Key Responsibilities
Client Vision, Outcomes and Options
- Frame the problem and intended outcomes defining viable solution options, trade-offs and recommended approach.
- Define scope boundaries, assumptions, dependencies, risks and customer-furnished items (CFIs) to improve delivery confidence.
- Shape commercially grounded roadmaps and delivery packages aligned to program pace and complexity.
- Assess current state (capabilities, processes, applications, data, integration and technology), define target state and run gap analysis to prioritise initiatives and inform sequencing.
Delivery Architecture and Assurance
- Maintain end-to-end architecture across domains and resolve cross-stream issues early (process, data, application, integration, technology, security).
- Produce build-ready artefacts including integration contracts, data flows, security model, environment strategy, sequencing and deployment approach.
- Embed NFRs, controls, testability and operational readiness from the outset (monitoring, access, auditability, support model).
- Maintain and update architecture baselines (current state and target state) as delivery progresses, ensuring changes are managed through governance and decision records.
Standards, Assets and Reuse
- Align to client standards and delivery methods; apply reference models where they improve clarity and assurance.
- Maintain a governed library of patterns, templates, accelerators and reference architectures (current/retired lifecycle).
- Convert engagement outputs into reusable assets to scale what works and reduce cost of change.
Architecture Innovation and Validation
- Run targeted prototypes to validate emerging technology, automation and AI patterns, and de-risk key design decisions.
- Assess feasibility, performance, security implications and scalability documenting findings and recommendations for governance.
Strategy to Execution Alignment
- Maintain a single narrative across the lifecycle from vision to investment to design to delivery to operation, ensuring coherence and actionable decision-making.
- Lead architecture governance, including decision records, guardrails and fit-for-purpose reviews scaled to risk, pace and complexity.
Skills, Experience and Competencies
Core Skills and Expertise
- Enterprise and solution architecture across business, process, data, application, integration, technology and security domains.
- Architecting for outcomes translating strategy into executable blueprints, roadmaps, sequencing and build instructions.
- Non-functional requirements (NFRs), controls and quality: performance, resilience, security-by-design, testability and auditability.
- Integration and data architecture fundamentals: interface contracts, data flows, information models and trusted data foundations.
- Establish and maintain governance and assurance architecture decision records, guardrails, reviews, and risk/issue/dependency management across streams.
- Operational readiness deployment approach with cutover, monitoring, support model and run books—continuity from concept to operation.
- Asset mindset building reusable patterns, templates and reference designs to remove friction and scale what works.
Experience
- 10–15+ years of experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or large-scale technology delivery.
- Proven experience leading architecture across complex programs spanning multiple platforms, vendors, and delivery streams.
- Experience producing build-ready artefacts and providing delivery assurance (NFRs, controls, sequencing, environments, testability, operational readiness).
- Strong experience in consulting or systems integration organisations, including client shaping, governance and stakeholder management.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and uplift capability across teams, embedding repeatable ways of working that persist beyond go-live.
Competencies
- Systems thinking and outcome orientation connecting strategy, design and delivery across people, process, data and technology.
- Clarity in complexity making decisions with incomplete information, documents trade-offs, and drives alignment.
- Stakeholder leadership influencing executives, delivery leads and vendors; facilitate decisions and resolving cross-stream conflicts.
- Governance and delivery discipline applying guardrails, assurance and operational readiness to reduce risk and rework.
Qualifications and Certifications
- TOGAF® Certified (mandatory) or equivalent architecture certification.
- Relevant delivery and governance frameworks (e.g. SAFe®, ITIL®) desirable.
Broad technology exposure across enterprise applications, integration platforms, data platforms, identity and security, and cloud/hybrid environments.
