Job Description Enterprise Strategy Architect Derby, Bristol or London Full Time Permanent
Overview
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 our Digital & IT strategy, including maintaining alignment with changing enterprise priorities
- Provide strategic direction and proactive dependency management between the Digital & IT delivery teams
- Connect financial approvals and outcomes so we understand size, scale, and scope of initiatives to realise benefits
- Ensure we can trace the evolution of our strategy over time and when we make changes we can articulate why and the decision making
- Engage all teams via orchestration, articulation of needs and following up to ensure we deliver on our commitments
- Act as deputy to the VP for Digital & IT Strategy
Qualifications & Requirements
- 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 Requirements - Skills and Experience
- Storytelling and articulation of problems in language non experts can understand
- Translation of business expressions of solutions into outcomes/capabilities they need to achieve
- Understanding when a process problem is being expressed as a technology issue
- Knowing when to be strategic and when a minor course alteration is appropriate
- Problem solving and probing for root cause
- Presentation material preparation and delivery
- Interpersonal skills and relationship building
- Articulation of a vision
- Flair for Digital & IT Technology in a Business Context, or vice versa but both skill sets are key
- Efficiency & Simplification of processes
- Experience of Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Portfolio Management and Dependency management (ideally BizzDesign Alfabet but other tools like LeanIX are fine)
- Working in a highly regulated environment
- Risk management
- Knowledge of 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)
- Working in an Engineering Environment
Benefits
- Flexible benefits such as life insurance, gym discounts, tax free cycling
- Generous annual leave
- Retirement savings through the Rolls Royce Retirement Savings Trust
- Group life assurance
- Income protection
- Share scheme - matched shares
- Digital GP consultations
- Employee Assistance and Live Well programmes