Enterprise Application Architect

About the Role

The Enterprise Application Architect role sits within the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function in IT Services. The role reports to the Head of Enterprise Architecture and works alongside technology, security and data architects. You will provide leadership, guidance and mentoring to team members within and outside the EA function.

You will lead the design and governance of application architectures and play a key role in shaping and delivering the Queen Mary's Application Strategy, ensuring alignment with the TOGAF Standard. This includes rationalising applications, retiring legacy systems and producing TOGAF-aligned deliverables such as architecture designs, principles, roadmaps and gap analyses. You will also support the design of the Automation and AI Strategy, ensuring that initiatives are underpinned by robust application architecture and integrated with business, data and technology domains to support the university’s digital transformation objectives.

About You

You should have a proven track record as a hands-on Architect, with experience in application architecture including AI and automation. You will need to possess experience across various IT disciplines, from architecture to operations. A qualification in architecture frameworks, including TOGAF, is required.

About the Department

The IT Services function operates within the Professional Services Department, part of the professional services group that enables and facilitates the success of our students and faculty. Together with other professional service areas, the Enterprise Architecture team aims to deliver value for money through technology, ensuring efficiency, economy, effectiveness, and equity.

Our aim is to become the most inclusive University of its kind, anywhere. In line with this mission, IT Services have set up a Women in Technology network to encourage collaboration with cross-functional teams to support the professional development, mentorship, and leadership opportunities for women in the Directorate. Recognising the underrepresentation of women in IT Services, the Network aims to promote the growth and advancement of women in our technology workforce

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.