Senior Manager Architecture Governance

Salary: £37,000 - 77,000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Enterprise architecture certification such as TOGAF or equivalent is preferred.
• Azure, cloud architecture, security, data architecture, integration architecture, or architecture governance certifications are advantageous.
• ITIL Foundation or equivalent service management certification is advantageous.
• SIAM Service Integration and Management Foundation is advantageous.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture governance, standards, principles, and decision frameworks.
• Broad understanding of enterprise technology domains, including applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud, and security.
• Ability to assess solution and technical architectures from a governance, risk, and strategic alignment perspective.
• Understanding of data architecture, data governance, MDM, enterprise data platforms, and integration architecture concepts.
• Familiarity with EAM platforms such as LeanIX, Alfabet, Ardoq, MEGA, or similar tools.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to build teams, mature governance capabilities, and drive organizational change.

Responsibilities:

• We own and operate the Architecture Review Board (ARB) and architecture governance processes.
• We define, maintain, and continuously improve architecture governance frameworks, standards, guardrails, decision processes, and review practices.
• We ensure architecture reviews are consistent, risk-based, and aligned with enterprise strategy and technology standards.
• We maintain traceability of architectural decisions, exceptions, and outcomes, ensuring transparency and stakeholder awareness.
• We provide governance oversight and architectural guidance across solution and technical designs.
• We conduct architecture reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise principles, security requirements, and target-state architectures.
• We lead architecture risk assessments and facilitate resolution of complex cross-domain design issues.
• We evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to modernization and enterprise platform roadmaps.
• We own architecture review intake, triage, and routing processes.
• We ensure review submissions are complete, and architecture engagement occurs early in delivery lifecycles.
• We monitor review effectiveness, governance quality, and cycle times to drive continuous improvement.
• We align domain architects to enterprise architecture principles, standards, and governance expectations.
• We foster an architecture community that promotes knowledge sharing, reusable patterns, and consistent practices.
• We facilitate resolution of cross-domain dependencies, conflicts, and architectural trade-offs.
• We provide governance leadership for data and integration architecture initiatives in partnership with the Data Office and other key stakeholders.
• We define and maintain architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails for data platforms, integrations, APIs, data flows, and system interoperability.
• We ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, and aligned to enterprise architecture and data governance objectives.
• We build and lead the Architecture Governance / Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) capability.
• We establish governance operating models, roles, responsibilities, and ways of working.
• We coach architecture practitioners and develop scalable governance practices that support enterprise growth and transformation.
• We serve as the primary liaison between enterprise architecture, domain architects, portfolio governance, delivery teams, transformation programs, and IT leadership.
• We communicate architecture decisions, risks, exceptions, and recommendations in a clear and business-focused manner.
• We provide leadership with insights into governance trends, risks, decision bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
• We continuously enhance architecture governance processes, tools, standards, and repositories.
• We simplify governance where possible while maintaining appropriate oversight and control.
• We drive adoption of architecture practices through training, templates, communications, and community engagement.
• We ensure the architecture governance capability evolves in line with business priorities, transformation initiatives, and the IT operating model.

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• Cloud
• EAM
• Support
• ITIL
• Security
• TOGAF
• Architect

More:

We are the third largest data center provider, operating over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions. We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centers, to help our clients seamlessly scale their digital businesses anywhere and anytime. This Senior Manager, Architecture Governance role leads our global Enterprise Architecture Management governance function for NTT Global Data Centers, building and shaping the Architecture Governance/EAM capability across the organization.

last updated 38 week of 2026