Lead Enterprise Architect

Anglian Water Services • Lincoln, NE

6d • $80,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Enterprise Architect is a strategic partner to the business, aligning organisational goals and capabilities with technical architecture to drive digital transformation and innovation. As a senior member of the Digital Architecture Practice, you will provide trusted Enterprise Architecture leadership across multiple business areas. You’ll support the development of digital strategy and guide both individual and cross-cutting architectural decisions, ensuring technology solutions are aligned with business priorities. Using your deep expertise across architecture domains, you will shape and influence digital initiatives, providing strategic direction that enables scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions. You’ll promote adaptive and distributed decision-making, working closely with business leaders, product owners, and technical teams to embed architectural thinking into product development and delivery. You will take a cross-organisational view of the architecture landscape, identifying synergies, reducing duplication, and managing shared risks. By maintaining a clear view of dependencies and roadmaps, you’ll help define strategies that maximise value and optimise outcomes across the enterprise. In addition, this role includes people leadership responsibility for the Enterprise Architecture team. You’ll provide direction, coaching, and performance management, supporting the ongoing development of the team and ensuring it operates effectively in line with organisational and practice objectives. As Lead Enterprise Architect, you will act as a strategic partner to the business, translating organisational goals into clear, actionable architectural direction. You will build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, guiding digital initiatives, fostering collaboration, and promoting innovation and continuous improvement across the organisation. You will lead enterprise architecture activities, developing and maintaining reference architectures, defining principles and guardrails, and ensuring alignment between business strategy and technical delivery. You’ll provide guidance and mentorship to architects and teams, facilitating informed decision-making, optimising roadmaps, and managing risks across the architecture landscape. In addition, you will lead and develop the Enterprise Architecture team, championing a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative culture. You will oversee governance processes, maintain EA tools and practices, and drive consistency and innovation across the Digital Architecture Practice, ensuring architecture delivers real value to the business.

Requirements

• Being an EA enthusiast with a passion and knowledge of architecture best practices, patterns, standards, and frameworks.
• Significant experience in a customer facing architecture roles responsible for development of technical capabilities and roadmaps aligned to customer demand and industry trends.
• Experience of operating within an Agile delivery function and culture of continuous integration, delivery & improvement.
• Experience working in a matrix-managed organisation.
• A strong ability to form good relationships with a diverse set of very senior stakeholders in all parts of an organisation and able to facilitate conflict resolution and negotiation.
• Experience of coaching technical delivery resources to ensure the appropriate interpretation and adoption of practices.
• Familiar with a broad range of technology concepts and vendors (particularly Microsoft and SAP)
• Knowledge management skills with experience of building knowledge repositories that encourage collaboration and inputs.
• Experience or knowledge of EA modelling languages including ArchiMate.
• Experience of operating and defining strategies, and future and transition states within a large complex enterprise.
• Experience of people management

Responsibilities

• Translating organisational goals into clear, actionable architectural direction
• Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
• Guiding digital initiatives
• Fostering collaboration
• Promoting innovation and continuous improvement across the organisation
• Developing and maintaining reference architectures
• Defining principles and guardrails
• Ensuring alignment between business strategy and technical delivery
• Providing guidance and mentorship to architects and teams
• Facilitating informed decision-making
• Optimising roadmaps
• Managing risks across the architecture landscape
• Leading and developing the Enterprise Architecture team
• Championing a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative culture
• Overseeing governance processes
• Maintaining EA tools and practices
• Driving consistency and innovation across the Digital Architecture Practice

Benefits

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees