Principal Enterprise Architect

• 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

Technologies:

• Architect
• ArchiMate
• Cloud
• Security
• TOGAF

• 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

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.