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# Principal Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** N Brown
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, Software Engineering, Web Platforms, Enterprise Software Applications, Technical Debt
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.fashionjobs.com/job/n-brown/Principal-enterprise-architect,12149360.html

## About the Role

* Significant experience operating in an Enterprise Architecture leadership role within a small, scale-up or large-scale, complex organisation.
 * Proven ability to define target-state architectures and roadmap strategies that enable business transformation.
 * Strong understanding of modern digital platforms, cloud technologies, data architectures, integration patterns and enterprise applications.
 * Experience translating business strategy into practical technology solutions and architectural frameworks.
 * Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders, balancing strategic goals with delivery realities.
 * Broad understanding of software engineering practices, platform architecture and technology governance.
 * Experience working across multiple product, engineering and business teams to deliver cohesive enterprise-wide outcomes.
 * Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity.
 * Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
 * Experience supporting organisational transformation, operating model change and modern ways of working.
 * Experience using AI tools to support architecture design, option modelling, specification development and decision-making.
 * A growth mindset, with curiosity for emerging technologies and a desire to drive innovation through AI-enabled ways of working.

## Description

* Own and define the enterprise target architecture, ensuring alignment between business strategy, technology priorities and delivery outcomes.
 * Translate business direction into clear architectural approaches, principles and specifications that engineering and delivery teams can execute with confidence.
 * Provide end-to-end architectural leadership across multiple domains, ensuring solutions work cohesively across the wider technology ecosystem.
 * Establish and maintain architecture standards, governance, design principles and integration patterns.
 * Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies and opportunities, escalating issues where appropriate and influencing decision-making at senior leadership level.
 * Partner with Product, Engineering, Data and Business stakeholders to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered in line with agreed architectural direction.
 * Drive simplification and modernisation of existing technology platforms, helping to reduce technical debt and legacy constraints.
 * Use AI and automation as a core part of the architecture process to model options, test designs against constraints, improve specifications and create scalable, repeatable approaches across the Digital Factory.
 * Evaluate emerging technologies and AI capabilities, sharing insight and recommendations that improve organisational effectiveness.
 * Contribute to commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives by providing architecture expertise, thought leadership and technical credibility.


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