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Requirements
Must:
- 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
- Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, tools, and patterns
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- In-depth understanding of systems architecture, performance, resilience, and scalability
- Awareness of modern delivery approaches including agile, cloud platforms, and digital services
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent architecture certification - desirable but not essential
Responsibilities
- 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
Description
We are a large, highly regulated UK organisation undergoing a significant business and technology transformation. Our technology landscape has evolved from a single outsourced provider to a complex multi-supplier environment, necessitating strong architectural leadership. This is a hybrid role based in Blackpool, where you will be required to work onsite 2 days a week. We offer a competitive salary between £79,000 - £85,000, along with a generous 28% pension contribution and additional bonuses. We are seeking a credible and approachable individual who can effectively operate at senior levels across both business and technology.
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How many Software Architect jobs are in the UK?
Currently, there are 3200 Architect openings. Check also: Cloud jobs, Security jobs, ElasticSearch jobs - all with salary brackets.
Is the UK a good place for Software Architects?
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Which companies are hiring for Software Architect jobs in the UK?
Openda Ltd, Bluefruit Software Limited, The Scouts Association, City of Lincoln Council, Mas & Pas Limited, Wren, Rebus Recruitment among others, are currently hiring for Architect roles in the UK.
The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 99 different Software Architect jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Software Architects.
The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 99 different Software Architect jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Software Architects.