Enterprise Architect, Vice President in London

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for defining, governing, and advancing State Street’s enterprise technology architecture to enable strategic business objectives, regulatory compliance, and long term platform sustainability. This role shapes current and target state architecture, establishes architecture standards and reference architectures, and influences technology investment and solution design decisions across the enterprise in alignment with State Street’s technology and business strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Target State: Define and evolve enterprise and domain-level architecture strategies aligned to State Street’s business, risk, and technology goals. Research and utilize AI for automating Enterprise Architecture tasks. Develop and maintain current state and target state architecture views to reduce complexity, technology debt, and cost while improving agility and scalability. Guide platform convergence and modernization initiatives, including cloud, data, and integration architectures.
• Architecture Governance & Decision Support: Participate in and support architecture governance forums (e.g., Technology Review Board, New Technology Adoption processes, ATO/ARB) to ensure alignment with approved standards and patterns. Evaluate solution designs for compliance with enterprise architecture principles, standards, policies, and regulatory expectations (e.g., FFIEC aligned practices). Provide decision ready recommendations to technology and business leaders on architecture trade offs and investment choices.
• Standards, Patterns & Reference Architecture: Define, document, and govern architecture principles, standards, patterns, and reference architectures to promote reuse and consistency across the technology estate. Enable solution standardization while allowing appropriate flexibility for business needs in a hybrid, global environment.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with engineering, platform, security, risk, and business teams to embed architecture guardrails into delivery processes. Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders, product owners, and delivery teams. Support cross functional initiatives that improve enterprise architecture maturity and operating effectiveness.
• Operational & Regulatory Enablement: Support architecture related regulatory and audit requirements by ensuring EA practices meet compliance expectations and are supported by documented processes and artifacts. Contribute to continuous improvement of EA processes, tooling, and metrics.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, with enterprise scale systems in complex, regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF based practices).
• Demonstrated experience influencing architecture decisions across large, federated organizations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into executive level insights.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services or highly regulated industries.
• Hands on experience with cloud platforms, data architectures, and modern integration patterns.
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations impacting enterprise architecture (e.g., FFIEC aligned control areas).
• Experience working within hybrid (central/federated) architecture models.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and systems perspective
• Governance and risk aware decision making
• Stakeholder influence without direct authority
• Pragmatic architecture leadership (“guardrails, not gates”)
• Ability to balance standardization with innovation

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