Enterprise Architect - Technical Strategy

Salary: £42,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements

• We are pragmatic about architecture, standards, documentation and governance, with a focus on helping teams make better decisions and deliver well.
• We can move between enterprise-level strategy and detailed technical discussions.
• We are curious about emerging technology, including AI, with the judgement to assess where it can add value and the risks or trade-offs involved.
• We can work effectively with senior stakeholders, constructively question established approaches and influence without relying on formal authority.
• We can communicate complex ideas clearly, facilitate constructive discussions, build effective relationships and recognise when domain teams should own the answer.
• Substantial engineering and architecture experience, including operating at enterprise architecture or equivalent strategic level, with responsibility for shaping direction across multiple teams, systems and domains.
• Proven experience influencing enterprise technology strategy, investment decisions and significant cross-domain change.
• Experience working with senior engineers and architects on complex software, platform and technology decisions.
• Broad knowledge of modern architecture across areas such as APIs and integration, identity, cloud, resilience and operability.
• Experience applying modelling techniques and creating practical principles, guardrails, standards, patterns and decision-making approaches.
• Good understanding of the architectural implications of AI and other emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• We shape enterprise technical strategy by turning business priorities and enterprise direction into clear technical choices, principles and shared direction.
• We lead technical thinking on significant cross-domain challenges, surfacing risks, dependencies and opportunities.
• We shape the technical dimension of strategic planning, investment decisions and build, buy or reuse choices, considering value, cost, risk and long-term maintainability.
• We shape pragmatic modernisation paths that balance new capabilities, legacy technology, technical debt and service continuity.
• We co-create practical patterns across integration, APIs, identity, service design and other cross-cutting areas.
• We help teams define clear domain boundaries and shared language using appropriate modelling and architecture techniques.
• We bring Data, Platform, Security and DevEx standards together as practical guidance that teams can use.
• We support Product Architects and Technical Principals through peer support, review and the Architecture Community of Practice.
• We bring domain views together to show the wider technical landscape, dependencies, risks and opportunities.
• We establish practical approaches to surfacing architecture debt, technical risks and significant decisions.
• We facilitate resolution of cross-domain disagreements and escalate material trade-offs through the appropriate route.
• We help ensure governance enables good decisions without adding unnecessary approval layers.
• We establish a connected view of domains, systems, services, ownership, decisions and technical guidance.
• We make architecture information current, structured and useful to engineers, architects and AI-enabled tools.
• We integrate architecture documentation with engineering sources and workflows where practical.
• We work with Product Architects to keep domain architecture, decisions and architecture debt visible and connected.

Technologies

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• Architect
• Network

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Motability Operations is a unique organisation that combines a strong sense of purpose with a commercial focus to provide worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease affordable vehicles, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters and powered wheelchairs, with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK and work with around 5,000 car dealers and all major manufacturers. We are proud of our customer service and our 9.8 out of 10 independently verified customer satisfaction rating. This is a new, influential enterprise architecture role focused on cross-domain technical strategy, modern engineering practices and sustainable technical decision-making, working alongside other architecture leaders and partnering closely with engineering teams. We operate hybrid working across the organisation, with up to 2 days per week remote within the UK, and offer a range of benefits including an annual discretionary bonus, a 15% non-contributory pension, life assurance, employee discount schemes, discounted electric/hybrid car salary sacrifice, cycle to work, 28 days annual leave, private medical insurance, critical illness insurance, healthcare apps, health screening, volunteer time, access to a company allotment, prayer room and quiet spaces, plus optional dental insurance, health and cancer screenings, discounted gym memberships and charitable giving. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, disability access, and flexible working where possible.

last updated 36 week of 2026