Enterprise Architect (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Genomics England are hiring an Enterprise Architect. You will work across Genomics England, shaping the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmaps for business and technology capabilities across the organisation, including clinical and diagnostic services, research and discovery platforms, data and digital capabilities, and corporate functions. In this role, you will work closely with business leaders, service designers, user researchers, product managers, engineers, security, data, and third-party suppliers to shape strategic direction, align investment to target architectures, and ensure a coherent approach across enterprise and corporate platforms. The role will form part of an enterprise architecture team, helping define enterprise-wide principles, policies, standards, target states, transition roadmaps, and reusable patterns, while ensuring change across Genomics England aligns with broader organisational strategy, governance, and architecture principles. As an experienced Enterprise Architect, you bring expertise in enterprise architecture leadership, helping teams and stakeholders make effective strategic choices, understand dependencies and trade-offs, and evolve capabilities in a way that is sustainable, coherent, and aligned to successful business outcomes. You will: - Work with the wider enterprise architecture team to define and maintain target enterprise architectures, principles, and roadmaps across clinical, research, data, digital, and corporate capabilities, ensuring alignment to organisational strategy and priorities. - Provide enterprise architecture leadership across Genomics England, shaping a coherent technology and capability landscape across business functions. - Develop enterprise-wide architecture views across business, data, applications, integrations, and technology platforms. - Work with senior stakeholders to translate business strategy into target states, investment priorities, and phased transition plans. - Establish and promote architecture standards, reference models, reusable patterns, and governance approaches that support consistency and informed decision-making. - Assess current-state architecture, identify duplication, risk, complexity, and opportunities for rationalisation or improvement across enterprise and SaaS platforms. - Guide major initiatives and programmes to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, strategic roadmaps, and intended business outcomes. - Collaborate with security, data, engineering, delivery, and procurement teams to ensure architecture decisions reflect regulatory, operational, financial, and technical considerations. - Work with vendors and third-party providers to assess strategic fit, support product selection, and shape sustainable operating models. - Communicate architectural direction, trade-offs, and roadmaps clearly to senior leaders and delivery teams, building understanding and support for change. - Foster a culture of collaboration, architectural rigour, pragmatic decision-making, and horizon scanning across teams and domains. Essential Skills and Experience:  - Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect, or in a similar strategic architecture role, within a complex organisation. - Strong experience developing enterprise architecture artefacts such as principles, policies, standards, target architectures, roadmaps, reference models, and capability maps. - Experience shaping architecture strategy across business-facing corporate systems, SaaS platforms, and enterprise services. - Strong experience engaging with senior stakeholders to shape, influence, and align strategic direction, investment choices, and architectural priorities. - Ability to connect business strategy, operating model, information, application, and technology concerns into coherent enterprise architecture views. - Experience establishing and applying architecture governance, standards, and decision-making processes across multiple teams or domains. - Good understanding of identity, security, data, integration, and service management considerations across enterprise platforms. - Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust and alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Knowledge of enterprise architecture tooling such as Abacus. - Experience applying TOGAF methodologies or equivalent enterprise architecture practices. Desirable Skills and Experience:  - Knowledge of hybrid cloud, enterprise integration, and modern SaaS operating models. - Experience supporting portfolio alignment, investment governance, or architecture review processes. - Experience operating in healthcare or other regulated/data-sensitive environments. - Enterprise architecture certification (such as TOGAF), cloud certification, or relevant SaaS platform certification.