Description SummaryPurpose:
As the Enterprise Architect for Assessment Technology, you will play a central role in defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise wide architecture that underpins the organisationâs assessment products and services. Working closely with the Lead Data Architect, Business Architect, and other Enterprise Architects, you will help shape a coherent architectural vision that supports strategic goals, drives transformation, and ensures technology investments deliver long term value.
You will provide thought leadership across business, data, application, and technology architecture domains, ensuring that architectural decisions are aligned, future proof, and grounded in well structured analysis. This role requires a strong strategic mindset, broad technical understanding, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across the organisation.Landscape:
The Architecture and Innovation Department supports the Chief Assessment Technology Officer in shaping the future of assessment delivery.
As the Enterprise Architect, you will work across all portfolio areas to define the architectural direction and technology roadmaps for each portfolio whilst also ensuring alignment with the overall technology strategy. You will collaborate across product, technology, and business teams to ensure architectural coherence, reduce complexity, and enable transformation through clear architectural principles, whilst also providing a business impact and value view to leaders at all levels including divisional heads and executive directors.
Activities:
Lead the enterprise architecture function for Assessment Technology
Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, and frameworks across Assessment Technology.
Develop and communicate enterpriseâlevel architectural roadmaps that guide longâterm investment and transformation.
Work across business and technology domains to understand strategic objectives and translate them into coherent architectural direction.
Evaluate solution and technology options to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, data strategy, and security policies.
Provide enterprise level architectural governance and oversight across programmes, projects, and initiatives.
Collaborate with Solution Architecture, Product Teams, and Technical Architecture to ensure solutions align with enterpriseâlevel direction.
Lead architectural assessments, identifying risks, opportunities, and areas for simplification or optimisation.
Represent Enterprise Architecture in strategic forums and contribute to enterpriseâwide planning and decisionâmaking.
Promote reuse, standardisation, and alignment with architectural patterns and principles.
Drive innovation by exploring emerging technologies and assessing their relevance to organisational strategy.
Engage proactively with senior stakeholders, including divisional heads and executives, to communicate architectural vision, influence decisionâmaking, and ensure alignment.
Facilitate workshops, discussions, and presentations to build shared understanding of architectural direction and tradeâoffs.
Act as a trusted advisor to all levels of leadership, translating complex architectural concepts into businessârelevant insights and values.
To be successful in this role, you will need to:
Demonstrate a strong technical foundation and broad understanding of modern enterprise architecture practices
Guide architectural decisions across multiple domains without requiring deep specialism in each.
Communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively to technical and nonâtechnical audiences.
Lead with a strategic mindset, ensuring architecture supports business outcomes and longâterm value.
Be proactive, adaptable, and effective in a fastâpaced, evolving environment.
Exhibit strong leadership, influencing, and relationshipâbuilding capabilities.
Be curious, open to new technologies, and committed to continuous learning.
Show a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and professional integrity.
Qualifications
Degree in Computing or equivalent business technology delivery experience.
Professional accreditation (e.g., BCS, TOGAF) is desirable.
Experience in managing, understanding, and articulating logical and domainâlevel data models.
Skills
Strategic and analytical thinking.
Able to quickly grasp the key differences in technology choices and design patterns
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Ability to influence and guide technical and business teams, easily transitioning between each domain
Good understanding of problem definition and with ability to switch between problem and solution domain
Commercial awareness and ability to balance strategic, business and technical priorities.
Experience
Significant experience in enterprise or solution architecture within complex, multiâdomain environments.
Proven track record of developing architectural frameworks, roadmaps, and governance models.
Experience influencing senior stakeholders and contributing to strategic planning.
Familiarity with agile delivery models and productâbased architectures.
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