Enterprise Architect

BSI

. Shaping and maintaining a coherent, enterprise-wide architectural direction .

Posted 4/22/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shaping and maintaining a coherent, enterprise-wide architectural direction
Translating business strategy, operating model evolution and technology change into clear architectural intent
Acting as a primary architectural communication and alignment conduit between Solution Architecture, Domain Architecture and the wider IT function
Ensuring shared understanding of enterprise intent
Making cross-domain implications explicit
Enabling consistent, informed decisions across portfolios and initiatives
Providing architectural stewardship, governance and advisory support
Promoting sustainable, benefit-driven change while avoiding siloed or short-term optimisation
Defining, maintaining, and evolving enterprise-wide architecture principles, standards, and patterns
Developing and maintaining reference architectures and capabilities maps
Establishing and maintaining enterprise-level roadmaps that connect divisional initiatives into a coherent transformation path
Ensuring projects contribute to the long-term target architecture and reduce fragmentation
Guiding portfolio decisions to prioritise initiatives that create enterprise-wide value and shared capability
Delivering enterprise design assurance across programmes and initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need

Previous experience within architecture
Knowledge of platform-based architecture
Data modelling
MDM
Data governance
Integration patterns
API architecture
Experience translating business strategy, operating model change and regulatory drivers into enterprise-level architectural implications and options
Experience designing architecture for major changes including roadmaps and cataloguing
Experience working with executive leadership and programme boards in complex, matrixed organisations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
Proven ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders without direct authority
Ability to balance strategic intent with delivery realities, maintaining architectural integrity while enabling progress

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working
27-days annual leave
Paid sick leave
Bank holidays
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pension plan with company contribution
Car allowance (dependent on role)
Income protection
Paid maternity leave
Paid paternity leave
Paid parental leave
Adoption leave
Compassionate leave
Paid bereavement leave
Learning and development opportunities
A wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureplatform-based architecturedata modellingMDMdata governanceintegration patternsAPI architecturearchitectural principlesreference architecturesroadmaps

Soft Skills

communication skillsinfluencingadvising stakeholdersstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationdecision-makingstakeholder managementadaptabilityleadership