Enterprise Architect

As an Enterprise Architect, you will define and govern the enterprise architecture framework across business, data, applications and technology domains. Acting as the bridge between strategy and delivery, you will ensure that major programmes and investment decisions are aligned to organisational priorities, regulatory requirements and operational resilience.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Digital, Operations, Commercial and Finance to translate strategic objectives into clear architectural roadmaps. Leading architecture governance and assurance, you will guide domain and solution architects, promote best practice and ensure solutions are secure, compliant and built for long term sustainability.

This is a senior, high visibility role influencing how technology enables growth, efficiency and resilience across the airport ecosystem.

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, principles and reference models across business, information, applications and technology domains
• Ensure architectural alignment with the airport's strategic goals, transformation roadmap and regulatory requirements
• Lead enterprise architecture governance, including review boards and assurance activities for major programmes and initiatives
• Collaborate with business leaders to translate strategic objectives into architecture roadmaps and solution blueprints
• Advise on technology investment decisions and solution evaluations from an enterprise architecture perspective
• Ensure integration of sustainability, cybersecurity and resilience principles into architecture decisions

• Experience as an Enterprise Architect working across multiple architecture domains, preferably in a regulated environment with complex interconnected operations, safety and security constraints, and a high customer impact
• Enterprise Architecture modelling, using Archimate 3.x, preferably using BizzDesign. This will include capturing the current architecture baseline across business, data, applications and technology, as well as modelling target and interim states to support portfolio and investment planning.
• Demonstrable experience of transformation in one or more of the following: Transport/aviation sector systems, customer centric digital platforms, enterprise integration or critical national infrastructure.
• Experience of managing architecture governance and assurance, ensuring design decisions align with strategy, best practice and implement appropriate risk treatment.
• Engaging senior stakeholders, communicating effectively, presenting outcomes and rational without the need for stakeholders to understand technical details.
• Demonstrable experience of working with Agile delivery at scale (e.g. experience with Scaled Agile Framework or equivalent)

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance based annual bonuses and our longer term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

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