Enterprise Architect Full Time

Charities Aid Foundation

Contract: Permanent, full time, 35 hours per week

Location: London or Kent-based with hybrid working

This is an exciting opportunity to join the CAF team during a period of significant change as we look to bring in new roles to support our organisation’s vision and ambitions. The Enterprise Architect role presents the opportunity to be a leader in a major transformation and directly influence the future of the organisation.

What you’ll do

The Enterprise Architect (EA) plays a critical role in aligning business strategy with technical solutions across different organizational levels.

The EA’s scope of activities includes helping the organisation grow revenue, optimising costs and mitigating risks. They will focus on understanding and applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimise business and operating models. The EA’s focus is to help the organisation plan, design, innovate and operationalise the digital enterprise.

They will be responsible for helping business leaders enable their future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive the organisation’s targeted business outcomes through the choice of initiatives the organisation chooses to invest in.

Additionally, the EA will lead the architecture practice as an internal consultancy, developing the architecture team and integrating architecture processes with business and IT functions. They guide the organization in planning, designing, and operationalizing digital strategies, while fostering a creative and supportive environment for the team.

As Enterprise Architect, you will:

• Lead the Architecture Project team – Foundation, Data, Solution, Security and Infrastructure.
• Take ownership and be accountable for the design, governance, implementation and adoption of technology architecture elements within the RENEW Transformation Programme.
• Collaborate and facilitate alignment of key stakeholders (Internal and external), ensuring the function aligns with best practices whilst being scalable and secure.
• Work closely with colleagues in all Group locations, entities and the CAF Network to enable and realise benefits of the new systems. Ensuring synergies, efficiencies, and consistency across the CAF Group for the benefit of the customer.

Who you’ll be:

Credentials and Experience

• Significant experience in at least three disciplines, such as business, information, solution or technical architecture, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations in a multitier environment.
• Experience with Microsoft applications, technologies and architectures is essential.

Skills

• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, micro services, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture.
• Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes.
• Familiarity with basic graphical modelling approaches, tools and model repositories.
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management.
• Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at the enterprise level.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Balance the long-term (“big picture”) and short-term implications of individual decisions and organisation goals.
• Translate business needs into EA requirements.
• Estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives.
• Apply multiple solutions to business problems.
• Rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Capable and comfortable with balancing time between foundational EA (Mode 1: renovating the core of the IT estate, ensuring efficiency and predictability) and vanguard EA efforts (Mode 2: concerned with business and operating model design, technology innovation, speed, agility and flexibility to achieve a unified and flexible EA that meets the organisation’s needs).
• Ready to think, behave and act in an innovative consulting manner to drive the organisation’s digital business strategies.

What’s in it for you

At CAF you will receive:

• Permanent hybrid ways of working where roles allow.
• A wide range of development opportunities to support personal and professional growth.
• Pension scheme with better-than-market employer contribution options.

Who we are

At Charities Aid Foundation we accelerate social progress by providing essential connections between donors, charities and communities.

We safeguard and deliver vital donations, offer expert advisory services and financial products to donors and charities, and provide tailored charity banking through our award-winning bank CAF Bank.

Our purpose is to enable a better landscape for giving and a fair and sustainable future for all.

Diversity and inclusion

We know that the more diverse and inclusive our organisation becomes, the more creative, effective and impactful we will be. Our aim is for our workforce to represent the society we serve, and we have embarked upon an ambitious pathway to achieve this.

We want to attract, retain and develop the best of talent at all levels, and provide a leading and great place to work, where every voice matters.

How to apply

The closing date for applications is 8th December 2024.

Please contact our Recruitment team at to find out more about the role, together with a detailed job description.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. We welcome applications from everyone who feels they meet the criteria, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital, veteran or parental status.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please indicate on the application form if you would like to be considered as part of the Disability Confident Scheme.