Enterprise Architect (Bristol)

At AND, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious leaders and organisations build the teams, products, processes and even operational structures they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow. Clients rely on our experience, agility and craft skills across tech and business strategy, software development and product management to address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses. We bring aboard thinkers, tinkerers, passionate software craftspeople and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we’re united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won’t transform a business or save the world: it’s the people that count.

AND Digital requires additional Enterprise Architecture (EA) capacity to support the stand-up and early operation of a maturing Architecture Function. Our client is undergoing significant transformation, with 21 major programmes operating concurrently. We currently require additional architectural breadth, governance discipline, and enterprise-level decision-making capability necessary to underpin safe, scalable and coherent change initiatives.

This role provides end-to-end architectural leadership across business, application, data and technology domains. The EA will lead design authority activities, develop target architectures, identify cross-programme dependencies, establish architectural principles, shape AND Digital’s long-term technology strategy, and ensure programme-level design coherence.

The following skillsets are essential:

• Enterprise Architecture (business, application, data, technology)
• Architecture governance, design decision facilitation, and ARB operation
• Technology strategy definition and roadmap creation
• Architectural modelling, documentation, and standards creation
• Cloud (AWS/Azure) and modern digital platform architecture
• Integration, API-led design, and event-driven architectures
• Data and information architecture, supporting regulatory and business requirements

Experience in the following domains is highly desirable:

• Financial Services architecture
• Large-scale transformation delivery
• Operating model design and capability maturity assessments
• Customer, product, finance and risk domain knowledge

Operating and maturing AND Digital’s Architecture Review Board (ARB)

• Leading development of the As-Is and To-Be architecture
• Producing a strategic enterprise roadmap aligned to transformation objectives
• Rapidly assessing design questions and providing authoritative recommendations
• Coaching newly hired architects to uplift capability
• Documenting enterprise-level decisions and architecture standards

New team members will join the AND Digital Architecture Function to:

• Provide immediate architectural leadership across priority programmes
• Produce the enterprise architecture baseline and target state
• Support prioritisation and decision-making in partnership with the iPMO
• Deliver structured design artefacts and governance models
• Build internal architectural capability through coaching and knowledge transfer

From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:

• We’re built for people - like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
• There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love - but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience.
• Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.

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