Principal Enterprise Architect

Full-time
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Directorate: IAG Tech

**Company Description**:

- We are part of International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s leading airline groups and owner of some of the biggest brands in the sky.
- With a diverse workforce spread across four countries, IAG GBS provides creative and innovative solutions to drive sustainable transformation by delivering finance, procurement and airline services, as well as group-wide systems across IAG. Each operating company benefits from the GBS centralised model, driving efficiencies, automation and economies of scale.
- IAG Tech’s vision is to increase shareholder value, accelerate business performance, delight customers, enable employees, and protect our business through the innovative and agile use of technology and data.**Purpose of the role**
- Drive the enterprise/solution/data architecture thought leadership, effectively influencing stakeholders to help define the future state.
- Identify opportunities to work across IAG Tech to underpin the successful delivery of major architectural initiatives.
- Management of supplier relationships, ensuring any third-party deliverables meet strategic, technical and cost requirements.
- Identification and execution of continual improvement opportunities, ensuring the best outcomes for IAG and its operating companies, driving optimal solutions through the implementation of the architecture roadmap.
- Develop and maintain relationships within the Group and externally to identify and promote best practice and industry trends, translating these into strategy, policies, standards and best practice.

**Accountabilities**

Working in partnership with IAG Tech and the business to:
- Ensure all architecture activity in their area is aligned in terms of business vision and goals.
- Provide expertise to programme and project managers with the design, planning & governance of projects and business initiatives in relation to architecture.
- Collaborate with Architects in other areas as required and ensures any solution within their specific specialism fits with the business and technical architecture and strategic direction.
- Recognise opportunities for business or IT change, communicates them persuasively to appropriate stakeholders.
- Lead the production and ensure the quality, timely delivery and appropriateness of architecture artefacts.
- Develop and document the current and future state architecture Continuously monitor the documentation and update them as necessary to show changes, additions, and alterations. Make them actionable by balancing architecture recommendations with the optimum solution for IAG, creating transition roadmaps and influencing the portfolio to realise them by managing the overall design that underlies a projected solution, providing end to end solution and design details.
- Choose appropriate architectural viewpoints to develop based on practicality and fit for purpose.
- Support the business in understanding and interpreting the architecture and ensuring awareness and use of existing architecture artefacts. Ensure design is consistent with the architecture and drives resolution of architecture issues throughout the project lifecycle.
- Liaise closely with service partners and suppliers where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions.
- Lead consultancy assignments involving specialists from various disciplines, and take responsibility for the quality, timely delivery and appropriateness of the team’s recommendations. Assignments may be across a wide range of topics, including some outside own area of expertise.
- Follow the agreed methods and use the appropriate tools for architecture and promote and support these.

Technology Office - Principal Architect- Deliver across a number of business or technical domains, the breadth and complexity of which will vary depending on experience.

This role may require travel and working from multiple sites/locations. Willing and able to travel to participate in meetings, workshops, and other related activities**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.

**Desired qualification**
- Recognised architecture qualification desirable
- Working towards TOGAF level 1 certification

**Skills**
- Demonstrates clear leadership and an ability to influence and persuade across the organisation at senior levels, leading by example and aligning stakeholder groups around a common vision.
- Collaborative, open working, resulting in recognition as a valued partner by colleagues, customers and senior stakeholders across the organisation.
- Problem solving & and understanding of the broader business context (business acumen)
- Innovation - transforming industry trends into practical, cost effective, secure, scalable and supportable solutions
- Fluent written and spoken in Spanish and English.
- Finance & HR - knowledge of the human resources and/or finance business.
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