Key Responsibilities

• Define, maintain and evolve the service and technical architecture, including current-state and target-state views.
• Gather and align architectural information from ESA, service providers and technical stakeholders.
• Identify architectural gaps, dependencies, obsolescence and transformation opportunities.
• Translate business requirements and strategic objectives into technical options, transformation initiatives and priorities.
• Assess alternative technologies, solutions and sourcing approaches, supporting make/buy and technical decisions.
• Develop and maintain transformation frameworks and multi-year roadmaps, translating strategic priorities into actionable plans.
• Monitor transformation progress, assessing risks, impacts, dependencies and deviations and recommending corrective actions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and Proofs of Concept (PoCs), coordinating specialist expertise where required and assessing feasibility, maturity, cost and readiness for adoption.
• Produce clear architecture, roadmap and technical decision-support materials and present recommendations to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Coordinate architecture reviews, approvals and baseline updates, ensuring technical decisions and documentation remain aligned.
• Manage technical dependencies across work packages, Corporate IT, suppliers and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to risk, knowledge, service continuity, performance and continual improvement activities.
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Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of IT experience, with significant experience in Senior Architecture and Transformation roles.
• Strong background in Enterprise, Service or Solution Architecture, ideally within complex infrastructure and service environments.
• Proven experience developing current/target-state architectures, gap assessments and multi-year transformation roadmaps.
• Strong ability to turn strategic objectives and requirements into practical initiatives, priorities and delivery plans.
• Experience evaluating technical solutions, sourcing models, costs, risks, dependencies and feasibility to support decision-making.
• Broad knowledge of modern IT technologies, including cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, platforms and integration.
• Experience evaluating new technologies and managing Proofs of Concept.
• Strong requirements analysis skills, with the ability to connect requirements, architecture, transformation decisions and roadmaps.
• Experience working across multi-supplier and multi-provider environments and coordinating technical dependencies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including workshops, architecture reviews, governance forums and senior-level presentations.
• Good understanding of IT Service Management / ITIL, including Risk, Change, Knowledge, Capacity/Performance, Service Continuity and Service Level Management.
• Strong technical writing skills and the ability to produce clear, concise architecture and decision-support documentation.
• Comfortable acting as a senior technical adviser, challenging assumptions and providing evidence-based recommendations.
• Able to pass ITAR Export Control screening due to operational requirements.
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