At M&S, we're transforming and modernising our approach to technology, ensuring the business continues to differentiate through strategic technology investments and growing our architecture capability as a key enabler.

As an Enterprise Architect for cloud and Infrastructure, you will be a technical leader focused on delivering customer-centric outcomes, leveraging the latest in public cloud and data center technologies. You will lead and mentor architectural resources to achieve business goals, develop and own Enterprise Architecture roadmaps, and apply industry best practices to support strategic objectives. Collaborating with senior partners, engineers, and across product tribes, you will ensure alignment of architectural, business, product, and technical priorities.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you'll do

1. Decide on architectural strategic technology & vendor choices/selection for the architecture landscape and TCO economic ambition, bringing together technical depth and breadth in a drive towards a single vision.
2. Set direction on 1-3-year target architectures, transitional states, blueprints, principles, standards & rolling adaptable costed roadmaps for your area, in collaboration with D&T product, engineering, data, and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business needs and overall architecture.
3. Participate in architecture governance, ensuring artefacts are well understood, clear, simple, and collaboratively created, guiding transition roadmaps from business cases to implementation.
4. Be accountable for the definition, delivery, security, and performance of all architecture building blocks across your landscape.
5. Drive communities of interest, including engineers and architects, to research, experiment, and improve business outcomes, while creating and championing architectural principles and best practices.