Senior Enterprise Architect
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Job Description
Job Description:
Senior Enterprise Architect Telecoms
Location: London Hybrid working model
Salary: Competitive base salary Benefits
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
About the Role
We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Senior Enterprise Architect to lead the technical strategy and governance for a high-profile multi-million Pound digital transformation programme in the telecommunications sector. This role is critical to ensuring the successful design and delivery of complex time-sensitive BSS/OSS ecosystems that support business-critical operations for a major telecom client.
The ideal candidate will possess deep domain knowledge in telecoms architecture strong technical governance capabilities and a proven track record in thought leadership across cross-functional and vendor-led delivery environments.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic & Technical Leadership
- Define and lead the enterprise architecture vision aligning it with business strategy and programme objectives.
- Act as the technical authority across the programme providing architectural direction and technology roadmap evolution.
- Deliver technical thought leadership driving innovation standardisation and adoption of best practices across BSS/OSS layers.
Governance & Oversight
- Establish and enforce technical governance frameworks and architecture principles across all programme phases.
- Ensure architecture artefacts decision logs and design documentation meet compliance quality and audit requirements.
- Facilitate architecture reviews design assurance and risk management activities with internal and external stakeholders.
Solution Delivery
- Lead the design of scalable modular and resilient BSS/OSS solutions integrating with legacy systems and modern platforms.
- Oversee solution architecture workstreams across multiple delivery teams and ensure consistency with target state architecture.
- Translate business and operational requirements into technology designs that are deliverable within programme constraints.
- Document and communicate the technology designs to the delivery teams and provide support in the execution of the delivery of the programme.
Stakeholder Management
- Partner with executives programme directors product owners and delivery teams to align architecture with delivery milestones.
- Engage and influence client stakeholders third-party vendors and system integrators to drive architectural consensus.
- Present complex technical solutions in clear compelling ways to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Required Experience & Skills
Essential:
- 10 years in enterprise architecture roles with recent experience in telecoms sector.
- Proven success in leading architecture for large-scale BSS/OSS transformation programmes.
- Deep understanding of telecom standards protocols and technologies (TM Forum frameworks Open APIs 5G readiness).
- Strong capability in architecture governance enterprise frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and agile or hybrid programme delivery.
- Experience in multi-vendor environments managing cross-functional architecture inputs and driving end-to-end integration.
- Exceptional communication negotiation and leadership skills.
- Willingness to travel and spend time onsite internationally
Desirable:
- Experience with cloud-native architectures (e.g. AWS Azure) Kubernetes microservices and DevSecOps practices.
- Familiarity with data architecture AI/ML applications in telecom and enterprise security models.
- Certification in TOGAF TM Forum or related architecture frameworks.
Employment Type
Full Time
