Enterprise Architect

Who you are

• Significant experience in Enterprise Architecture, Technology Strategy, Chief Architecture or a comparable senior architecture role within a complex digital organisation
• A track record of developing enterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures and transformation roadmaps
• Experience influencing technology decisions across multiple teams, products, domains and collaborators without relying on direct authority
• Experience clarifying and managing complex technology portfolios while balancing strategic objectives with delivery and operational realities
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, SaaS ecosystems, enterprise integration patterns and modern software delivery practices
• Ability to evaluate technology investments and platform choices from both technical and business perspectives
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to make complex concepts clear and relevant to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leaders
• Critical thinking combined with a pragmatic approach to delivery constraints and operational needs
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across organisational and functional boundaries
• Experience working across a wide technology spectrum covering various products, platforms, and business areas
• Experience supporting the development of Product & Technology operating models
• Experience delivering architectural dire

What the job involves

• Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Enterprise Architect will develop and sustain the long-term technology architecture strategy throughout the FT’s Technology organisation
• You will deliver enterprise-wide architectural direction, supporting the alignment of our technology investments, platforms, capabilities, and operating models to evolve consistently and sustainably
• Partnering closely with Technology Directors, Product leaders, Principal Technical Architects, and Data teams, you will connect technology strategy with business priorities while balancing innovation, resilience, operational efficiency, and long-term maintainability
• The FT has a diverse technology landscape spanning editorial, subscription, commercial, data and enterprise platforms
• You will maintain a strategic view across this estate, finding opportunities to simplify and modernise our technology and improve alignment across teams, domains and platforms
• This is a strategic role at the enterprise level rather than a solution or technical architecture position. It centers on technology strategy, governance, portfolio oversight, and organisational alignment, rather than the design and delivery of individual systems or programmes
• As a reliable consultant to the CTO and Technology Senior Leadership Team, you will help shape the future direction of technology at the FT
• Develop and maintain the enterprise technology strategy, target-state architecture and associated roadmaps, ensuring technology investments, platforms and capabilities support the FT’s long-term objectives
• Maintain a company-wide perspective on technology platforms, products, services, and capabilities, evaluating major initiatives and investments in relation to enterprise architecture principles and strategic goals
• Find opportunities to simplify, modernise and rationalise the technology estate, reducing duplication, technical debt, operational complexity and unnecessary cost
• Define and uphold enterprise architecture principles, standards, and governance processes, chairing architecture review forums and guiding strategic technology decision-making
• Work alongside Technology and Product leaders to transform business priorities into technology capability roadmaps, aiding the continuous advancement of the Product & Technology operating model and technology investment priorities
• Offer architectural direction for key organisational, platform, and technology transformation projects
• Provide strategic oversight of technology lifecycles, platform strategy, build-versus-buy decisions and major technology suppliers, ensuring clear approaches to adoption, modernisation and retirement
• Ensure technology risks, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs are acknowledged and suitably addressed within the technology portfolio
• Serve as a reliable consultant to the CTO and Technology Senior Leadership Team regarding technology strategy, architecture, and investment decisions
• Build strong relationships across Product, Engineering, Data and Delivery functions, creating alignment around architectural priorities and strategic direction
• Advocate for long-term thinking while balancing the practical realities of delivery and operational needs
• Foster a culture of simplicity, collaboration, transparency and continuous improvement throughout the Technology organisation

Benefits

• A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
• Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
• Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
• Pension contribution
• Local health coverage plans
• Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
• Financial wellbeing products and services