Strategic Data & AI Enterprise Architect | Hybrid

Skipton Building Society Group; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Pension contribution (matched)

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing app

Cycle‑to‑work scheme

Flexible working

Gym membership discounts

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is hiring an experienced architect to shape how data, AI and technology enable the future of the organisation. You’ll work across business and technology to connect strategic ambitions with capabilities, information, applications and technology across the enterprise.

You’ll lead data and AI architectural direction, develop target architectures, roadmaps and governance, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate strategy into pragmatic, value-driven outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in enterprise, data, solution or domain architecture within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, including information architecture, data platforms, integration, governance, analytics and data management.
• Understanding AI architecture and its implications, with curiosity to keep developing your expertise as technology evolves.
• Broad technology knowledge beyond Data and AI, enabling you to understand relationship with applications, integration, cloud, cyber security, infrastructure and engineering.
• Experience creating target architectures, principles, capability models and transition roadmaps.
• Ability to turn complex problems into clear models, options and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, with confidence to challenge constructively and shape the next steps.

Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise-wide Data and AI architecture, establishing principles, target states and strategic guardrails.
• Connect business strategy and customer outcomes to the data, information and AI capabilities needed to support them.
• Develop a coherent view of current and target architecture, identifying gaps, duplication, dependencies, risks and opportunities for simplification, and turn these into practical transition roadmaps.
• Help shape the responsible adoption of emerging AI capabilities, including generative AI and intelligent automation, focused on genuine customer and business value.
• Work across business, data, technology, security, risk and change communities so Data and AI decisions are considered in the context of the whole enterprise.
• Provide enterprise context and strategic direction to Solution, Platform, Data and Security Architects, while maintaining clear ownership between enterprise direction and solution or platform design.
• Use architecture and capability modelling, emerging technology insight and governance to inform investment choices, priorities and options.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Data Architecture

AI Architecture

Solution Architecture

Data Governance

Cloud & Security

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Job description

Skipton Building Society is hiring an experienced architect to shape how data, AI and technology enable the future of the organisation. You’ll work across business and technology to connect strategic ambitions with capabilities, information, applications and technology across the enterprise.

You’ll lead data and AI architectural direction, develop target architectures, roadmaps and governance, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to translate strategy into pragmatic, value-driven outcomes.