Strategic Enterprise Architect - AI-Driven Platform

Orbis Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis is modernising its core platform, investing in data and AI to help find alpha for clients. As Enterprise Architect you sit at the intersection of investment, business and technology, shaping consequential technology decisions and guiding major work underway.

It is a role with real reach, close enough to the business and investment process to understand what creates edge. We are home to world class talent and are looking for more to define our investment edge.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in business architecture, enterprise architecture or a senior transformation role, with a track record of turning strategy into roadmaps that get delivered, not shelved.
• Led or driven change as a senior architect through a transformation of comparable scale and rigour to Orbis’ platform strategy — a bar on experience, not title.
• Proven experience in asset management or comparable financial services, with strong, current knowledge of the sector’s vendor and technology landscape and a solid grasp of capital markets and financial instruments.
• Strong grounding in business architecture — capability modelling, target operating models, value stream mapping — applied pragmatically.
• Track record driving adoption of architecture standards across organisations and operating within a federated model that balances enterprise direction with local context.
• Strong influencing and facilitation skills, credible with business and investment leadership and other senior stakeholders.
• Structured and analytical, able to drive outcomes through influence rather than authority.

Responsibilities

• Own Orbis’ business capability maps, target-state views and enterprise roadmap, and drive their adoption across the change book so programmes build toward one destination, not several.
• Contribute to the architecture principles, standards and guardrails set at enterprise level and hold the function and the business to delivering against them — not just publishing them.
• Drive alignment with business and investment leadership on platform strategy — incorporating and challenging their requirements until decisions are made, not just heard.
• Translate enterprise direction into pillar-facing guidance with the Pillar Architects, and drive it through to delivery, keeping direction and delivery reality connected.
• Drive vendor RFPs and technology assessments to a decision, bringing a business architecture lens and a working view of the asset management vendor and technology landscape.
• Flag business architecture gaps, blockers and dependencies early, and drive them to resolution before they become delivery problems.
• Drive the adoption of AI in how the function designs and evolves systems, pushing where it changes ways of working, not just assessing it.

Skills

Business architecture

Enterprise architecture

Transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Capital markets knowledge

Job description

Orbis is modernising its core platform, investing in data and AI to help find alpha for clients. As Enterprise Architect you sit at the intersection of investment, business and technology, shaping consequential technology decisions and guiding major work underway.

It is a role with real reach, close enough to the business and investment process to understand what creates edge. We are home to world class talent and are looking for more to define our investment edge.