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The Senior Enterprise Architect is responsible for shaping the long-term technology vision and strategy of the organisation, ensuring that the overall enterprise architecture evolves in alignment with business objectives, industry trends, and emerging opportunities. This role emphasizes strategic foresight, governance, and standardisation to create a cohesive, sustainable, and adaptable technology landscape across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect works across business units and technology domains to establish architectural principles, frameworks, and standards that guide solution design and delivery. This includes defining target-state architectures, developing roadmaps for transformation, and ensuring technology investments contribute to enterprise-wide agility, resilience, and innovation. This position requires a balance of strategic leadership and technical breadth, with a focus on guiding the enterprise toward a future-ready architecture that supports scalability, security, sustainability, and continuous business transformation.
Job Responsibility:
Support and maintain the organisation’s enterprise architecture vision, principles, and frameworks that guide technology decisions across the enterprise
Ensure existing governance processes are followed to ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, business strategy, and long-term technology roadmaps
Develop and maintain target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for key business domains
Drive architectural standardisation, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reusability across the enterprise portfolio
Partner with executives, business leaders, and platform owners to translate corporate strategy into enterprise-wide technology capabilities
Influence strategic planning by identifying how technology can enable new business models, improve competitiveness, and drive transformation
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing thought leadership on digital trends, enterprise technology strategy, and risk management
Facilitate business and Digital alignment through enterprise-wide workshops, roadmapping sessions, and stakeholder engagement
Review and update enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and interoperability models to ensure seamless information flow across the organization
Oversee the design of cross-domain capabilities (e.g., identity management, data platforms, API ecosystems) that enable enterprise-wide reuse and agility
Ensure the technology ecosystem supports innovation, operational excellence, and strategic business outcomes across all functions
Ensure architectural controls and guardrails are used effectively to mitigate enterprise-level risks, including security, regulatory, and operational risks
Ensure enterprise architecture incorporates compliance with global and regional regulations (e.g., data privacy, cybersecurity)
Embed sustainability and ESG considerations into enterprise technology strategy (e.g., cloud efficiency, carbon footprint reduction)
Anticipate and manage systemic risks arising from technology concentration, vendor dependency, or critical system failures
Lead architecture reviews for major programs and portfolios, ensuring long-term alignment and resilience
Support transformation initiatives by shaping architectural blueprints, guiding change adoption, and enabling scalability
Champion enterprise agility by promoting modular architectures, cloud-native adoption, and ecosystem partnerships
Establish and promote architectural practices, playbooks, and reference models to elevate architectural maturity across the enterprise
Mentor solution and domain architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and architectural excellence
Lead internal forums, councils, or architecture boards to align stakeholders and disseminate best practices
Drive continuous improvement of enterprise architecture processes, methodologies, and tools
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
advanced degree preferred
10+ years of experience in senior technology roles, with at least 5 years in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture leadership
Proven track record of defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, standards, and reference models
Extensive experience with enterprise-level systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), integration strategies, and digital transformation initiatives
Broad understanding of business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, and how they interconnect at an enterprise scale
Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API ecosystems, data governance, and interoperability standards
Deep understanding of risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations across complex organizations
Exceptional strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to connect technology decisions to long-term business outcomes
Outstanding communication and influence skills, capable of engaging executives, business leaders, and technical stakeholders
Nice to have:
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field