Principal Enterprise Architect

Are you looking for your next challenge and want to be part of a team that is hard working and driven to make a difference to our business! 

What will you do? Principal Enterprise Architect

As the Principal Enterprise Architect you will be the lead technical architect for our group, providing architectural guidance to all technical domains, including hosting, networking, integration, security and end user computing.

Some accountabilities of the role: 

You will play an integral role in growing the team of architects while demonstrating your leadership values through delegation, motivation and trust. You will not just lead, but you will "do". Our culture is exploring, thinking and doing, and you will live this every single day. 

• Enterprise Architecture - Identify new and evolving technologies, include them in the systems architecture where they can result in commercial advantage for the Group Technology function. You understand and promote enterprise conventions, standards, policies, API frameworks, and microservices.

• Product Owner -  For the Enterprise Architecture tool Lean IX, acting as an evangelist for its use by both technical and business stakeholders

• Mentor - Through the adoption of a learning mindset and contributing back to practice and technology teams. Whether you lead team members directly or influence more junior analysts through mentorship, coaching and architecture reviews, you will nurture the next generation of talent at TP.

• Practice developer - Contributing to the evolution of the architecture design process, ensuring it is effective and efficient through maintaining the artefacts,  conventions and knowledge sharing

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!