Enterprise Digital Architect (Permanent) in Luton

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Your impact Join Leonardo UK as Domain Architect – Digital Backbone and Digital Employee Experience and take ownership of the target architecture, long-term roadmap and investment story for the platforms every person, product and programme in the business depends on. The Digital Backbone covers the compute, storage, network, datacentre, cloud and platform engineering estate that our business-critical services run on. Digital Employee Experience covers the workplace, collaboration, identity and device estate our people use every day. Both domains are being modernised at pace, and both require clear architectural direction, credible investment planning and disciplined assurance.
It is not primarily a project delivery post: the successful candidate will set the direction that delivery teams work towards, assure that what is built reflects what was designed, agreed and funded, and help shape the investment choices that determine Leonardo UK's future technology foundation.
You will work closely with the Head of Enterprise Architecture UK, the Digital Solutions CTO UK and CTO Italy, fellow Enterprise and Domain Architects, Security Architects, Solution Architects, service owners and technology governance bodies, including the Global Architecture Board. You will be recognised as an authority on the current estate, its direction of travel and the architectural decisions required to make it secure, resilient, affordable and scalable. This role operates on a flexible hybrid working model, with purposeful travel to site for design workshops, architecture boards and key stakeholder sessions.
Own the target state for both domains, convert it into a funded and sequenced multi-year roadmap, assure delivery against it, and raise the standard of architecture practice across the community that builds it. Domain architecture and target state Define and maintain the target architecture across Digital Workplace, Network and Hosting, Cloud and Hybrid, and Platform Engineering, including capability-level views, principles, standards and reference patterns.
Align to Cybersecurity and Monitoring and Observability capability models owned elsewhere in the function, ensuring designs integrate with and are assured against them. Contribute domain content to cross-cutting standards and represent the domains at architecture governance forums.
Demand, risk and emerging technology Bring together the signals that shape the plan: risk and obsolescence, programme and bid demand, growth and acquisition activity, supplier and market direction, and the security threat picture. Roadmaps and long-term planning Own and maintain a rolling three-year domain roadmap with a five-year technology outlook, refreshed on a predictable cycle. Sequence change around the constraints that genuinely matter: hardware and operating system lifecycle, licence and contract renewals, datacentre and cloud commitments, and the rate of change the business can absorb.
Model options and trade-offs — buy or build, cloud or on-premises, refresh or replace — making cost, risk and capability impact explicit. Investment planning Convert roadmap increments into investment items with indicative cost, benefit, dependency and delivery-confidence ranges.
Provide the architecture content for business cases, stage gates and portfolio submissions. Community leadership and mentoring Act as architectural mentor and technical sounding board to Solution and Technical Architects across the delivery portfolio, providing matrix support rather than line management. Run a domain architecture community of practice, including pattern reviews, worked examples, lessons learned and a shared design library. Current, hands-on grounding in at least two of hosting and datacentre, networking, public cloud, platform engineering and digital workplace.
Investment planning: Experience producing the architecture content behind business cases, with a working understanding of cost, run-cost and affordability as architectural properties. A habit of working from risk registers, demand pipelines, lifecycle data and growth forecasts, with sound judgement on which emerging technologies represent a genuine shift. Influence and coaching: Desirable experience includes: hybrid and multi-cloud estates such as Azure and AWS alongside a substantial on-premises footprint; HPC and scientific computing; large-scale workplace transformation across Microsoft 365, Windows, device lifecycle, identity and access; This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you do not have experience across every area. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we're here to help you thrive.
Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning. Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
Spend up to 500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more. Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role. For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. Full time