Laing O'Rourke
Platform Architect - Integration
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Platform Architect – Integration
Shape the future of enterprise integration
Location: Dartford
Our IT Function
Laing O'Rourke's IT function has renewed its strategy to support the company's ambition to transform the construction industry, making it more sustainable, more productive, and fit for the future.
Technology has a critical role to play in achieving this ambition. Our focus is on applying digital capability in ways that genuinely matter, shaping how complex projects are delivered, how decisions are made, and how innovation improves outcomes for people, communities, and the environment.
Our mission is clear: to create a modern and resilient technology environment where trusted data informs every decision, AI enhances every process, and digital capability enables the organisation to operate with greater scale and productivity.
To deliver this, we are building a different kind of IT function, one that is trusted by the business, forward looking in its thinking, and deeply connected to operational outcomes. We are looking for individuals who are curious, thoughtful, and motivated by contributing to work that has real industry impact.
The Role
As the Platform Architect for Integration, you will provide architectural leadership for our integration domain, ensuring platforms, standards, and roadmaps are aligned with enterprise architecture principles and business priorities. You will help drive platform evolution, promote reusable integration patterns, and support the delivery of secure, high-performing technology solutions across the organisation.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the integration platform architecture to meet current and future business needs.
- Align platform roadmaps with enterprise architecture and wider technology strategy.
- Establish standards, patterns, and best practices that improve consistency and maintainability.
- Manage and reduce technical debt to support long-term platform sustainability.
- Provide architectural guidance through design reviews, governance activities, and solution assurance.
- Develop architecture roadmaps, blueprints, and reference architectures.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and support strategic investment decisions.
Essential Requirements
- Experience in platform, solution, or enterprise architecture roles within complex cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of architecture principles, governance, and design patterns.
- Experience designing secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
- Experience across technology design, delivery, and optimisation.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Ability to balance long-term strategy with practical delivery needs.
- Experience managing technical debt and driving continuous improvement.
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Desirable Requirements
- Large-scale cloud transformation or integration modernisation experience.
- Knowledge of hybrid integration across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.
- Understanding of data architecture, event-driven platforms, and integration patterns.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
- Understanding of agile delivery models and product-oriented ways of working.
- Experience contributing to architecture governance forums.
About Laing O'Rourke
Laing O'Rourke is an international engineering and construction business known for pushing boundaries in digital engineering, modern methods of construction and sustainable delivery. With more than 150 years of heritage, we are committed to creating environments in which diverse teams can excel and thrive.
Accessibility & Inclusion
We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme. If you meet the essential criteria and would like to be considered through our Offer an Interview scheme, please let us know. We are also happy to provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. If you require an alternative format of this advert or need support during the application, please contact: resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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