Lead Enterprise Architect
Land Securities Group
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Salary: Competitive
- Supports and deputises for the Head of Architecture, setting overarching technology strategy and providing guidance to other architects.
- Leads the development and maintenance of a technology strategy and an outcome driven, commercially focused technology roadmap for their business domain. Ensuring alignment of strategic needs with technology delivery across the entire organisation.
- Leads the identification, evaluation, design and analysis of new solutions, suppliers and delivery methods to extend and refine Landsec’s digital eco-system.
- Responsible for ensuring that the respective business, application, data, security and technology architectures are in line with Landsec’s technology and governance strategies, policies and standards.
- Ensures that projects are aligned to the technology strategy throughout the delivery process and do not duplicate functionality or diverge from the agreed strategy.
- Manges the upkeep of the architecture repository, principles, methods and standards.
- Ensures that the appropriate design and technical documentation are completed and kept up to date. Adhere to change processes and produce high quality technical documentation.
- Identify and recommend technology innovation experiments, helping to create new products and services and assists in integrating the best of these into steady-state operations for the organisation.
- Review the current IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and recommends improvements.
- Identifies the organisational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact.
- Senior level enterprise architecture experience or lead level experience in disciplines, such as application development, business analysis, digital marketing, or infrastructure operations in a multi-technology/multi-partner environment.
- Knowledge of software development methodologies and design techniques e.g. UML, Agile etc.
- Understanding of infrastructure and network architecture
- Have the ability to prototype and demonstrate using recognised tools and technologies e.g. JavaScript, .Net, Powershell, SharePoint, Azure, Power BI, Power Platform and Drupal.
- Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT) and data analytics.
- Experience in building Minimal Viable Products (MVP) and being able to demonstrate back to stakeholders.
- Certification in and knowledge of architecture and information management practices and EA frameworks e.g. TOGAF level 2.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, engineering or a related discipline with an information technology focus; or equivalent related experience.