Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect
Permanent
Location: Home / London (Hybrid)
Salary: 82000 - 92000 ( 28% pension contribution bonus)

Overview

Were supporting a large highly regulated UK organisation undergoing a significant business and technology transformation.

The technology landscape has recently evolved from a single outsourced provider to a complex multi-supplier environment creating the need for strong architectural leadership to provide clarity coherence and direction across the enterprise.

This is a senior influential role for an experienced Principal Enterprise Architect who can take ownership of the enterprise architecture blueprint bring disparate elements together and ensure suppliers and internal teams are aligned to agreed standards and outcomes.

This is a hybrid role and you will be required to work onsite in Central London 2 days a week.

The Role

Reporting into senior technology leadership the Principal Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role in shaping and governing enterprise-wide architecture across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning and maintaining the enterprise architecture blueprint ensuring alignment to business strategy and transformation objectives
• Providing a holistic enterprise-wide architectural view across applications data infrastructure cloud and digital platforms
• Acting as a senior architectural authority influencing and constructively challenging third-party suppliers in a multi-vendor environment
• Ensuring architectural designs meet regulatory security resilience and scalability requirements
• Leading and developing a small enterprise architecture team (circa 4 people)
• Defining and embedding architecture principles standards patterns and governance
• Supporting major business and digital transformation programmes
• Working closely with senior stakeholders to translate strategic goals into deliverable sustainable technical designs

This role requires someone who is credible well-presented approachable and confident operating at senior levels across both business and technology.

Experience Required

Essential

• Significant experience operating as a senior or principal enterprise architect
• Experience working in a highly regulated or compliant environment
• Strong background in outsourced and multi-supplier technology landscapes
• Proven experience influencing delivery across multiple third-party suppliers
• Demonstrable involvement in large-scale business or digital transformation initiatives
• Experience spanning data centre cloud digital platforms and emerging technologies

Desirable

• Exposure to core banking platforms such as Sopra Banking Software or comparable large-scale enterprise systems
• Background within financial services though candidates from other highly regulated sectors are also welcome

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks tools and patterns
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining practical and outcome-focused
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Confident leader with experience developing high-performing teams
• In-depth understanding of systems architecture performance resilience and scalability
• Awareness of modern delivery approaches including agile cloud platforms and digital services

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or equivalent experience
• TOGAF ArchiMate or equivalent architecture certification desirable but not essential