Lead Enterprise Architect

Leidos; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000

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Lead Enterprise Architect

Join our UK Team who are committed to a Mission!

We are seeking a Lead Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal role in a large Supply Chain ERP transformation, particularly leveraging Oracle Fusion. This is a SFIA Level 7 role, requiring leadership, strategic vision, and technical expertise to shape enterprise architecture and drive digital transformation.

THE ROLE YOU WILL PLAY

As the Lead Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment with business strategy and technology roadmaps. You will lead architectural governance, provide technical assurance, and guide transformation initiatives to modernise supply chain ERP capabilities, ensuring seamless integration with legacy systems.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to ensure architecture decisions enable agility, innovation, and long-term sustainability.

Your role will involve:

• Define the strategic architecture vision, ensuring alignment with Supply Chain ERP modernisation objectives.
• Establish and oversee enterprise architecture standards, ensuring compliance with regulatory and security requirements.
• Lead a team of architects and provide guidance on solution design, integration, and best practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insight on emerging technologies and their impact on supply chain operations.
• Drive the adoption of Oracle Fusion ERP, cloud-based solutions, data-driven architectures, and interoperability frameworks.
• Architectural designs meet security, regulatory, and performance requirements, particularly within a SIAM (Service Integration and Management) environment.
• Mentor and develop internal teams, ensuring knowledge transfer and architectural best practices are embedded within the organisation.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in enterprise architecture, ERP transformation, and IT strategy within a complex, regulated environment.
• Experience of transformation using integrations to segment legacy systems and progressively transform in logical phases.
• Experience of Oracle Fusion ERP, cloud computing (Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud), enterprise integration, data architecture, and modern software architectures.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing enterprise-wide architectural governance and standards.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with senior stakeholders, translate business needs into technical strategies, and drive architectural decisions.
• Expertise in TOGAF or similar enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Experience working within a SIAM model, ensuring interoperability across multiple service providers.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks (ISO 27001, NCSC guidelines) and secure-by-design principles.
• Familiarity with ERP transformation, supply chain modernisation, and integration of Oracle Fusion.
• Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and architectural modelling tools (e.g. Cameo, ArchiMate, EA Sparx).

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in supply chain ERP transformation, logistics, or procurement systems.
• Understanding of AI/ML, automation, and emerging digital technologies.
• Certification in TOGAF, ITIL v4, or cloud architecture frameworks (Azure/AWS/Oracle Cloud Architect). Exposure to data science and analytical tooling such as SAS or Posit.
• Design and development of solutions in performance critical environments.

This position is a full time, permanent role and applicants must have (or be able to acquire) SC clearance. Ad-hoc travel may be required to various customer and Leidos sites.

Main site Nottingham (Hybrid - On-site average 3 days per week).

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working

Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:
Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services; our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.