Enterprise Architect

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Position: Enterprise Architect

Location: London Cambridge

Employment type: Full-time regular

The job

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to lead and support enterprise architecture (EA) activities that guide the development and management of business and technology - driven solutions.

In AVEVA Enterprise Architects provide the leadership facilitation analysis and design tasks required for the development of an enterprises application data and technology architecture.

• They create deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (standards guidelines individual parts platforms and configurations) for evolving the enterprise applications technology platforms and integrations patterns to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.
• They enable and orchestrate the delivery of targeted business outcomes through facilitating and making technical decisions.
• They combine consulting style approach to derive a strategic end-state vision for where the Enterprise needs to go with a pragmatic product based approach to solutions that can be implemented by AVEVAs domain based engineering teams using agile methods.
• They convey a consistent message and inspire trust in stakeholders who can rely on them and feel their time is well invested.
• They are proactive and progressive in action a change agent adept at collaborating with diverse stakeholders across different domains and levels.
• They like the big picture and operate with an Enterprise mindset yet they feel the need to dive deep into technologies to understand how they work so that they can clearly articulate their recommendations to engineers and technical SMEs.
• They are passionate about experimenting with innovative technologies plus designing and implementing enterprise-wide IT solutions.
• They challenge the status quo and they are not happy until they understand the why of existing processes and solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns the current - state and derives future state architecture (applications data technology platforms) by working with architecture peers (Solutions Data Infrastructure).
• Evaluates analyses and rationalises how architectural solutions are aligned organized and mapped against the future vision and the strategic needs of AVEVA.
• Act as an advisor providing insights on new technologies and recommending solutions that support business objectives
• Leads the analysis of the current applications integrations and platforms including data. Understands and clearly identifies technical debt and recommends solutions for improvement. This included scanning the horizon for evolving technologies and trends.
• Works with the business leaders IT domain leaders and relevant stakeholders to provide guidance and oversight to development teams to ensure that decisions are backed by a clear and well-understood rationale.
• Assists with designing the governance assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
• Oversees and facilitates the research evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards as well as the design of standard configurations.
• enterprise technology architecture.

Essential skills and experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science information technology system analysis or a related study or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of proven experience of IT systems design.
• Experience with and knowledge of Business applications within 3 or more of the following domains:
  • Commercial/direct Sales (CRM Salesforce preferred)
  • B2B digital ecosystems supporting indirect Sales and Partners/Resellers. The combination of both CRM and indirect Sales ecosystems is ideal.
  • Finance (ERP and Billing Oracle preferred)
  • Marketing (Campaign Management Adobe platform preferred)
  • HR (Workday platform preferred)
• Mastery of SaaS and Cloud concepts and architecture patterns.
• Understanding of Master Data Management concepts in the context of CRM-ERP-Billing integrations.
• Understanding of product management agile principles and development methodologies.
• Understanding of security architecture.
• Understanding of Architecture frameworks and concepts (TOGAF SAFe or others) as well as development life cycle methodologies (e.g. waterfall spiral agile software development rapid prototyping incremental synchronize and stabilize and DevOps).
• Mastery of technical concepts and high level design patterns involving APIs
• Understanding of AI solutions and a clear understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of AI technologies is highly beneficial.
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork facilitation and negotiation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desired Skills and experience:

• Familiarity with Mulesoft is a plus.
• Relevant vendor or industry certifications.
• Experience working as a consultant on large multi-national projects is highly beneficial.
• Experience working in the Software/Technology Industry is highly beneficial.

UK Benefits include:

Flexible benefits fund emergency leave days adoption leave 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) pension life cover private medical insurance parental leave education assistance program.

Its possible were hiring for this position in multiple countries in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

Find out more: working

By default employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.

Hiring process

Interested Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

Find out more: AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life such as energy infrastructure chemicals and minerals safely efficiently and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations our culture and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: out more: requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may subject to those laws include proof of educational attainment employment history verification proof of work authorization criminal records identity verification credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.

AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.