Head of Architecture

• Shape a pragmatic and adaptable multi-year technology road map (covering applications, infrastructure, data, and technology suppliers) to shift to a position where technology is a source of strategic competitive advantage, including its ability to change at pace.
• Influence and align the organisation around the road-map ensuring that it balances short term priorities with longer term objectives, is commercially sound, technically feasible and reflects our operational risk appetite.
• Ensure that the roadmap is implemented by putting in place appropriate formal mechanisms such as governance, accountabilities and objectives complemented with less formal methods such as influencing and visioning.
• Adapt the roadmap on an ongoing basis to ensure that it reflects changes to our strategy, market dynamics, technology, suppliers and organisational learning.
• Lead, develop and build a high performing architecture and strategy team through coaching, mentoring, managing performance and recruitment.
• Own the IT tooling architecture ensuring that its cost effectively supports the Technology operating model.
• It is your responsibility to report any weakness or breach that you identify within the Company’s information systems or services (even if only suspected).
• Ensuring quality, compliance, Health & Safety and safeguarding standards across the Department/location.
• You have a duty to take care of your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, guests and visitors. Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and you also have a duty to report all concerns and co-operate with management to enable it to comply with its health and safety and safeguarding accountabilities.

Person Specification

• Significant experience in defining roadmaps of solutions and technology to business priorities, capabilities, and functional structures.
• Broad knowledge and experience across all aspects of architecture including business, service, Application, Data, Infrastructure and Integration.
• Current knowledge of technology trends and IT strategy and how these could be applied to drive value such as, Digital Platforms, Cloud, , O365, Cyber, Data and Digital Service Design and Delivery.
• An understanding of and experience with the use of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as ISO, TOGAF etc.