Join our team as an Enterprise Data Architect to drive strategic data initiatives and align IT infrastructure with business goals. You’ll define target data architectures, establish policies, and ensure IT investments support long-term business objectives. Responsibilities include solution design, technology assessments, risk mitigation, and collaboration with business leaders and IT teams. You’ll shape enterprise-wide data strategies, govern architectural changes, and implement frameworks for secure, scalable data processing. Ideal for experienced professionals with expertise in data architecture, IT strategy, and technical leadership. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication, and the ability to balance long-term vision with immediate needs.

 

 

The purpose of the Enterprise data Architect role is to:

o Ensure that the organization’s IT strategy supports its business goals and objectives.

o Create and maintain architecture views that describe the current and future state of the enterprise.

o Develop data technology vision to fulfil business ambition & reduce costs.

o Define target data architecture and agreed data roadmaps.

o Communicate future IT architecture to sponsors and secure roadmap investment.

o Establish policies and standards to ensure that IT investments and projects align with the overall architecture and business strategy.

o Assess new technologies in the data, data science and reporting and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.

o Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and other stakeholders to ensure that architectural decisions meet the needs of the organization

o Analyze, design, plan, and implement enterprise-wide strategies to align IT infrastructure with business goals. Alternatively, implement frameworks and best practices for data collection, storage, processing, and utilization from functional, non-functional, service, and security perspectives; Ensure these efforts progress the overall architecture journey and align with Client’s IT Strategy o Deliver strategic change through solution architecture, delivery, vendors, and partners.

o Lead Solution Architects to ensure solution quality and alignment to roadmaps, principles, and standards.

o Govern change against Architecture standards.

 

Accountabilities:

Nature of Work:

• Solutions and Assurance

o Create solutions and design for projects to meet Client’s standards for technology and ensure they meet our ambitions for availability, security, resilience, and performance.

o Produce design options with associated costs, benefits, and risks to enable investment decisions.

o Work with product owners, architects, platform teams and other project colleagues to agree trade-offs between, long-term and short-term goals.

o Responsible for the integrity of the end-to-end solution across Platforms, including transition states used to achieve the target state.

o Shape and estimate IT initiatives and feature team sprints, ensuring that component parts deliver against business outcomes.

o Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

o Record any solution debt incurred during the transition phase of the solution and address the same in future phases.

o Identify potential risks and challenges associated with proposed solutions.

o Develop mitigation strategies to address identified risks.

o Participate in post-implementation reviews and provide feedback to improve future solution designs.

 

• Technical Leadership o Keep up with technological developments in the digital, integration area and evaluate how well they fit into the company's architecture.

o Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and platforms to support the development and deployment of solutions.