Enterprise Architect Principal - 12 Month FTC

Job Description

Recruiter: Molly Lees

Hiring Manager: Michael Burchill

Career Grade: C

Internal Closing Date: 15th April 2026

Why this job matters

The Tribe Architect is a key role driving the technical direction the supporting tribe.This role matters because it is the technical leadership of every tribe, it is the thinker that makes sure we have the right roadmap that joins the technical strategy & architecture with the business outcomes for the tribe.

It is key as it’s moving the architecture decision making closer to the work, speeding up and simplifying making sure the architecture is being rolled out.The TA will have integrate such systems into the overall architectural pattern whilst ensuring the integrity of our Architectural strategy.

What you’ll be doing

• End-to-end Architecture Strategy/Roadmap and Design of the Tribe product/ solutions
• Sets and drives the architecture strategy/roadmap aligned to the Tribe’s vision. Drives adoption of the strategic architecture, balancing the outcomes needed of the tribes (including transition states)
• Recommends to the Tribe Lead the expected outcomes balancing customer value and technical debt (including relevant technology KPI targets)
• Guides on the technical shaping and feasibility estimates for epics and features, identifying major dependencies.
• Inputs tribe roadmap content into overall Business architecture roadmap and strategy
• Responsible for consistent Business Architecture that aligns pan BT. Owns the business capabilities for their tribe, the maturity and roadmap of capabilities, along with matrix of capabilities consumed from other Tribes. Owns the relationship with the sub-domain to ensure capability evolves in line with the architecture.
• Tribe product/solution architecture meets the nonfunctional requirements:
• Performance - Ensure the continued uptime/reliability, integrity, performance and maintenance of the Tribe’s experience layer.
• Ensures security by design and security compliance with all work in the tribe
• Optimizes the TCO of the tribe architecture, ensuring the affordability of the IT with the sub-domain architect
• Ensure the tribe is following Cloud native guardrails and modernizing the relevant tribe components.
• Promotes and adopts empathy driven design for customer centric products.
• Inputs into the MTP process to ensure the relevant funding needed to advance the architecture is requested and identify where lack of funding is slowing the overall architecture rollout down.

Essential skills/experience:

• Experience in a senior architecture role and experience within enterprise architecture.
• Very strong stakeholder management experience from junior developer through to CEO.
• Experience creating roadmaps for a “domain” that can tell both the technical, commercial and business impacts.

Desirable skills/experience:

• Experience of Agile planning, SAFE framework
• TOGAF certified

Our Package:

• 10% on target annual bonus
• Access to an online private GP 24/7 for you and your immediate family
• Market-leading paid carers leave with up to 2 weeks off
• Equalized maternity, paternity, and adoption leave – 18 weeks’ full pay and 8 weeks’ half pay
• Discounted EE and BT products, including mobile and broadband
• Market leading Pension scheme – 5% from you and 10% from us
• Holiday purchase scheme