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Enterprise Architect - Global Supply Chain (£200K+ Package) Remote working with occasiaional travel to Bristol or London
As the Enterprise Architect for Global Supply Chain, you will define and continuously evolve the strategic architecture vision supporting end-to-end supply chain operations on a global scale. This role ensures alignment across technology, information, processes, and applications to meet business goals across planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and trade compliance. You will collaborate with senior business and IT stakeholders to steer major transformation initiatives, harmonize platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Blue Yonder, Salesforce), and embed a data-driven, resilient, and connected supply chain ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a strategic interface between business and IT, promoting alignment across decentralized technology landscapes.
- Engage stakeholders across functions to shape transformation roadmaps.
- Anticipate business and operating model changes and adjust architecture strategies accordingly.
- Monitor industry trends and disruptions, evaluating their impact on long-term strategic outcomes.
- Translate architectural visions into compelling narratives that drive executive alignment.
- Support both project-centric and product-centric operating models.
- Champion the value of enterprise architecture and continuously evolve its service offering.
- Mentor architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to develop architectural thinking.
Accountabilities:
- Define and maintain a global target architecture and roadmap for supply chain capabilities.
- Provide architectural governance for large-scale programs (e.g., supply chain transformation, digital twin, intelligent planning).
- Oversee solution architecture for core platforms such as SAP S/4HANA, Blue Yonder, Ariba, and integration technologies like Azure and Informatica.
- Identify architectural debt and capability gaps; propose and prioritize remediation initiatives.
- Collaborate with product and domain teams to ensure architectural coherence across regions and platforms.
- Support technology evaluations and vendor selection processes aligned with enterprise standards.
- Promote reuse, simplification, and interoperability across the enterprise technology landscape.
- Ensure scalability, security, and regulatory compliance of supply chain solutions.
Critical Decisions:
- Balancing global standardization with local flexibility within the supply chain ecosystem.
- Selecting integration and platform strategies for streamlined process orchestration and data flow.
- Prioritizing foundational architectural enablers versus near-term business functionality.
- Planning legacy system decommissioning aligned with business risk and technical readiness.
- Recommending build vs. buy strategies for emerging technologies (e.g., AI for demand sensing, IoT in production).
Experience
Essential:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related discipline
- Extensive experience in enterprise or domain architecture, particularly in global supply chain transformation programs
- Strong understanding of core supply chain functions and digital platforms (SAP S/4HANA, Blue Yonder, Ariba, Salesforce)
- Proven capability in enterprise integration, data architecture, and governance frameworks
- Skilled at influencing senior stakeholders and translating strategic goals into technical outcomes
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to present complex concepts in a simple and visual manner
- Strong collaboration, problem-solving, and mentoring skills
- Experience with architecture governance processes and tools (e.g., LeanIX, Sparx, Orbus)
Desirable:
- Master's degree or postgraduate certification (e.g., MBA, TOGAF, BCS)
- Knowledge of digital technologies like AI/ML, IoT, and blockchain within supply chains
- Experience in regulated industries such as FMCG, pharma, or tobacco
- Exposure to agile and product-centric delivery models
- Strong knowledge of cloud and hybrid environments (Azure preferred)
- Deep understanding of multiple architecture domains (e.g., business, application, data, integration, infrastructure)
- Familiarity with formal architectural methods and modeling notations
- Demonstrated ability to lead architecture in large-scale transformation programs
- Excellent negotiation, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management skills
