Were looking for a Principal Enterprise Architect to lead the design alignment and governance of complex IT systems across business domains. In this role youll act as a strategic partner to stakeholders ensuring that architecture decisions support both technical excellence and business outcomes.
This is a highly collaborative role requiring deep technical fluency cross-functional awareness and strong leadership across project client and organizational boundaries.
Strategic Architecture Leadership
- Design and own end-to-end enterprise solutions across multiple platforms domains and business areas.
- Translate business goals into scalable secure and maintainable IT architectures.
- Drive architecture decisions aligned to roadmap business strategy and regulatory needs.
Design & Documentation
- Lead architectural reviews create system blueprints (C4 RAIDs data flows) and guide solution realization.
- Translate logical designs into physical implementations considering performance security integration and cost.
- Ensure alignment of frontend/backend systems databases (SQL/NoSQL) and infrastructure (cloud/on-prem).
Governance & Best Practices
- Define and enforce architecture standards security guidelines and development methodologies.
- Drive compliance with internal and external audit risk and regulatory requirements.
- Support architectural decision records (ADRs) build-vs-buy analysis and service blueprinting.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as a senior advisor to internal and client teams balancing technical and business priorities.
- Influence decisions across delivery infrastructure security and executive leadership.
- Facilitate workshops build consensus and advocate for architectural best practices.
Mentorship & Leadership
- Coach junior architects and engineering teams on architecture fundamentals.
- Promote a culture of technical excellence innovation and continuous improvement.
Qualifications :
- 10 years in IT architecture roles with 3 years in enterprise or principal architect capacity.
- Strong experience across cloud (AWS Azure) microservices DevOps API management and enterprise integration (MQ ESB event streaming).
- Demonstrated knowledge in systems design security architecture data modeling and application scalability.
- Familiarity with frameworks such as TOGAF Zachman or similar a plus.
- Excellent communication presentation and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in architectural tools and modeling standards (C4 UML BPMN etc.).
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field/
Preferred:
- Experience in regulated industries (e.g. banking payments insurance).
- Familiarity with Lean Value Trees Agile roadmapping or strategic portfolio planning.
- Strong negotiation and decision-making ability across technical and business domains.
Additional Information :
Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:
- Finance: Competitive salary package share plan company performance bonuses value-based recognition awards referral bonus;
- Career Development: Career coaching global career opportunities non-linear career paths internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
- Learning Opportunities: Complex projects rotations internal tech communities training certifications coaching online learning platforms subscriptions pass-it-on sessions workshops conferences;
- Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours employee assistance programme;
- Health: Global internal wellbeing programme access to wellbeing apps;
- Community: Global internal tech communities hobby clubs and interest groups inclusion and diversity programmes events and celebrations.
At Endava were committed to creating an open inclusive and respectful environment where everyone feels safe valued and empowered to be their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and perspectivesbecause we know that inclusive teams help us deliver smarter more innovative solutions for our customers. Hiring decisions are based on merit skills qualifications and potential. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time