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Job Title: Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture

Overview of the Role

The Associate Director of Enterprise Architecture is responsible for empowering both business and technology leadership to make informed decisions that strike a balance between immediate operational demands, emerging opportunities, and long-term strategic goals. This is achieved by leading and shaping the enterprise architecture function, establishing and promoting architectural principles and standards, maintaining a clear target digital architecture and roadmap, and offering strategic guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously evolve the organisations enterprise architecture framework, principles, standards, and roadmaps to ensure alignment with overall business strategy.
• Drive the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive technology strategy and roadmap that integrates applications, platforms, infrastructure, and integration layers, aligned with wider digital and business strategies.
• Manage architecture documentation and repositories, ensuring artifacts are current, well-governed, accessible, and recognised as the single source of truth for architecture-related assets.
• Lead architectural governance through forums such as design and architecture review boards, ensuring solution designs adhere to agreed standards and align with the target state.
• Provide architectural guidance to internal digital teams and external partners to ensure solution design is consistent, scalable, and efficient.
• Collaborate with business and digital leaders to communicate technical strategies in clear, business-friendly terms and keep stakeholders informed on relevant developments.
• Work in partnership with risk, audit, and cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with architecture standards, especially relating to data protection, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
• Support the business capability model in partnership with business analysis, ensuring accurate reflection of current capabilities and identifying areas for improvement.
• Manage a team of internal and third-party architecture professionals, ensuring sufficient skills, resources, and compliance with internal people management policies.
• Foster strong relationships across business and technology teams to ensure collaboration and alignment.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing enterprise architecture across multiple domains (business process, data, product, infrastructure).
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Broad technical understanding of cloud platforms (particularly Microsoft Azure), APIs, microservices, integration, and containerisation.
• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity, risk, and compliance (e.g. GDPR).
• Familiarity with standards such as ITIL, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum.
• Experience with architecture tools and techniques (e.g. Bizzdesign, Archimate, LeanIX).
• Strong leadership experience managing hybrid teams (internal and external).
• Ability to convey complex technical ideas to a broad audience.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect architectural direction to business goals.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, comfortable working within a lean team.
• TOGAF v9 or v10 certification.
• Experience as a senior or lead enterprise architect in a business setting.
• Knowledge of AI technologies from an architecture implementation perspective.
• Experience in sectors such as real estate, investment, or property management.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Additional Information

The role is based in a central London office, with an expectation of working on-site 3 days per week on average. Travel to other UK and European office locations is required periodically.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Leasing Non-residential Real Estate, Leasing Residential Real Estate, and Real Estate Agents and Brokers

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