About the Role
Wellcome Trust is seeking a Head of Enterprise Architect to lead and shape the organisation’s technology landscape, providing strategic guidance to the CIO, building an enterprise architecture capability, and driving simplification, governance, and innovation across all systems and data.
Responsibilities
- Lead and shape the organisation’s technology landscape.
- Provide strategic guidance to the CIO.
- Build an enterprise architecture capability.
- Drive simplification, governance, and innovation across all systems and data.
- Define how technology works across the entire organisation, ensuring it is simplified, future-ready, well-governed, and aligned to Wellcome’s mission.
- Build the architecture capability from the ground up.
- Advise at executive level.
- Assess, assure, and improve the control environment across technology systems.
- Lead teams.
- Manage budgets.
- Build high-performing, inclusive functions.
Requirements
- Enterprise-level architecture experience.
- Led strategic technology initiatives.
- Worked in cross-functional teams.
- Influenced senior leadership or Board-level stakeholders.
- Comfortable building a capability from scratch.
- Comfortable shaping processes and governance.
- Proven experience implementing enterprise architecture strategies.
- Proven experience building architecture capabilities.
- Familiarity with TOGAF or equivalent architecture standards.
- Strong technical understanding across multiple domains: applications, data, integration, emerging technologies (AI/ML).
Skills
- Enterprise Architecture
- Strategic Technology Initiatives
- Cross-functional Teamwork
- Stakeholder Influence
- Capability Building
- Process Shaping
- Governance Shaping
- TOGAF
- Architecture Standards
- Systems Control
- Team Leadership
- Budget Management
- Application Domain Knowledge
- Data Domain Knowledge
- Integration Domain Knowledge
- Emerging Technologies (AI/ML)
Location
- Euston Road offices
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- £140,000
Benefits
- Flexible working environment
About the Company
- The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation.
- We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
- We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
- These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do.
- Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome.
- We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive.
- We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
- We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone.
- This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.
