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Closing Date
2026-08-17
Job Title: Enterprise Architect - Waste
Location: Durrington (Hybrid)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive depending on skills and experience
About the Role
The Enterprise Architect-Waste proactively and holistically guides business and technology leaders through the formulation and execution of Digital and business strategy. The role ensures business outcomes are supported through coherent, future-focused enterprise architecture across business, information, applications, technology, and operating models.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactive Guidance: The Enterprise Architect builds strong relationships across Product, Platform, Digital, Data, Security, Delivery and Infrastructure, ensuring alignment between strategy and execution.
- Disruptive Forces: The role identifies and assesses disruptive forces, shapes strategic options, develops future-state models, guides innovation, and provides governance and architectural direction to support sustainable digital transformation.
- Clear Direction: A key responsibility is to articulate clear architectural direction and enable cross-functional teams through roadmaps, standards, guardrails, and coaching.
- Senior Advisor: The role acts as a senior advisor, connecting strategy to execution and ensuring architectural integrity, investment clarity, and measurable business value.
- Value Maximization: Overall, the role focuses on maximising the value from our existing investments in technology, in addition to ensuring we invest in the right technology to meet future business needs.
Accountabilities
- Strategic Insight & Future-State Planning:
- Identify and assess disruptive forces, trends, and market changes that impact enterprise strategy.
- Analyse business models, operating models, technology ecosystems, and industry shifts to inform strategic direction.
- Develop future-state and current-state enterprise models using structured, design-driven approaches.
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Strategy to Execution Alignment:
- Translate business strategy into actionable architectural roadmaps.
- Construct technology-enabled business and operating models that provide viable strategic options.
- Provide clear visibility into execution risks, architectural dependencies, and transformation implications.
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Enterprise Engagement & Advisory:
- Build and communicate the EA value proposition, positioning the EA function as an internal strategic consultancy.
- Engage senior business leaders, product owners, and IT leaders to provide context-specific architectural advice.
- Lead cross-functional discussions on risk, strategy, investment decisions, and enterprise-wide impacts.
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Leadership of the Architecture Community:
- Lead and mentor architects across domains to ensure alignment, coherence, and shared architectural principles.
- Work with governance bodies to guide transformation and resolve cross-team conflicts.
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Business Architecture & Decision Support:
- Develop business-architecture artefacts that support strategy-to-execution alignment.
- Identify business drivers and targeted outcomes, producing diagnostic deliverables for investment decisions.
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Enabling Cross-Enterprise Coherence:
- Analyse future-state and current-state capabilities to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
- Define organisational structures, roles, and cultural changes needed for effective digital transformation.
- Collaborate with CIO and IT leadership to shape EA operating models and governance mechanisms.
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External and Industry Insight:
- Assess technological, economic, political, and regulatory trends for strategic relevance.
- Identify innovation opportunities and competitive threats driven by emerging technologies.
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Roadmapping:
- Develop enterprise architecture roadmaps reflecting current-state maturity and future-state needs.
- Lead analysis of the IT landscape to identify deficiencies, optimisation opportunities, and modernisation paths.
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Architecture Governance & Delivery Enablement:
- Define and apply minimal viable architectures, standards, patterns, and guardrails.
- Provide “freedom-in-a-box” to product and delivery teams through clear architectural boundaries.
- Collaborate with delivery and infrastructure teams to ensure consistency and iterative architecture evolution.
Knowledge and Skills
- Architecture Scale: Extensive experience in enterprise architecture in a mature architecture practice.
- Wider Industry: Experience in working across multiple industries in an architecture role.
- Data Driven: Experience in using IT data and external insight to drive decision making and communicate direction.
- Storytelling: Ability to simplify complex problems and scenarios through storytelling and slidewear.
- Strong Knowledge:
- Business models, operating models, and technology ecosystems.
- Technology: Deep understanding of cloud, SaaS, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns.
- Innovation: Strong awareness of emerging technologies, innovation practices, and digital transformation trends.
- Tools: Experience implementing and driving value from application catalogues and EA tooling.
- Stakeholders: Experience working within complex stakeholder landscapes across business and technology.
Qualifications - Desirable
- TOGAF, BCS, or equivalent architecture qualifications.
- Cloud architecture certifications (Azure).
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