ITV

Principal Enterprise Architect

ITV

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Develop target state architectures and transition plans to achieve the organisation's strategic goals and to develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts and roadmaps
  • Document and communicate as-is and target-state views in forms that are understandable and useful to a range of business and technology audiences.
  • Develop and maintain the organisation's enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring alignment with objectives, Identifying new technologies which can make a material impact on the sector and add competitive advantage
  • Lead and enable decision making processes that enable value, change and growth across the business.
  • Develop, coach and communicate architectural thinking across technology, to embed best practise across the organisation.
  • Develop and manage members of the team from junior to senior roles.
  • Design and develop policies, standards, guidelines, roadmaps, and strategy that affect the selection, design, development, implementation, maintenance and use of technology within the organisation.
  • Work with the Enterprise Architecture team and wider technology domains and architecture groups to map and document logical architectures, service boundaries and workflows.
  • Liaise with divisional technical design groups to ensure proposed designs remain within organisational guidelines, standards and architectural principles.
  • Conduct current state assessments and identify gaps and opportunities for improvement in business processes and systems.
  • Collaborate on high-level and detailed designs for new solutions and enhancements to existing systems, using C4 and other modelling approaches where appropriate.
  • Review system designs and recommend improvements based on defined principles and standards.
  • Take a leading role in defining and maintaining a group-wide Business Capability model and in modelling the relationships between business capabilities, applications and organisational structures.
  • Work in a service-led manner to identify gaps, dependencies and opportunities for improvement across domains.
  • Work closely with technology leads within each domain on architectural decisions and directional themes toward future state.
  • Collaborate on the creation of value chain maps and other situational awareness artefacts to explore options, dependencies and strategic contribution.
  • Identify and analyse opportunities to improve business and technology workflows through workflow orchestration, automation and Intelligent Automation practices.
  • Support the design and documentation of automation patterns spanning business process automation, system-to-system orchestration, AI-assisted workflows and operational control points.
  • Help assess feasibility and implementation considerations for modern workflow and Intelligent Automation initiatives, including integration, data quality, monitoring, resilience, supportability, security and governance.

Requirements

  • Proven ability to lead design authority meetings with senior stakeholders and translate high-level requirements into tangible designs, models and decision options.
  • Knowledge of Enterprise Platforms and how they fit in the context of enterprise architecture and domain reference models.
  • Confidence to lead meetings with stakeholders, management, and individual contributors and very good written and verbal communication, presentation, service and technical writing skills
  • Strong skills in enterprise architecture modelling and documentation, using C4 and other appropriate modelling tools and techniques.
  • Experience working with technology departments and software-based solution design and analysis, with a solid understanding of systems and interfaces.
  • Ability to capture, document and communicate complex technical and workflow concepts clearly to multiple levels of audience.
  • Understanding of workflow design, process analysis and implementation considerations for workflow automation or Intelligent Automation in enterprise environments.
Benefits
  • Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
  • Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
  • Annual bonus opportunity
  • Competitive pension contribution
  • Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
  • Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise architectureworkflow automationprocess analysisC4 modelingsystem designtechnical writingbusiness capability modelingworkflow orchestrationautomation patternsdata quality
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationpresentationcollaborationcoachingdecision makingstakeholder managementservice orientationanalytical thinkingproblem solving