Lead Enterprise Architect

Summary: The Lead Enterprise Architect will play a crucial role in a high-profile transformation project, focusing on modernizing legacy systems into scalable, cloud-first platforms. This position requires extensive architectural expertise and strong stakeholder engagement to align technology solutions with business priorities. The role involves defining enterprise architecture strategy and leading the transformation of critical revenue and customer platforms. The successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary leadership environment to drive innovation and improve customer experience through advanced technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the enterprise architecture strategy
• Develop current, interim, and target state architecture blueprints across core domains
• Lead transformation of Legacy billing, revenue management, and campaign platforms
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices architectures
• Enable improved customer experience through modern digital platforms
• Establish and maintain clear architecture roadmaps from current to target state
• Champion governance frameworks ensuring compliance, scalability, and sustainability
• Define and enforce standards across data, AI/ML, identity, and integration
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions
• Lead architectural decision-making including vendor selection and build vs buy strategies
• Produce high-quality architecture artefacts and conduct design assurance reviews
• Design platforms supporting high-volume, Real Time and batch processing environments
• Enable advanced data capabilities including analytics, modelling, and virtualisation
• Support machine learning and AI adoption with appropriate governance and controls
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data, and Delivery teams to realise strategy
• Influence senior stakeholders and align technology solutions to business objectives
• Lead proof-of-concepts to evaluate emerging technologies and innovation opportunities
• Ensure architectures deliver high availability, resilience, and security at scale
• Support systems handling millions of transactions and customer interactions daily
• Drive transition to domain-oriented, platform-based architecture models
• Mentor and guide architects and technical teams to uplift capability
• Embed best practices in architecture frameworks (eg TOGAF) and delivery approaches
• Promote standardisation while balancing flexibility across distributed teams

Key Skills:

• Deep architectural expertise in enterprise architecture
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience with cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices architectures
• Ability to translate business priorities into technology solutions
• Experience in developing architecture blueprints and roadmaps
• Knowledge of governance frameworks and compliance standards
• Proficiency in data architecture and advanced analytics capabilities
• Experience in mentoring and guiding technical teams
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

Salary (Rate): £625 per day

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT