Senior Enterprise Technical Architect

Nest Corporation; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nest Corporation is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to shape technology strategy and target-state architecture. You will influence architecture governance, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and guide delivery across large-scale change programs within a regulated environment.

The role offers hybrid working from Canary Wharf with occasional travel to Peterborough to support collaboration and governance across partners and operations.

Qualifications

• Five years or more experience shaping technology strategy and target-state architecture in complex organisations.
• Translate business priorities into technology capabilities to support transformation.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and third-party partners.
• Lead architectural governance and guide decision making across large-scale change initiatives.
• Take a pragmatic, collaborative approach balancing long-term vision with delivery realities.

Responsibilities

• Influence technology strategy and architecture across Nest Corporation.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to turn ambitious goals into practical outcomes.
• Lead governance and key technology decisions for major change programs.

Skills

Experience in enterprise architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Architectural governance

Strategic thinking

Collaborative leadership

Job description

Role Overview

Please note this role offers hybrid working at our Canary Wharf office 1-2 days per week, with travel to our administration partner in Peterborough around 1-2 times per month to support collaboration, service oversight and key operational activities.

It's a great time to join Nest. As we continue to evolve our technology landscape, we're strengthening our Technology Strategy and Architecture team to help shape the future of the organisation. These newly created roles offer the opportunity to influence how technology supports our long-term strategy, helping define the capabilities, architecture and partnerships that will enable us to be more agile, deliver meaningful change and better serve the millions of members who rely on us.

You’ll work across business and technology teams, collaborating with stakeholders and strategic delivery partners to turn ambitious goals into practical outcomes. This is a role for someone who enjoys influencing rather than directing, bringing people together to solve complex challenges and helping organisations navigate the journey from where they are today to where they want to be in the future. In return, you’ll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact, shape a growing function and play a key role in defining Nest's technology direction.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

• Bring a minimum of five years' experience working in enterprise architecture, helping shape technology strategy, target-state architecture and roadmaps within complex organisations.
• Translate business priorities and customer needs into technology capabilities that support transformation and deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and third-party partners, using influence, collaboration and constructive challenge to help shape technology direction and achieve the best outcomes.
• Lead architectural governance and guide technology decision making across large scale change initiatives.
• Take a pragmatic and collaborative approach, balancing long term vision with delivery realities, organisational priorities and customer needs.

Experience in a customer facing environment is essential, and experience within financial services or another regulated sector would be beneficial. You’ll be comfortable helping shape technology direction, establishing standards and guiding strategic technology decisions in a complex environment.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share

Directorate/Department Overview

The Nest Technology Strategy and Architecture team sits within our Services and Solutions department with responsibilities covering technology, change management, operations, data analytics and customer insights.

The Technology Strategy and Architecture team is responsible for setting the strategy for our technology capabilities, working with our delivery partners to realise the strategy, ensuring the cyber security of the capabilities and delivering a best in class corporate IT service to the rest of the enterprise.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you're applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.