Lead Enterprise Architect
Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid working) - Applicants are welcome from anywhere across the EMEA region
Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day,Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan,Life assurance, Discount scheme.
Role Overview:
The Lead Enterprise Architect will effectively bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring that technology serves as a powerful enabler for achieving business success. The Lead Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role by analysing and understanding the intricate stakeholder relationships, driving innovation, optimising process and facilitating digital transformation.
Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on…
1. Understanding business problems and delivering solutions that align to Spirax governance and values
2. Owning the application roadmap and lifecycle management
3. Cross-functional collaboration across the Group to minimise cost and effort
4. Understanding complex business problems, influencing stakeholders to adopt existing platforms
5. Conducting new product and feature evaluation, gaining support through socialisation, POC and defining the roadmap for adoption
6. Evaluating project constraints to find alternatives, alleviate risks and perform re-engineering if required
Your previous experience is likely to include….
7. Delivering D365 projects & delivering ERP, CRM and FDM globally in a complex organisation
8. Building solutions with Azure components
9. Software engineering, design architecture and understanding of best practices in system security measures
10. Leading engagements and working within agile delivery projects
11. Ownership of product roadmaps and setting organisational direction
12. Setting practical organisational measures that deliver service improvement or cost reduction
To be successful in this role you will…
13. Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
14. Have capacity to spend 15% of working time travelling to key stakeholders, technology partners and customers
15. Effectively communicate complex technical ideas to business leaders (up to C-suite) in a clear manner to gain engagement and agreement
16. Possess excellent analytical and technical skills through working experience and/or relevant qualifications
17. Be proactive and results oriented, with the ability to build consensus and communicate effectively with multi-disciplined stakeholders
The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at .
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.