Head of Strategic and Enterprise Architecture

Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 76000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas to life. Thats right were big but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And thats where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working both of hours and location. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices located in London Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

The Head of Strategic & Enterprise Architecture plays a critical role in ensuring the continuity of architecture and alignment with the Banners technology direction to hold the customer at the heart of everything we do. You will be a key strategic partner in defining how Kingfisher approaches new or emerging Technology and Business opportunities and you will work to influence and simplify the core capabilities of our business.

• Lead the development and maturity of the Strategic & Enterprise Architecture practice embedding tooling standards and governance aligned with business strategy and enabling agile informed decisionmaking.
• Champion the value of Strategic Architecture across the organisation communicating its impact on strategy innovation and transformation through clear reporting and business engagement.
• Build inspire and develop a highperforming team of domain architects ensuring alignment with business goals operating models and the growth of critical architecture capabilities.
• Act as an inspiring leader delivering futurestate architecture views and finding opportunities where technology can unlock value for our customers and support our North Star vision.
• Drive innovation and experimentation tracking emerging technologies and running pilots to integrate the most valuable into businessasusual operations.
• Collaborate across the organization influencing senior collaborators and guiding architecture decisions through forums like design councils and governance boards.
• Develop and communicate architectural roadmaps and transition plans ensuring alignment between business ambition technology capabilities and investment priorities.

• Experience leading and maturing a Strategic & Enterprise Architecture function within a large complex organisation including establishing governance models standards tooling and crossdomain architecture views.
• Ability to connect technology strategy to business outcomes shape futurestate capabilities and engage senior stakeholders in driving value through architectureled decisions.
• Experience building and developing highperforming architecture teams mentoring recruiting and aligning them to business and technology goals through effective operating models and career development.
• A consistent track record of identifying evaluating and applying emerging technologies to deliver innovation improve business performance and shape longterm architectural direction.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across senior leadership technology teams and external partners to embed architecture in decisionmaking and transformation delivery.

Be Customer Focused constantly improving our customers experience

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human leading with purpose humanity and care

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious thrive on learning thinking beyond the obvious

• We focus externally globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile building trust and empowering people to work with agility

• We act with pace not perfection role modelling 80/20
• We take risks fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate breaking down silos

Be Accountable owning the plan delivering results and growth

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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