We are seeking an experienced and visionary Enterprise Architect to design and deliver digital solutions and capabilities for Gigaclear, a provider of fibre broadband services connecting rural Britain. With a strong customer focus, you will design a target state and architecture roadmap, lead a team of solution architects, and identify new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize the business.
Key Accountability & Responsibilities
- Define and lead the enterprise architecture vision, aligning it with business strategy and programme objectives
- Act as the technical authority for our technology stack, providing architectural direction and technology roadmap evolution
- Lead a team of solution architects to provide architecture solutions to drive key business outcomes
- Deliver technical thought leadership, driving innovation, standardisation, and adoption of best practices across BSS/OSS layers
- Establish and enforce technical governance frameworks and architecture principles across the technology teams
- Ensure architecture artefacts, decision logs, and design documentation meet compliance, quality, and audit requirements
- Facilitate architecture reviews, design assurance, and risk management activities with internal and external stakeholders
- Lead the design of scalable, modular, and resilient BSS/OSS solutions, integrating with legacy systems and modern platforms
- Oversee solution architecture workstreams across multiple delivery teams and ensure consistency with target state architecture
- Translate business and operational requirements into technology designs that are deliverable within resource constraints
- Document and communicate the technology designs to the delivery teams and provide support in the execution of the delivery of the programme
- Engage and influence client stakeholders, third party vendors, and system integrators to drive architectural consensus
- Present complex technical solutions in clear, compelling ways to both technical and non technical audiences
Knowledge & Skills
- Experience in enterprise architecture roles, with recent experience in telecoms sector
- Proven success in leading architecture for large scale BSS/OSS initiatives
- Strong understanding of telecom standards, protocols and technologies (including Salesforce Commscloud and integrated tools and systems)
- Strong capability in architecture governance, enterprise frameworks (eg. TOGAF), and agile or hybrid programme delivery
- Experience in driving end to end integration and managing cross functional architecture inputs
- Exceptional communication, negotiation and leadership skills
- Strong knowledge of both on premise and cloud infrastructure, DevOps and security
- Deep experience in data architecture and technology implementation
We foster a collaborative, engaging culture that empowers staff to grow and maximise their skills. We want to challenge our people in a fair environment where hard work is rewarded and a path for progression is open to all.
Benefits
- Generous employer pension; up to 8% matchedcontribution
- Income protection& life assurance
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), holiday purchase scheme and Yay Days!
- Health cash plan, 24/7 remote GP access and Employee Assistance Programme including counselling & legaladvice
- Unlimited access to online training and development content via our Learning Management System
- Long servicebenefitsand monthly employee recognition
- Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions
- Flexible working environment
- Health & Wellbeing initiatives andcompany fundedsocialevents
Our Approach is to work guided by our mission, vision and values. Mission
Empowering communities with brilliant broadband
Vision
Connected Communities
Values
Own it, Find the Right Way, Work Together, Win Together