Role : Enterprise Architect
Location : London – hybrid working
Salary : £120,000 - 150,000 + bonus + benefits
As an Enterprise Architect within one of our exciting Retail Media clients, you will shape the technology direction for omni-channel media products and platforms, working closely with business, tech, and partner teams to align strategy with valuable outcomes. You'll guide architectural decisions, explore new technologies, and drive the adoption of best practices. Your focus will include modularity, microservices, event-driven systems, DevOps, and agile methodologies, while building scalable, secure, multi-tenant systems on public/private cloud environments. This role involves operating in a data-driven, agile environment focused on high security and reliability standards.
You will lead efforts to ensure technology aligns with business strategy, creating and governing architecture standards that support sustainable and flexible solutions. As a thought leader, you'll translate strategy into actionable plans and help deliver on key technology initiatives.
Key responsibilities :
* Understand and Communicate Technology Landscape: Create models to explain the media landscape and help colleagues understand their role in decision-making.
* Define and Evolve Technology Strategy: Develop an enterprise architecture aligned with business goals, ensuring agility, simplicity, and cost-efficiency. Contribute to business planning with industry insights.
* Guide Delivery and Solution Design: Collaborate on designing flexible, secure solutions, and establish governing principles and standards for key initiatives.
* Support Successful Delivery: Provide technical support for initiatives facing delivery challenges to ensure business value is achieved.
* Develop Architecture Framework: Build architecture capabilities aligned with agile and DevOps; engage and educate teams on architecture practices.
* Drive Innovation and Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of industry trends, lead POCs, publish thought leadership content, and represent the organization in speaking opportunities.
* Build and Lead High-Performing Teams: Support team development through hiring, mentoring, and fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
Experience looking for:
* Experience of Technology delivery at enterprise scale in a Media / Broadcast or Retail Media organisation
* Hands-on software engineering background comprising a range of languages, frameworks and technologies (tshaped)
* Successful use of Enterprise Architecture to shape strategic priorities
* Solution Architecture experience on major programmes
* Creation, communication and embedding of Technology strategy
* Leading solution architecture governance / assurance
* Understanding across Software, Infrastructure, Security and Data
If you’re interested in learning more about this opportunity, please get in touch!
Thank you.