organisation, ensuring that the overall enterprise architecture evolves in alignment with business objectives,
industry trends, and emerging opportunities. This role emphasizes strategic foresight, governance, and
standardisation to create a cohesive, sustainable, and adaptable technology landscape across the enterprise.
The Enterprise Architect works across business units and technology domains to establish architectural
principles, frameworks, and standards that guide solution design and delivery. This includes defining target-state
architectures, developing roadmaps for transformation, and ensuring technology investments contribute to
enterprise-wide agility, resilience, and innovation. This position requires a balance of strategic leadership and
technical breadth, with a focus on guiding the enterprise toward a future-ready architecture that supports
scalability, security, sustainability, and continuous business transformation.
REPORTING
To: Architecture & Governance Team Lead
Reports: None
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Governance
 Support and maintain the organisation’s enterprise architecture vision, principles, and frameworks that guide
technology decisions across the enterprise.
 Ensure existing governance processes are followed to ensure solution designs align with enterprise
standards, business strategy, and long-term technology roadmaps.
 Develop and maintain target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for key business domains.
 Drive architectural standardisation, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reusability across the
enterprise portfolio.
Business Alignment and Strategic Advisory
 Partner with executives, business leaders, and platform owners to translate corporate strategy into
enterprise-wide technology capabilities.
 Influence strategic planning by identifying how technology can enable new business models, improve
competitiveness, and drive transformation.
 Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing thought leadership on digital trends, enterprise
technology strategy, and risk management.
 Facilitate business and Digital alignment through enterprise-wide workshops, roadmapping sessions, and
stakeholder engagement.
Enterprise Digital Capability Enablement
 Review and update enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and interoperability models
to ensure seamless information flow across the organization.
 Oversee the design of cross-domain capabilities (e.g., identity management, data platforms, API
ecosystems) that enable enterprise-wide reuse and agility.
 Ensure the technology ecosystem supports innovation, operational excellence, and strategic business
outcomes across all functions.
Risk, Compliance, and Sustainability
 Ensure architectural controls and guardrails are used effectively to mitigate enterprise-level risks, including
security, regulatory, and operational risks.
 Ensure enterprise architecture incorporates compliance with global and regional regulations (e.g., data
privacy, cybersecurity).
 Embed sustainability and ESG considerations into enterprise technology strategy (e.g., cloud efficiency,DRIMS# Page 2 of 2
carbon footprint reduction).
 Anticipate and manage systemic risks arising from technology concentration, vendor dependency, or critical
system failures.
Transformation Leadership
 Lead architecture reviews for major programs and portfolios, ensuring long-term alignment and resilience.
 Support transformation initiatives by shaping architectural blueprints, guiding change adoption, and enabling
scalability.
 Champion enterprise agility by promoting modular architectures, cloud-native adoption, and ecosystem
partnerships.
Knowledge Sharing and Capability Building
 Establish and promote architectural practices, playbooks, and reference models to elevate architectural
maturity across the enterprise.
 Mentor solution and domain architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and
architectural excellence.
 Lead internal forums, councils, or architecture boards to align stakeholders and disseminate best practices.
 Drive continuous improvement of enterprise architecture processes, methodologies, and tools.SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Required Qualifications
 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or
equivalent experience); advanced degree preferred.
 10+ years of experience in senior technology roles, with at least 5 years in enterprise, domain, or solution
architecture leadership.
 Proven track record of defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, standards, and
reference models.
 Extensive experience with enterprise-level systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), integration
strategies, and digital transformation initiatives.
 Broad understanding of business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, and how
they interconnect at an enterprise scale.
 Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API ecosystems, data governance, and interoperability
standards.
 Deep understanding of risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations across complex
organizations.
 Exceptional strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to connect technology decisions to long-term
business outcomes.
 Outstanding communication and influence skills, capable of engaging executives, business leaders, and
technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
 Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
 Industry-recognized enterprise architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, COBIT).
 Experience defining enterprise architecture roadmaps in large, complex organizations.
 Demonstrated success in driving technology modernization, rationalization, and cloud adoption at enterprise
scale.
 Exposure to multiple industries or domains, with the ability to benchmark and adapt leading practices.
 Familiarity with sustainability/ESG-aligned technology strategies (e.g., green IT, sustainable cloud, carbon-
aware architectures).
 Experience leading or advising on enterprise-wide digital transformation programs.
Key Competencies
 Strategic Visioning: Ability to define long-term enterprise architecture direction aligned with business strategy
and emerging trends.
 Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead architecture boards, set standards, and influence senior
executives and delivery teams.
 Business Acumen: Strong understanding of business models, value chains, and how technology enables
competitive advantage.
 Governance & Standards: Skilled at establishing guardrails, frameworks, and architectural policies that
balance innovation with control.DRIMS# Page 3 of 2
 Innovation & Foresight: Ability to evaluate disruptive technologies and propose adoption strategies that
create future-ready capabilities.
 Collaboration & Facilitation: Adept at uniting diverse stakeholders, driving consensus, and managing
enterprise-wide alignment.
 Resilience & Adaptability: Comfortable leading through ambiguity, organizational change, and shifting
business priorities.
 Communication: Ability to distill complex architectural strategies into clear, compelling narratives for
executive and non-technical audiences.
KEY INTERACTIONS
Internal:
 Digital Team, including AI and Data Science
Leads 
 Digital Architecture TeamExternal:
 Industry peers
 Suppliers 
 Contractor and vendors

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