Enterprise Architect

Why this job matters

At BT Digital we are driving the digital transformation of a top UK brand. We’re creating new experiences for our customers and also entering new markets such as fintech and healthcare.

The platform architecture team is leading a change in how BT designs its technology. We are working across all our customer-facing units, and helping them reorganise their technology stack as a set of reusable products. We also help introduce platform thinking into the way BT interacts with its customers and commercial partners.

As an enterprise architect in the platform architecture team, you will help BT design the overall platform landscape that enables our offer to our customers.

For this role we welcome applications from experienced architects, but also from technical business analysts, developers, engineers, or others who wish to move an architecture role.

• Promote a culture where BT’s technology capabilities are designed as products.
• Ensure best practices are followed in the architecture design of platforms and solutions.
• Identify opportunities for reuse, simplification and productisation within the technology stack.
• Engage extensively with colleagues in multiple teams, learn about their use cases and influence their design work.
• Challenge design work that can benefit from stronger platform-oriented thinking.
• Make architecture recommendations related to specific capabilities and domain areas such as payment or identity.
• Coordinate the creation of strategic road maps for implementing platform designs.
• Recommend sensible phasing of complex technical work.
• Review architecture designs produces by colleagues and provide constructive feedback.
• Create high-quality documentation of principles, designs, business cases, and reference/baseline/transitional/target architectures.

• Interest in helping BT establish a platform economy around technology products, both internally and externally.
• Confidence in technology design practices, such as loose coupling, service orientation and hybrid cloud.
• A good understanding of how isolated technical capabilities can turn into reusable patterns.
• Ability to lead highly technical discovery work with engineers, solution architects and other stakeholders.
• A methodical approach to handling complex problems in a large organisation.
• Expert-level skills in business analysis.
• A mature understanding of the principles of solution architecture, cloud architecture, data architecture and software engineering.
• Ability to learn rapidly and develop expertise in new domain areas.
• Ability to communicate in both the business jargon and the technology jargon, and translate effectively between the two.
• Ability to perform risk assessment and capability gap analysis.

• You feel at home communicating with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• You are recognised by colleagues as creative, collaborative and thought-provoking.
• You can investigate business problems and identify the root cause behind them, considering both business-side and technology-side factors.
• You are a strategic thinker, and have ideas about how to turn bits of technology into reusable products.
• You have worked on the architecture of customer-facing systems, including their front end, application back end and data layer.
• You like problem-solving, simplifying and reorganising.
• You have contributed to architecture plans and technology road maps with multiple phases.
• You have presented options assessments that convinced your colleagues they should support your recommended way forward.

• 25 days annual leave
• 3 volunteering days per year
• 10% on target bonus
• Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products
• Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile
• Access to our brand new, innovative office spaces, including our new office in London and Birmingham which opened last year, our Bristol office due to open later this year, and Manchester to follow next! Check them out: Our new office environments
• Hybrid working – 3 days a week in the office, 2 days from anywhere.
• Access and involvement with our incredible 11 People Networks including Able2 network, Carers network, Ethnic diversity network, Gender equality network and Pride network
• Access to our bespoke Digital Campus learning platform for tailored learning and skill development