Principal Architect T&S Data & Analytics
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Overview
In this role you lead the data and analytics architecture for Trading & Supply, shaping a scalable, secure, AI-ready data ecosystem. You translate strategy into target architectures and guardrails, guiding cross-domain delivery and enterprise transformation. You partner with business, data, and tech teams to reduce duplication and enable value-driven decisions. You’ll champion data-first design and responsible AI across the enterprise, unlocking scalable, trusted insights.
Pay / Benefits- flexible working hours
- remote/mobile working
- competitive starting salary
- annual performance-related pay increase
- paid parental leave including for non-birthing parents
- diverse and inclusive culture
- Provide architecture leadership aligning business strategy with technology investments
- Shape enterprise architecture direction across multiple domains and ensure coherence, resilience, security, and scalability
- Translate strategy into target architecture, roadmaps, standards, and guardrails across data, integration, cloud, and security
- Ensure cross-domain coherence and resolve conflicts between domain strategies and enterprise targets
- Act as enterprise decision authority for major architectural choices and trade-offs
- Represent architecture in executive governance and advise CIOs and senior stakeholders
- Drive adoption of standards, reusable patterns, and enterprise technology services to reduce duplication and debt
- Lead and develop a multi-layer architecture organisation and capability development
- Set strategic technology direction including lifecycle, simplification, and reuse priorities
- Lead data-first architectural transformation, AI-enabled practices, and AI guardrails
- Embed responsible AI considerations, including data quality, security, privacy, explainability, and regulatory compliance
- Influence technology strategy and transformation using market, regulatory, and business insight
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in IT, CS, Engineering or related field
- Extensive IT experience with senior architecture leadership roles
- Experience in large-scale, multi-domain technology environments
- Proven success in enterprise-wide architecture transformation and strategic initiatives
- Knowledge of trading domain; commodity trading knowledge preferred
- Strategic leadership
- Executive communication and influencing
- Cross-domain collaboration
- Enterprise architecture and governance
- Data platform architecture and integration
- AI/ML platform concepts and governance
Reference: WJ-747_30222967