Strategic IT Architect: Enterprise Architecture & Cloud

Mobile Broadband Network Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL) is seeking an IT Architect to provide architectural oversight across technology domains, services, programmes, and change initiatives.

Working under the Lead Enterprise Architect, the role helps ensure technology solutions are secure, scalable, interoperable, cost effective, appropriately governed, and aligned with MBNL’s business strategy, operating model, and long term digital ambitions.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise, solution, or technology architecture roles.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, integration architectures, APIs, data platforms.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, including presenting to senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and suppliers to align technology solutions to business goals.
• Support the development and evolution of enterprise architecture across business, application, data, and technology domains.
• Support technology strategy, portfolio planning, roadmaps, and investment decisions through architectural insight and understanding of industry frameworks.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Provide architecture assurance and challenge solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Apply security, resilience, integration, data governance, and privacy principles throughout solution designs.
• Support architecture governance forums and provide recommendations on risks, trade offs, and opportunities.
• Review and question supplier architecture deliverables and design quality.
• Monitor emerging technologies and best practices and recommend innovation opportunities that deliver business value.
• Support the definition of supplier contracts and the management of suppliers in-life.
• Work with Cyber-Security, Data, Digital Enablement, Operations, and Delivery teams to turn business demand into effective technology change.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Clear business communication

Supplier management

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

TOGAF/OpenCA/BCS qualifications

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL) is seeking an IT Architect to provide architectural oversight across technology domains, services, programmes, and change initiatives.

Working under the Lead Enterprise Architect, the role helps ensure technology solutions are secure, scalable, interoperable, cost effective, appropriately governed, and aligned with MBNL’s business strategy, operating model, and long term digital ambitions.