alignment with strategy and planning.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder influence

Roadmap planning

Architecture governance

Legacy to modern tech

Job description

Job Description

Carnival UK is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to join us at a pivotal moment in our digital transformation journey.

Job Description

Carnival UK is looking for a Senior Enterprise Architect to join us at a pivotal moment in our digital transformation journey.

As home to some of the world’s most iconic travel brands, we are continuing to evolve the technology landscape that supports our guests, colleagues and long-term business ambitions. Our transformation journey is already well underway, with major strategic investment programmes, evolving business priorities, and an increasingly complex mix of legacy, modern and emerging technology capabilities.

As part of our Enterprise Architecture community, you’ll play a key role in shaping our future-state architecture, guiding strategic technology decisions and helping simplify a complex and changing environment. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, business partners, solution architects, delivery teams and technology leaders to ensure our architecture enables business value, supports innovation and remains aligned to our long-term strategy.

This is a role for someone who enjoys working at enterprise level, can bring clarity to complexity, and is confident influencing across a broad and evolving stakeholder landscape.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of the different business models operating across Carnival UK and help shape roadmaps that move us towards a commonly agreed future-state architecture.
• Influence technology investment decisions and future business capabilities by defining strategic roadmaps and target-state architectures across key transformation initiatives.
• Work with Solution Architects and delivery teams to ensure designs align to the overall Enterprise Architecture, while identifying opportunities to reduce technical debt and simplify the technology landscape.
• Partner with business stakeholders and DTO Business Partners early in the conversation to ensure business ambitions translate into scalable, sustainable and strategically aligned architectural outcomes.
• Help guide major transformation activity across a landscape that includes legacy platforms, modern digital capabilities, large-scale programme delivery and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions.
• Conduct architecture reviews and audits to assess compliance with strategy, standards and principles, identifying end-of-life or near end-of-life capabilities and supporting longer-term planning.
• Lead through influence across architecture, engineering, delivery and business teams, building alignment and collaboration without direct line management responsibility.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK06 and is offered on a full-time, permanent basis. We offer hybrid working, including up to two days from home.

Your Expertise

To thrive as an Enterprise Architect, we're looking for someone with:

• Strong experience developing and managing enterprise architecture across business, application and data domains within a complex business environment.
• A demonstrable background delivering large-scale, multi-project roadmaps throughout the development lifecycle to drive transformation and change.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and shape strategic technology direction within complex organisations.
• Experience evaluating and integrating emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions, ensuring innovation aligns to enterprise strategy, governance and architectural principles.
• The ability to balance immediate delivery priorities with longer-term architectural vision and future-state design.
• A passion for simplifying technology landscapes while enabling innovation, transformation and sustainable business growth.

About You

• You are a strategic thinker who thrives in complexity and enjoys turning ambiguity into clear, practical direction.
• You'll be someone who can build strong relationships, listen carefully to business priorities and confidently guide stakeholders towards the right architectural outcomes.
• You'll be comfortable working across a changing environment where business priorities, technology choices and transformation activity are all evolving at pace.

You’ll bring

• Excellent consultation and influencing skills, with the ability to guide and challenge stakeholders constructively.
• The confidence to lead through influence, building alignment across architecture, delivery, engineering and business teams.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across a community of Enterprise Architects and wider technology specialists.
• Adaptability and curiosity, with the ability to quickly grasp new concepts, technologies and business challenges.

Why Join Us?

Working with us is about more than a job. It’s about helping create unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests while building a fulfilling career for yourself.

Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing and includes:

• Employee discounted cruising plus friends and family offers
• Annual bonus
• Car allowance
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
• Minimum 25 days' leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• In-house Occupational Health support and access to a digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Discounted retail and leisure via our discounts portal

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About Us

Holidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.

No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard.

Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.

Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose.

Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.

It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.