Enterprise Technical Architect

The Enterprise Technical Architect is responsible for supporting the definition, governing, and evolving the organisation's technology architecture to support strategic business objectives. Acting as a bridge between business intiiatives and technology delivery, the role ensures that technology investments, platforms, applications, infrastructure, data capabilities, and security controls align with the organisation's long-term vision, architecture principles, and operational requirements.

The Enterprise Technical Architect provides support on architectural direction, technology standards, and solution design, ensuring that new initiatives deliver business value while maintaining a scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology landscape. The role works across multiple programmes, partnering with business stakeholders, delivery teams, supplier teams, and product owners to support architectural consistency and technical excellence.

Success in this role will be demonstrated through the delivery of a coherent technology solutions, reduced architectural complexity, increased technology re-use, improved governance and risk management, successful delivery of strategic change programmes, and the further delivery of a modern, scalable, secure technology estate aligned to organisational goals.

The role will operate in an environment where most of the technology delivery is done by third party providers. So will require engagement with the multiple teams across those providers.

The role holder will report to the Head of Technology Strategy and Architecture.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

• Experience (5+) designing and governing complex enterprise technology environments.
• Broad understanding of enterprise architecture disciplines, cloud platforms, application architecture, integration patterns, infrastructure, data management, and cyber security.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, together with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts and influence decision-making at all levels of the organisation.
• An understanding of emerging global trends in technology.
• Experience of working with outsourced 3 rd party technology providers

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)

Directorate/Department Overview

The Nest Technology Strategy and Architecture team sits within our Services and Solutions department with responsibilities covering technology, change management, operations, data analytics and customer insights.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age , disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you're applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

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