Enterprise Architect

Hours: 35 Hours per week, Hybrid Working

Closing Date: Sun, 29 Sept 2024

We are recruiting for an Enterprise Architect that will join a newly formed EA function. If you’re interested in helping shape a brand-new capability, connecting and realizing technology value to our organizational purpose, and making a strategic difference in an organization, then this may be the job for you!

Who Are We?

Not just another building society. Not just another job. We're the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us different is that we're a mutual organization. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members.

Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do. Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

You will be joining a newly formed Enterprise Architecture and Technology Strategy team. The team will grow over coming months as we design the function. The team will work closely with our corporate planning team and our strategic change team. It will define the EA processes, how it fits into our agile journey, own and develop our technology strategy, and give vision and direction to 500+ technology & change colleagues.

What’s In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space. We have a range of other benefits available to you including:

1. Annual discretionary bonus scheme
2. 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
3. Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
4. Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
5. Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
6. Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
7. A commitment to training and development
8. Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
9. 3 paid volunteering days per annum
10. Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
11. We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

What Will You Be Doing?

You will:

1. Build and maintain an enterprise and technical architecture framework, and corresponding guidance and standards to ensure architecture is fit for purpose.
2. Facilitate alignment between business and technology teams maintaining relationships and telling the future state story.
3. Support business strategy and create and maintain our technology strategy.
4. Create and own the organization's business capability maps, their mapping to business outcomes and transitionary and end state architectures.
5. Partner with senior executives and value stream leaders to provide counsel, guidance, and direction in support of business vision and outcomes.

What Do We Need From You?

Influence - Initiates influential relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers, and partners at senior management level, including industry leaders. Makes decisions which impact the work of employing organization's achievement of organizational objectives and financial performance.

Complexity - Performs highly complex work activities covering technical, financial, and quality aspects. Has deep expertise in own specialism(s) and an understanding of its impact on the broader business and wider customer/organization.

Knowledge - Takes the initiative to advance own skills and those skills required in their area of accountability. Familiarity with enterprise architecture tools, related graphical models, and frameworks. Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics. Insight into information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.

Business Skills - Demonstrates leadership in organizational management. Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology in the employing organization. Mentors management colleagues. Identifies and endorses opportunities to adopt new technologies and digital services. Creatively applies a wide range of innovative and/or management principles to realize business benefits aligned to the organizational strategy. Communicates authoritatively at all levels across the organization to both technical and non-technical audiences articulating business objectives.