Technical Architect

Overview

Department: IS

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: James Kirby

Lead Technical Enterprise Architecture within the Technology Team. The role is responsible for establishing maintaining and enforcing architectural standards while exploring the latest IT trends. You will work across multiple projects and teams on challenges that require broad architectural thinking. Help guide project colleagues using architectures, principles, standards and tooling to deliver new systems or enhance existing systems. Gathering stakeholder opinions and balancing different demands to make design decisions by demonstrating leadership, clarity of thought and impartiality. The role will also require diplomacy to pragmatically deal with objections and trade-offs. Work on complex projects creating 5-year roadmaps for departmental portfolios. Identifying technical debt across the organisation, undertaking exercises to allow us to better understand our current IT estate architecture. Design created roadmaps outlining how we can move toward our target IT architecture.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design and build of the technical architecture of Peninsula's Information Systems, Including:
• Leading the design and evolution of Peninsula's Information Systems architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with business strategy.
• Providing technical governance for technology projects, setting and enforcing architectural standards and best practices across the organisation.
• Collaborating with business and technology stakeholders, including the CTO, to develop and deliver the Information Systems Strategy.
• Facilitate system selection processes, evaluating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and in-house solutions for interoperability, suitability, and value.
• Champion innovation, identifying and implementing opportunities for Artificial Intelligence and automation to enhance business processes.
• Document and communicate current and target state architectures, working closely with Business and Enterprise Architects to ensure clarity and alignment.
• Translate business requirements into robust technical designs, balancing user needs, organisational objectives, and technical constraints.
• Resolve technical disputes and provide clear, accessible explanations of technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and guide delivery teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure compliance with security, data governance, and regulatory requirements in all architectural decisions.
• Working as part of a project team to design and validate Peninsulas Target End State.
• Working as part of a project team to plan the implementation and transition states of Peninsulas Information Systems.
• Documenting how current and future state information systems interact with our business processes. Working alongside our Business Architect.
• Working along side our Enterprise Architect to develop and deliver our enterprise architecture strategy.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture team to change business processes.
• Work closely with delivery teams and be involved in the technical management of teams.
• Drive business continuity and risk management initiatives by designing resilient, future-ready architectures.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in similar role
• Good knowledge of an Enterprise Architecture model Ideally TOGAF
• Familiarity with BPMN Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Management experience

Desirable:

• Ideally used a product such as Orbus Infinity or IServer
• Experience in Oil, Commodity Trading, and or Financial Services
• Low code tools ideally OutSystems