Enterprise Architect Cloud Architect
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Overview
- The role is responsible for:
- Defining and evolving architecture mechanisms, standards, patterns, and reference architectures
- Owning the software and technology catalog for the domain, including Invest / Hold / Disinvest lifecycle positioning
- Driving adoption and consistent application of EA standards and practices in close collaboration with Technology Owners and Application Teams
- Providing thought leadership and clear long term architectural direction for the domain
- Defining and maintaining multi year architecture and technology roadmaps, aligned with business strategy and regulatory priorities
- Leveraging automation and AI enabled approaches to simplify, modernise, and scale EA governance, standards management, and overall EA capabilities
- The role works closely with business stakeholders, Technology Owners, application and delivery teams, and governance bodies to ensure that enterprise and domain level architectures are robust, scalable, secure, compliant, and future ready.
State Architecture & Platform Strategy
- Define and evolve the future state architecture for the assigned domain, including architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Establish clear architectural mechanisms and positions that guide how technologies are selected, used, and evolved within the domain.
- Define strategic technology and platform direction, including modernization, consolidation, and managed exit of legacy technologies.
- Develop architecture position papers, option analyses, and target state roadmaps to support executive and governance decision
- Ensure architectural direction consistently addresses scalability, resilience, security, data protection, regulatory compliance, and operational sustainability.
- Contribute to enterprise level architecture initiatives and overall EA practice maturity uplift.
Cloud Domain Architecture
- Define and evolve cloud architecture standards, guardrails, and reference architectures
- Establish architectural direction for landing zones, networking, identity, resilience, and DR/BCM patterns
- Maintain the cloud platform and service catalog, including lifecycle positioning and usage constraints
- Ensure cloud architectures meet security, regulatory, cost, and operational readiness expectations
- Define the long term cloud architecture roadmap, aligned with Technology Owner platform strategies
Software/Technology Catalog & Lifecycle Management
- Own the domain software and technology catalog, in collaboration with Technology Owners.
- Define Invest / Hold / Disinvest lifecycle positioning with clear architectural rationale.
- Ensure lifecycle intent is reflected in:
- Architecture standards and patterns
- Architecture governance decisions
- Long term modernization and rationalisation roadmaps
- Prevent uncontrolled technology sprawl and duplication.
Architecture Strategy, Adoption & Governance
- Define and enforce architecture guardrails to drive standardisation, reuse, resilience, and security by
- Govern solution and platform designs through EA governance forums (e.g. EADA), focusing on alignment to standards, patterns, and approved catalog technologies.
- Drive early and consistent adoption of architecture guidance across Technology Owners and Application Teams.
- Manage non standard designs through alignment or formally governed exceptions.
- Continuously improve architecture standards and governance mechanisms based on business evolution, delivery feedback, and operational insights.
EA Capability Modernisation & Thought Leadership
- Act as a trusted domain authority and source of architectural thought leadership.
- Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to inform pragmatic architectural evolution.
- Guide appropriate architectural style shifts while balancing innovation with regulatory and operational readiness.
- Identify and promote the use of automation and AI enabled approaches to simplify, scale, and industrialise EA mechanisms (standards management, governance, reviews, insights).
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with Technology owners to align architecture direction, lifecycle intent and platform roadmaps.
- Engage with Application Team and Solution Architects to provide early guidance
- Collaborate with internal governance bodies (e.g., Cloud, Data, Security) to ensure coherence across domains.
- Engage with vendors and strategic partners to assess solutions and ensure alignment with enterprise and domain architecture direction
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