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# Lead Enterprise Architect

- **Company:** 17918
- **Location:** Hurley, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £100,886
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Relational Databases, Database Schema, Shard (Database Architecture), Software Design Patterns, Information Lifecycle Management, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle (Applications), Indexer, Data Strategy, Information Technology, Data Management
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/lead-enterprise-architect/55738094

## About the Role

architecting 'eco-systems' of products as well as individual products. Advising on high impact technology choices and product selections. Presenting to large and varied technical and non-technical audiences both within the organisation, across government and externally. Leading on architectural governance activities to enable effective management and architectural decision making. Experience of developing reference architectures including architectural principals, patterns, standards and guidance and communicating this to an audience of peers. Using architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards to clearly communicate concrete architectures and reference patterns. Experience of data modelling, database schema design, normalization, indexing, partitioning, sharding, replication, data quality assessment and data lifecycle management. Experience of selecting and using database technologies, including relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), NoSQL

## Description

services, enterprise platforms and emerging technologies, ensuring data architecture delivers business outcomes while enabling future innovation. From cloud-based data ecosystems and modern data platforms to governance, resilience and AI readiness, you'll help define the future direction of DWP's digital and data capabilities. You'll join a highly influential architecture community and play a key role in developing enterprise standards, reference architectures and design patterns that support critical national services. Working closely with senior leaders, architects and product teams, you'll influence major transformation programmes and help shape the long-term technology and data strategy of one of the UK's largest and most complex organisations. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Leading the enterprise scale architecture and design of business-critical IT projects/services in a large, high volume and complex organisation. Includes evidence of responsibility for