Head of Enterprise Architecture

Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year

Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading enterprise architecture in a complex, regulated environment.
• Expertise in architecture domains including application, data, infrastructure, and security.
• Strong working knowledge of TOGAF or a similar architecture framework.
• Demonstrable experience in architecture assurance, governance, and secure-by-design principles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our enterprise-wide architecture function, defining and assuring standards, policies, and governance across all domains.
• Provide strategic oversight of architectural alignment and assurance for all digital and data initiatives.
• Ensure solution designs are secure, scalable, and strategically aligned.
• Align enterprise architecture with business goals and digital transformation priorities.
• Define and maintain enterprise-wide architecture standards, frameworks, and policies across all architecture domains.
• Lead architecture governance forums, ensuring only compliant and strategically aligned designs are approved.
• Assure architectural decisions and artefacts meet standards for interoperability, scalability, security, and sustainability.
• Maintain architectural traceability between strategic intent and programme outcomes.
• Drive consistency, best practice, and maturity across all architects, ensuring common ways of working and aligned outputs.
• Ensure coherence and integration across shared platforms, services, and architectural components.
• Own and evolve the enterprise architecture roadmap in line with business needs and technology trends.

Technologies:

• Support
• Security
• TOGAF
• Architect
• Embedded

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We are based at RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking. We operate a 9-day working fortnight, with every other Friday as a non-working day, and this role is required to be fully onsite. We support flexible working arrangements where possible, including part-time and varied working hours, while maintaining an onsite presence. We offer a competitive salary aligned with the seniority and impact of the role, along with award-winning benefits including a market-leading contributory pension scheme, generous annual leave, family-friendly policies, professional development support, an employee assistance programme, occupational health services, life assurance, discounts, and special leave for volunteering, public service, and caring.

last updated 35 week of 2026