Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA)

Amey is a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations, and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.  

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight, and collaboration.   

The Opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity for a permanent Chief Enterprise Architect (CEA) to join Amey’s group functions.

As the CEA you will help guide the enterprise, proactively and holistically, through transformation and optimisation initiatives, supporting the formulation and realisation of digital and technology strategy and driving innovation opportunities.

Your scope of activities will include enabling the organisation to achieve targeted business outcomes that support enterprise and C-suite priorities for growing revenue, optimising costs and mitigating risks.

The CEA will focus on building relationships with business and IT stakeholders, communicating the value of enterprise architecture (EA) and the services it offers, ensuring ongoing satisfaction with EA services and performance, and shaping and guiding the delivery of EA’s services.

Key responsibilities:

• Leads the development of a value proposition and execution of a communication and education plan for the EA practice
• Ensures the core EA team works closely with extended EA team members across the organisation. Plans and manages a talent pool (resource bench) of domain architects that works with EA and non-EA related disciplines to deliver the goals, objectives, and outcomes of the organisation
• Identifies organisational requirements for the EA resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support agility and adaptability.
• Leads the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Facilitates business and IT alignment through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organisation’s digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Assesses disruptive forces impacting the organisation and identifies technology-enabled innovation opportunities that enable business strategy.
• Details potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside the organisation’s traditional realm of competition.
• Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile way.
• Acts as a trusted advisor by providing consultative advice to business leaders and organisational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model for the organisation, using technology to make that change happen.
• Positions the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensures the EA practice is designed and enabled to help formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
• Guides a collaborative, cross-functional approach to mapping the current and future state of business capabilities, value streams and IT environment. Assembles the stakeholder expertise needed to collectively surface performance improvement opportunities and capability needs between and across processes and business units and recommends solutions to achieve targeted business outcomes.
• Identifies organisational requirements for the resources, structures and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Leads analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Develops and applies standards and minimal viable architectures through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.

What you will bring to us:

• Deree in either Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Analysis or related field of study.
• Enterprise Architecture qualifications such as TOGAF and SABSA
• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit and trade-off analysis, budgeting, and risk management.
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Understanding of the different types of agile principles, methodologies and frameworks, especially those designed to be scaled at enterprise level.
• Understanding of existing, new and emerging technologies, such as generative AI and its applications.
• Knowledge of all components of EA, business and IT principles, and processes.
• Familiarity with EA tools, graphical modelling approaches and repository management.
• Excellent analytical, planning and organisational skills.

What we can offer you:

At Amey, we recognise that our biggest asset is our people. That is why when you join us, we offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s difficulties. It is the reason Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers.

Work-life Balance –

Work-life balance and flexibility are key for our success. We empower our people to make choices that are right for them, with hybrid, part-time and flexible work patterns. And with a network of offices across the UK, we are open to discussing working options that suit you.

Wellbeing –

Health cash plan, 24 GP, support and assistance programmes, wellbeing ambassadors and Wellbeing Wednesday, dental vouchers

EDI-

At Amey we celebrate our people and all that they are. This is reflected in our Affinity Group networks, providing a community of support and connection, a safe space to share experiences, learn from one another and generate ideas – Women @ Amey, Neurodiversity, Armed Forces, Multicultural Network, Pride, Diversability and Parents & Carers.

Social Value –

You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives.

Plus, a range of other great perks and benefits including:

• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to (8% Amey contribution based on a 4% employee contribution)
• Holidays - Minimum 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Bonus – up to 20% of base salary
• Car / Car allowance
• Life assurance –
• Healthcare – private family
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership.
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in.

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.