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# Enterprise Architect (Bristol)

- **Company:** AND Digital
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Digital Architecture, Software Engineering, Event Driven Architecture
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=57c4cb1a53dafb04

## About the Role

Do you have a valid Architects Registration Board Registration license?, Do you have experience in Software development?

## Description

AND Digital requires additional Enterprise Architecture (EA) capacity to support the stand-up and early operation of a maturing Architecture Function. Our client is undergoing significant transformation, with 21 major programmes operating concurrently. We currently require additional architectural breadth, governance discipline, and enterprise-level decision-making capability necessary to underpin safe, scalable and coherent change initiatives.

This role provides end-to-end architectural leadership across business, application, data and technology domains. The EA will lead design authority activities, develop target architectures, identify cross-programme dependencies, establish architectural principles, shape AND Digital's long-term technology strategy, and ensure programme-level design coherence.
Skillset Requirements

The following skillsets are essential:

 * Enterprise Architecture (business, application, data, technology)
 * Architecture governance, design decision facilitation, and ARB operation
 * Technology strategy definition and roadmap creation
 * Architectural modelling, documentation, and standards creation
 * Cloud (AWS/Azure) and modern digital platform architecture
 * Integration, API-led design, and event-driven architectures
 * Data and information architecture, supporting regulatory and business requirements

Experience in the following domains is highly desirable:

 * Financial Services architecture
 * Large-scale transformation delivery
 * Operating model design and capability maturity assessments
 * Customer, product, finance and risk domain knowledge

Key Responsibilities

 * Operating and maturing AND Digital's Architecture Review Board (ARB)
 * Leading development of the As-Is and To-Be architecture
 * Producing a strategic enterprise roadmap aligned to transformation objectives
 * Rapidly assessing design questions and providing authoritative recommendations
 * Coaching newly hired architects to uplift capability
 * Documenting enterprise-level decisions and architecture standards

Delivery Model

New team members will join the AND Digital Architecture Function to:

 * Provide immediate architectural leadership across priority programmes
 * Produce the enterprise architecture baseline and target state
 * Support prioritisation and decision-making in partnership with the iPMO
 * Deliver structured design artefacts and governance models
 * Build internal architectural capability through coaching and knowledge transfer


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