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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Enterprise Architect - **Company:** John Lewis Partnership - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £94,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Systems Architecture, Technical Debt, Domain Driven Design - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5803977568 ## About the Role * Financial Services Tech Experience: Direct experience or deep familiarity with the financial services technology domain (JLFS), including navigating strict regulatory decision processes and compliance frameworks. * Active Empathy & Culture Building: Experience fostering a culture of mutual respect and psychological safety when navigating complex integrations, shifting team workflows, or managing external SME relationships. * Team Coaching & Community Growth: A background in coaching, developing, and supporting engineering or architecture communities, promoting technical best practices, and participating in resource planning or talent recruitment. * Domain-Driven Design (DDD) & Systems Thinking: Proven ability to translate business strategies into technical capabilities, draw clear domain boundaries, map business domains to system architectures, and design reusable integration patterns. * Commercial Acumen & FinOps: Strong financial awareness to evaluate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) against tangible customer value, with a track record of validating the ROI on large technology investments and forecasting vendor demand. * Agile Roadmapping & Capability Planning: Advanced proficiency in building and maintaining capability maturity roadmaps, demonstrating the ability to expertly balance short-term MVP delivery with long-term, multi-year strategic enterprise goals. * Influence & Collaborative Leadership: A proven ability to lead through influence rather than just authority, build consensus among diverse stakeholders, empower engineering teams, and collaborate effectively with third-party SMEs. * Risk, Resiliency & Governance Management: Strong capability to define and enforce technology guardrails (spanning security, data, environments, and vendors) while actively managing technical debt and improving operational resilience. * Analytical Capability & Adaptability: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort navigating fast-paced, ambiguous environments and maintaining architectural documentation accuracy . * Future-Focused Horizon Scanning: A demonstrated habit of leveraging external professional networks to benchmark emerging technological advancements and successfully applying those trends to line-of-business strategies. ## Description Reporting to the Enterprise Architect PL5 for Shared Capability, you will benefit from a structured handover and be fully empowered to take ownership of the John Lewis Financial Services (JLFS) technology strategy. You will navigate the Partnership's federated matrix and vendor ecosystem as a visible leader within the JLFS Technology Management community. * Design for Impact & Strategy: Architect, design, and support the implementation of sustainable, highly effective technology solutions. Define architectural intent and technical guardrails (covering vendor, environmental, security, data, and technology considerations) aligned with the broader enterprise strategy. * Guide Strategic Investments & Roadmapping: Act as a trusted technology advisor to validate investments, ensure a sound ROI, and own the capability maturity roadmaps for the Technology Reference Model. Effectively balance short-term, in-year benefits (like MVPs and test-and-learns) against long-term strategic capabilities. * Domain-Driven Design & System Modeling: Champion Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles by continuously refining enterprise domain models. Work closely with Product and business teams to ensure technical boundaries accurately reflect the evolving business landscape, while designing reusable implementation patterns to accelerate delivery pace. * Technology Governance & Risk: Optimise technology design governance to balance Partnership and relevant Regulatory decisions processes while supporting pace of change and team autonomy. Pragmatically balance technology and information risk while continuously driving a measurable reduction in technical debt. * Collaborate & Influence Outcomes: Guide technology outcomes within cross-functional teams, working seamlessly alongside internal engineering colleagues, third-party SMEs, Product, and Business Partners to bridge the gap between architectural vision and pragmatic delivery. * Team Empowerment & Agility: Embrace agile working principles to empower teams to make autonomous decisions at-pace. 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