Enterprise Architect - #2181007

Enterprise Architect - GCIO Chief Controls Office | Sheffield | 3 days Hybrid

Overview

We are partnering with a global investment bank who are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to join a strategic transformation programme within the GCIO Chief Controls Office.

This role will lead the definition of the future-state architecture for technology risk, controls, compliance and assurance capabilities across the organisation. The successful candidate will help simplify a fragmented technology landscape, establish common standards and patterns, and drive the adoption of a more automated, data-led and control-by-design operating model.

Working across Cyber, CTO, Business Technology and Infrastructure CIO functions, you will provide architectural leadership to consolidate tooling, improve control effectiveness, increase automation and create a consistent approach to technology risk management.

This is a highly visible role requiring strong enterprise architecture expertise, significant stakeholder management capability and experience driving transformation across complex, heavily regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target-state enterprise architecture for technology risk, controls, compliance and assurance capabilities.
• Assess the current technology landscape across tooling, data, workflow, evidence management and control execution platforms.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and consolidate existing capabilities.
• Develop enterprise target-state, transition-state and roadmap architectures that support strategic transformation objectives.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures and reusable "golden paths".
• Enable the adoption of control-by-design principles by embedding controls into technology and engineering processes.
• Drive improvements in automation, control execution and evidence collection capabilities.
• Translate policy, governance and control requirements into practical and scalable technology solutions.
• Present architectural options, trade-offs, risks and recommendations to senior governance and architecture forums.
• Collaborate with technology, engineering, cyber security, risk and controls stakeholders to align strategic objectives and implementation plans.
• Support the adoption and implementation of architecture standards across multiple technology functions.
• Provide architectural leadership across strategic programmes while maintaining an enterprise-wide perspective.

Required Experience

• Significant experience operating as an Enterprise Architect, Principal Enterprise Architect, Lead Enterprise Architect or Chief Architect.
• Proven experience defining enterprise target-state architectures and transition roadmaps within large, complex organisations.
• Demonstrable success simplifying fragmented technology estates and driving standardisation at scale.
• Strong understanding of technology risk, IT controls, governance, compliance or cyber security domains.
• Experience developing enterprise-wide architecture standards, reference architectures and reusable design patterns.
• Strong understanding of enterprise platforms, integration architectures, APIs, data architecture and automation technologies.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across CIO, CTO, CISO, Engineering and Risk functions.
• Ability to balance strategic design with practical implementation and organisational adoption.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Experience

• Financial Services, Banking, Investment Banking or Insurance sector experience.
• Experience delivering technology controls transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to GRC, risk management, compliance or assurance platforms.
• Experience embedding controls within cloud, platform engineering, DevOps or modern software delivery practices.
• Knowledge of controls automation, operational resilience or enterprise governance frameworks.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will help the organisation achieve:

• A clearly defined enterprise target-state architecture for technology risk and controls.
• Greater standardisation across tooling, processes and control execution.
• Reduced duplication across platforms and technology investments.
• Improved quality, consistency and auditability of control evidence.
• Increased automation of controls and compliance activities.
• Strong adoption of enterprise standards, patterns and architecture principles.
• A pragmatic and deliverable roadmap from the current state to the future-state architecture.

Candidate Profile

This role is best suited to a senior Enterprise Architect who has successfully delivered organisation wide transformation initiatives and can demonstrate experience operating across multiple technology functions.

You will be comfortable working at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise architecture, governance and technology transformation, bringing stakeholders together around a common architectural vision and driving adoption across a complex enterprise environment.