Overview
In this strategic, leadership role you will define and drive the organisation's technology vision, aligning platforms, data capabilities, and emerging tech with business goals. You’ll partner with the CTO and senior stakeholders to modernise core systems, reduce technical debt, and enable sustainable growth. You’ll shape the target-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps to support operational excellence and future innovation. This role offers influence over executive decisions and a clear opportunity to impact technology-enabled outcomes.
Pay / Benefits
- private medical insurance
- income protection insurance
- discounted gym membership
- professional funding
- remote/work flexibility
- ESG involvement opportunities
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain enterprise technology strategy and multi-year roadmap
- Assess technology landscape and platform investments for business alignment and regulatory compliance
- Define target-state architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, and security
- Establish architecture standards and integration principles for core platforms
- Lead strategic evaluations, business cases, and transformation initiatives including platform modernisation and migrations
- Evaluate technology options for TCO, business value, scalability, and operational impact
- Manage vendor relationships, contracts, roadmaps, and escalation
- Drive adoption and change management to maximise value of technology investments
- Advise senior leadership on emerging technologies and market trends
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to align architecture with current and future needs
Key requirements
- Significant experience in technology leadership, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or digital transformation
- Proven track record delivering large-scale technology transformation, modernisation, or migration programmes
- Strong understanding of EA principles, systems integration, and technology governance
- Experience developing technology roadmaps aligned to business objectives
- Commercially astute with vendor management and contract negotiation experience
- Ability to evaluate complex technology options and communicate to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong stakeholder management with experience influencing senior leaders
- Excellent strategic thinking, planning, and problem-solving abilities
- stakeholder management
- communication to diverse audiences
- strategic thinking
- enterprise architecture
- systems integration
- technology governance
Head of Enterprise Architecture & Strategy employer: DAC Beachcroft
Join our prestigious London-based Construction Professional Indemnity team, where you will be part of a collaborative and dynamic work culture that values professional growth and development. As a Junior Project Associate, you will have the opportunity to work on complex, high-value matters alongside experienced colleagues, gaining invaluable insights into the construction and insurance sectors. With a strong focus on employee well-being and a hybrid working model, we offer a supportive environment that encourages innovation and teamwork, making us an excellent employer for those seeking meaningful and rewarding careers.
