Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Strategic Leadership in Enterprise Architecture

Overview

Springer Nature (SN) is seeking to hire an Enterprise Architect to join our Enterprise Architecture team. As a key member of the team, you will provide thought leadership, strategic direction, and architectural expertise to ensure that our enterprise architecture principles, frameworks, and practices align with the organisation's overall business strategy. You will work across both business and technology domains, ensuring that architecture practices and decisions drive business transformation, enable scalability, and align with industry best practices. This role is pivotal in fostering a consensus-driven, collaborative environment, particularly in organisations with a low architecture mandate.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will work closely with senior leaders, key stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to build the foundations for a robust and future-proof architecture. Your primary focus will be on establishing architecture frameworks, developing architectural principles, and leading cultural change within the organisation.

In this role, you will :

• Work closely with the Chief Architect and other senior stakeholders to shape and drive the enterprise architecture strategy.
• Lead the development, governance, and application of architecture principles and standards across the organisation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and emerging technology trends.
• Support business and technical teams in defining and implementing architecture blueprints and metamodels.
• Champion the adoption of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, or similar, and drive the alignment of these frameworks with business goals and strategies.
• Collaborate with leaders across the organisation to ensure the implementation of enterprise-wide architectural decisions.
• Act as a change agent to foster a culture of architecture in a consensus-driven decision-making environment, with a focus on building collaboration across technical and business teams.
• Provide strategic guidance on emerging technologies, platform architectures, and industry trends that can support and enhance business outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing

Defining and Implementing Architecture Frameworks

Supporting Strategic Business Change

Cultural Change and Consensus Building

Skills Required for the Role

Your Experience

Your Capabilities and Competencies

Your Experience So Far Includes

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Why work here?

We are an ambitious and dynamic organisation, and home to some of the best-known names in research, educational and professional publishing.

Working at the heart of a changing industry, we are always looking for great people who care about delivering quality to our customers and the communities we work alongside. In return, you will find that we open the doors to discovery for all our employees – offering opportunities to learn from some of the best in the business, with a culture that encourages curiosity and empowers people to find solutions and act on their instincts. Whether you are at the beginning of your career or are an experienced professional, we invite you to find out more about the roles we offer and explore our current vacancies.

About Us

We are a global and progressive business, founded on a heritage of trusted and respected brands – including Springer, founded in 1842, Macmillan, founded in 1843 and Nature, first published in 1869.

Nearly two centuries of progress and advancement in science and education have helped shape the business we are today. Research and learning continues to be the cornerstone of progress, and we will continue to open doors to discovery through trusted brands and innovative products and services. Springer Nature Group was created in May 2015 through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media.

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