Enterprise Architect

About the Role

The Enterprise Architect plays a key role in leading and supporting EA activities that are strategically crucial for the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. These solutions, which encompass projects, products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), shared infrastructure and application services, are at the heart of Queen Mary's success.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for upkeeping and maintaining strategies and standards for all services in the ITS function. Your role will be instrumental in overseeing and improving the services by developing, coordinating, maintaining and enforcing the overall enterprise architecture. Your work will directly connect project and programme strategies, creating a meaningful impact on Queen Mary's overarching goals.

The Enterprise Architect role is an integral part of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function, part of the Office of the CIO within IT Services. In this role, you will report to the Head of Enterprise Architecture and work closely with solution, security, and data architects. You will also line manage solution designers within the EA function, promoting a sense of teamwork and collaboration.

About You

You should have a proven track record as a hands-on Architect, ideally with experience in Enterprise Architecture. You will need to possess expertise across various disciplines, ranging from architecture to operations. A qualification in or a demonstrable understanding of architecture frameworks, including TOGAF, is required.

About the Department

The IT Services function operates within the Professional Services Department and is part of the professional services group that enables and facilitates the success of both our students and faculty. Together with other professional service areas, the Enterprise Architecture team aims to deliver value for money through technology, ensuring efficiency, economy, effectiveness, and equity

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

A temporary market supplement is attached to this post, which is a separate payment in addition to the normal salary. A review of market conditions will be carried out periodically to establish if the market supplement should continue.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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