Principal Enterprise Architect
<p><b>Salary: £85,000 - 85,000 per year</b></p>
<b>Requirements:</b>
<ul><li>Significant experience operating as a senior or principal enterprise architect</li><li>Experience working in a highly regulated or compliant environment</li><li>Strong background in outsourced and multi-supplier technology landscapes</li><li>Proven experience influencing delivery across multiple third-party suppliers</li><li>Demonstrable involvement in large-scale business or digital transformation initiatives</li><li>Experience spanning data centre, cloud, digital platforms, and emerging technologies</li><li>Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, tools, and patterns</li><li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills</li><li>In-depth understanding of systems architecture, performance, resilience, and scalability</li><li>Awareness of modern delivery approaches including agile, cloud platforms, and digital services</li><li>Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience</li><li>TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent architecture certification - desirable but not essential</li></ul>
<b>Responsibilities:</b>
<ul><li>Owning and maintaining the enterprise architecture blueprint, ensuring alignment to business strategy and transformation objectives</li><li>Providing a holistic, enterprise-wide architectural view across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, and digital platforms</li><li>Acting as a senior architectural authority, influencing and constructively challenging third-party suppliers in a multi-vendor environment</li><li>Ensuring architectural designs meet regulatory, security, resilience, and scalability requirements</li><li>Leading and developing a small enterprise architecture team (circa 4 people)</li><li>Defining and embedding architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance</li><li>Supporting major business and digital transformation programmes</li><li>Working closely with senior stakeholders to translate strategic goals into deliverable, sustainable technical designs</li></ul>
<b>Technologies:</b>
<ul><li>Architect</li><li>ArchiMate</li><li>Cloud</li><li>Security</li><li>TOGAF</li></ul>
<p><b>More:</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>last updated 8 week of 2026</p>
<b>Requirements:</b>
<ul><li>Significant experience operating as a senior or principal enterprise architect</li><li>Experience working in a highly regulated or compliant environment</li><li>Strong background in outsourced and multi-supplier technology landscapes</li><li>Proven experience influencing delivery across multiple third-party suppliers</li><li>Demonstrable involvement in large-scale business or digital transformation initiatives</li><li>Experience spanning data centre, cloud, digital platforms, and emerging technologies</li><li>Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks, tools, and patterns</li><li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills</li><li>In-depth understanding of systems architecture, performance, resilience, and scalability</li><li>Awareness of modern delivery approaches including agile, cloud platforms, and digital services</li><li>Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience</li><li>TOGAF, ArchiMate, or equivalent architecture certification - desirable but not essential</li></ul>
<b>Responsibilities:</b>
<ul><li>Owning and maintaining the enterprise architecture blueprint, ensuring alignment to business strategy and transformation objectives</li><li>Providing a holistic, enterprise-wide architectural view across applications, data, infrastructure, cloud, and digital platforms</li><li>Acting as a senior architectural authority, influencing and constructively challenging third-party suppliers in a multi-vendor environment</li><li>Ensuring architectural designs meet regulatory, security, resilience, and scalability requirements</li><li>Leading and developing a small enterprise architecture team (circa 4 people)</li><li>Defining and embedding architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance</li><li>Supporting major business and digital transformation programmes</li><li>Working closely with senior stakeholders to translate strategic goals into deliverable, sustainable technical designs</li></ul>
<b>Technologies:</b>
<ul><li>Architect</li><li>ArchiMate</li><li>Cloud</li><li>Security</li><li>TOGAF</li></ul>
<p><b>More:</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>last updated 8 week of 2026</p>