ary: Competitive per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid working / 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 15th May 2025
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you’re ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.
The Principal Enterprise Architect will lead a team of Business Architects, providing strategic direction and architectural oversight across a key business domain. This role partners with senior stakeholders to shape and articulate business and technology strategies that align with Virgin Atlantic’s broader goals. They will ensure the development and governance of current and future state architectures spanning business, application, and data domains. The role is pivotal in aligning architectural roadmaps with strategic priorities, driving innovation and transformation initiatives. Additionally, the Principal Architect will actively contribute to the evolution of Virgin Atlantic’s enterprise-wide technical strategy.
- Develop close senior business relationships, understand, and influence business strategies
- Day to day management of the team to deliver the enterprise architecture to support the business strategy
- Line management and pastoral care of the team, including performance management and career development
- Develop close business relationships, understand, and influence digital business strategies
- Develop Current and Future State Business, Data and Application Architectures
- Develop and maintain pragmatic and actionable roadmaps
- Support the formation of Technology Investment Portfolios
- Contribute to Technical Architectures to ensure alignment to Business Strategy
- Contribute to the development of Technical Strategies and Reference Architectures
- Manage Total Risk and Cost across the IT Estate
- Promote Guardrail Adherence
- Review Solutions Designs
- Govern Target and Reference Architectures
- Strong background in architecture roles (e.g., Solution, Business, or Enterprise).
- Experience across business, application, and data architecture.
- Solid understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF).
- Proven leadership of small architecture teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
- Industry experience in complex or regulated environments; airline experience a plus.
- Strategic mindset with hands-on delivery capability.
- Experience of enterprise architecture tools like LeanIX would be advantageous
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Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.