About the role
OVERALL PURPOSE OF POSITION
The role operates the Airline's Enterprise Architecture function, supporting the alignment of Information Technology (IT) to the business strategy across a large multi-vendor application estate and the wider ecosystem that underpins the operation. The Enterprise Architecture framework spans the business, application, data and integration, and technology architecture domains. It incorporates security architecture requirements, principles, and constraints. The role provides architectural leadership to the Airline's ongoing technology transformation programme, governs Buy/Build/Integrate decisions, and applies recognised standards and best practices to ensure scalability, long-term cost effectiveness, and disciplined management of the IT total cost of ownership and operational efficiency at the Airline's scale. The role provides architectural oversight of all strategic vendors.
Responsibilities
Define, publish, and maintain the Airline's reference architecture, architectural standards, and design principles, applied consistently across on-premises and hybrid multi-cloud environments and covering integration patterns, application portfolio, identity, resilience, software delivery and CI/CD practices, and technology lifecycle.
Maintain current-state and target-state architectures across all five architectural domains, together with the transition plans between them, ensuring that the IT landscape is holistically managed and properly scoped end-to-end.
Establish and chair the Architecture Review Board, acting as the design authority for all material technology change under the Head of IT's accountability. Ensure that architectural decisions are documented, traceable, and consistently applied across internal teams and contracted suppliers, including the assessment of architectural risks and impact analyses for proposed material changes and the provision of architectural guidance across the project and programme delivery lifecycle.
Govern Buy/Build/Integrate decisions, applying the Airline's "Buy before Build" principle and providing architectural input to all material vendor selection and procurement processes.
Hold strategic vendors t…
