Enterprise Strategy Architect

• Enterprise Strategy Architect
• Derby, Bristol or London – Full Time Permanent

The Enterprise Strategy Architect is responsible for translating complex organisational, technological, and strategic challenges into clear, actionable direction that supports the delivery of digital and IT strategy across Rolls‑Royce.

Working closely with the Vice President for Digital & IT Strategy, this role acts as a key enabler of alignment across delivery teams and capability workstreams, ensuring that priorities, dependencies, and impacts are well understood.

The position also involves supporting decision‑making by providing structured insight, challenging assumptions, and helping teams understand implications beyond their immediate scope.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrity of delivering the Digital & IT strategy, maintaining alignment with changing enterprise priorities.
• Provide strategic direction and proactive dependency management between the Digital & IT delivery teams.
• Connect financial approvals and outcomes to understand the size, scope, and impact of initiatives.
• Track the evolution of the strategy over time and articulate decision‑making rationale when changes occur.
• Engage all teams through orchestration, articulation of needs, and follow‑up to ensure commitments are delivered.
• Act as deputy to the VP for Digital & IT Strategy.

Qualifications

• Cleared, or able to obtain, clearance to UK SC or above.
• Be a “5‑eyes” national (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA).
• Degree qualified in Engineering, IT, Computing, or a related subject.
• Preferred Skills and Experience
• Expertise in storytelling and articulating problems in language non‑experts can understand.
• Ability to translate business expressions of solutions into required outcomes or capabilities.
• Understanding when a process problem is expressed as a technology issue.
• Strategic judgment to differentiate between major strategic moves and minor adjustments.
• Root‑cause problem solving and probing.
• Preparation and delivery of presentation material.
• Interpersonal skills and relationship building.
• Vision articulation.
• Digital & IT technology proficiency in a business context, and business context proficiency in a digital/IT context.
• Process efficiency and simplification.

Experience

• Enterprise Architecture.
• Strategic Portfolio Management and Dependency Management (ideally Bizz Design Alfabet, but other tools such as Lean IX acceptable).
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Risk Management experience.
• Knowledge
• Process design and modelling.
• Working with major enterprise systems (PLM, ERP, MES, CRM, HCM, etc.).
• Core IT base knowledge (operating systems, databases, cloud technology, security principles).
• Experience in an engineering environment.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave.
• Retirement savings through the Rolls‑Royce Retirement Savings Trust.
• Group life assurance with a lump‑sum benefit.
• Group income protection for illness or injury.
• Shares via “Your Shares: Matched” scheme.
• Digital GP for convenient GP consultations.
• Employee assistance and Live Well programmes.
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