Location: Cheltenham, UK

Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, On-site gym, Free on-site parking, Salary sacrifice schemes for Technology and Electric Vehicles.

Role Overview

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to work at the intersection of business strategy and technological capability, ensuring that every system, application, infrastructure and data component works together towards common objectives.

Scope: This role has a global remit across 3 distinct business units, as well as a Group entity, and is accountable for working with architectural peers to set the strategic direction of technology. The successful applicant will be UK based and will have 2 Solution Architects as direct reports, to work on detailed designs and proposals. This role will play a key part in governance forums and engaging business and technical colleagues across the global Group.

Responsibilities

• Architecture Strategy & Design
  • Develop the business architecture to understand the business capabilities, processes and their alignment to the future strategy.
  • Identify the gaps and strategic plans and build this into a multi-year roadmap.
  • Define enterprise data architecture and promote data as a strategic asset. Model business, information, application, and technology domains.
• Business Engagement
  • Regular business engagement to understand pain points, opportunities and future objectives to ensure IT alignment and the delivery of business outcomes. Design and maintain a prioritisation framework that evaluates business projects against key criteria, ensuring IT initiatives are ranked based on business value.
• Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Assess the current landscape and create visuals (heatmaps, etc.) for senior leaders that represent costs, risk, and application duplication to support strategic decision making.
• Technology Leadership & Governance
  • Create and maintain a view of the application estate to identify opportunities to reduce costs, risks and optimise investments.
  • Identify and assess risks within the IT environment and propose solutions to mitigate.
  • Define and maintain enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, principles and roadmaps.
  • Provide architectural oversight for solution designs and IT initiatives to ensure compliance with regulatory, security, and operational requirements.
  • Facilitate the Technical Design Authority to ensure solutions and procured technology meet internal standards and best practices.
  • Ensure interoperability, scalability, security, and resilience across systems.
• Innovation
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption for business value.
  • Develop and gain approval for technology strategies to set direction and plan to deliver new capabilities (e.g., cyber security, data, integration).

Your Previous Experience Is Likely To Include…

• 10+ years in IT, with at least 5 years in enterprise, solution or domain architecture roles within large, complex organisations
• A proven track record of driving business-aligned technology strategies and delivering measurable impact
• Expertise in business, application, data, infrastructure domains
• Understanding of cloud platforms, emerging technologies, and digital transformation trends
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF)
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX, Hopex, Abacus)
• Knowledge of modelling frameworks (e.g., Archimate)
• Vendor and technology evaluation expertise
• Risk management and cybersecurity knowledge
• Change management and stakeholder alignment capabilities

To be successful in this role you will…

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times
• Demonstrate strategic thinking and ability to align technology initiatives with business objectives
• Have strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical seniors
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to evaluate complex systems and identify opportunities
• Leadership and influencing skills to guide cross-functional teams
• Ability to create and interpret architectural models, diagrams, and roadmaps
• Skills in portfolio management and technology rationalisation
• Financial experience to assess cost, value, and ROI of technology investments
• Continuous learning mindset to keep up with evolving technology landscape

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering group with expertise in control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and related fluid technologies. Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies support critical industrial processes across industries including Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare, with customers in 165 countries.

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and values, guides our decisions and inspires us. We are committed to creating an equitable working environment where everyone feels included and welcome flexible working arrangements. We operate as a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type
Full-time

Job function
Information Technology

Industries
Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

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