About The Role
The Enterprise Architect proactively and holistically helps and guides business leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities.
The Enterprise Architect’s scope of activities includes helping MO achieve targeted business outcomes defined in the objectives and key results which underpin our strategy. They focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the domain within which they work and collaborate with the wider team to do so for the organisation as a whole.
About You
As an Enterprise Architect you will:
Support Formulation of Strategy and Guide Execution:
* Translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve MO’s targeted business outcomes using a collaborative, supportive and consultative approach.
* Understand MO’s economic and financial levers to effectively guide investment decisions.
* Proactively identify and help the organisation respond to disruptive forces.
Build and Maintain Relationships:
* Provide consultative advice, and actionable recommendations adapted to stakeholder context to guide investment decisions.
* Lead and facilitate interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of decisions to the line of business, business unit and wider enterprise.
Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes:
* Work with other architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
* Develop diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy.
* Lead analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
Plan and Manage the Application Portfolio:
* Maintain the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
* Lead analysis of the domain's technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
* Develop and apply architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model.
* Facilitate a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams.
* Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Lead, Mentor and Develop Other Architects:
* Lead, mentor, and inspire the Architecture team, ensuring team members have the necessary resources and support to excel in their roles.
* Foster a culture of innovation, accountability and collaboration within the team and across departments.
* Ensure that the team continues to develop appropriate technical and soft skills to effectively support the business as it changes.
Minimum Criteria:
As a minimum for this role, you will need to have experience in the full project development life cycle; a proven track record, with demonstrable experience in a role of similar responsibility and scale; strong analytical and problem-solving abilities; and a solid technology background.
About The Company
Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:
* We find solutions
* We drive change
* We care
We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.
As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:
* Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
* 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
* 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
* Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
* 1 day for volunteering
* Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
* Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
* Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
* Funded health screening for over 50s
* Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
* Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
* Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
* Generous family leave policies
At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first-rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
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