Head of Digital Strategy - Architecture

• Develop and maintain the enterprise digital strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Build global architectural standards and capabilities, partnering with delivery teams to ensure consistent implementation
• Own and maintain a global technology roadmap that anticipates future business and technical needs
• Lead the creation and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and principles
• Oversee domain architects (AI, application, data, infrastructure, security) to ensure consistent architecture practices
• Govern architecture decisions to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, cost effective, and strategically aligned
• Define standardised processes, set guardrails for local variations, and conduct regular audits to ensure global consistency and compliance across key digital domains
• Chair the Castrol digital design authority; ensuring all digital projects conform to Castrol's reference architecture
• Own the digital portfolio, ensuring investment decisions reflect risk, organisational capability, and strategic alignment
• Strengthen design and engineering assurance through clear governance models, design reviews, and early risk identification and mitigation
• Drive digital roadmaps across areas such as cloud and security, ensuring cohesive transformation across platforms
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence
• Manage key digital vendors
• Build strong relationships with product, engineering, and senior digital leadership
• Lead and develop a team of Enterprise and Solution architects on the execution of the digital strategy
• Define and implement Castrol's data strategy - including support of IoT; industrialisation strategy
• Ensure the continued development of Castrol's strategic data assets, including HDW
• Develop, own and implement the roadmap for new data sources and integration
• Ensure data quality measures are established and data quality maintained
• Embed M/AI capabilities into core platform
• Establish data guidelines for projects to follow

Requirements

• Extensive experience in global enterprise and solution architecture (or related field)
• relevant architecture accreditation/certification (e.g. TOGAF)
• Solid grounding in cloud platforms (Azure)
• microservices and APIs
• data architecture (EDW, data mesh, analytics)
• security architecture principles
• platform and engineering enablement
• Deep experience in advanced analytics and AI
• Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture tools and frameworks (e.g. capability models)
• Proven ownership of multi-year, enterprise-wide architecture strategy within a global, multi-site business
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Fluency in English, with excellent written communication skills

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in global enterprise and solution architecture, with a strong focus on cloud platforms, data architecture, and advanced analytics. Proven ability to lead teams, govern architecture decisions, and implement strategic digital roadmaps aligned with business objectives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Global Enterprise Architecture
• Cloud Platforms (Azure)
• Data Architecture (EDW, Data Mesh, Analytics)
• Architecture Accreditation (TOGAF)
• Advanced Analytics and AI

ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Microservices
• APIs
• Security Architecture Principles
• Data Quality Management
• Digital Strategy Development
• Digital Portfolio Management
• Governance Models
• Data Integration

Soft Skills

• Leadership
• Communication
• Relationship Building
• Innovation
• Continuous Improvement

Certifications & Qualifications

• TOGAF

Industry Keywords

• Digital Strategy
• Global Technology Roadmap
• Architecture Frameworks
• Digital Transformation
• Data Strategy

Tools & Technologies

• Enterprise Architecture Tools
• Capability Models
• IoT Support
• Digital Design Authority
• Engineering Assurance