Enterprise Digital Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Digital Architect

Salary: £70,400 - £94,100

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent

This is an opportunity to join us as an Enterprise Digital Architect. This position is pivotal in transforming our enterprise digital landscape and driving innovation.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

The Enterprise Digital Architect will provide architectural design leadership and lead implementation strategies for customer facing shared capabilities, primarily through digital channels. The role involves designing robust, scalable digital architectures that align with the organization's strategic goals, focusing on customer-facing technology solutions. As the enterprise level design lead, the position plays a key role in transforming the enterprise digital landscape, driving innovation, and helping the organization meet its digital aspirations. This role initially acts as Lead Architect for a multi-year digital commerce programme.

• Develop and maintain the target enterprise digital architecture aligning with business goals.
• Lead the design of complex digital architectures, including cloud solutions, data platforms, and integration frameworks.
• Create and manage a technology roadmap guiding the evolution of digital capabilities and systems.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and guidelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated digital solutions.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to drive continuous innovation.
• Identify and mitigate architectural risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory and security requirements.
• Engage with key stakeholders to gather requirements and provide architectural guidance.

About you

• Experience in leading the architecture, design and implementation of digital architectures in a complex enterprise environment.
• Understanding of data governance, data architecture, and analytics.
• Familiarity with enterprise integration patterns, API management, and microservices.
• K nowledge of security architecture and practices.
• Proficiency in enterprise and solution architecture modelling tools and techniques (e.g. Orbus Infinity, Icepanel).
• Proficiency in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and associated services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master's degree or relevant certifications preferred

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 21st November although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place during and shortly after the campaign closes.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Ca mbridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for."

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identityand sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.