The company is at the forefront of innovation, creating technology for a range of successful markets. Flexible hybrid working - 5 days per month on site as an average The company are an Innovation and Technology leader, solving complex challenges across every domain! The organisation provides advanced systems and services to their customers Globally and have a fantastic reputation in its market. The Technical Architect is accountable for proactively and holistically leading or supporting enterprise activities that create deliverables that guide the direction and development for technological responses to deliver business outcomes. Technologies may include data centre, infrastructure, cloud, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Working in conjunction with the wider technology teams and Solution Architects the role provides the technical leadership, facilitation, analysis, and design tasks required for the development of an enterprise's technical architecture. You will also create deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts and configurations) for evolving the corporate application and technical infrastructure to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes. Analyse business strategy and trends to derive the technology architecture future state. Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate. Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes. Lead the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. Coach, mentor and collaborate with technical subject matter experts and peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models. Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance. Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations. Help the Director Information Technology define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value. Understand, advocate, and augment the business and IT strategies - and, more specifically, EA development and service delivery. Be prepared to "sell" the EA process (overall, not just for enterprise technology architecture), its outcome and ongoing results, and to lead the communication or marketing activities needed to ensure enterprise success and use. Collaborate with business constituents, project teams and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfil the responsibilities described above. Ability to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations and how they relate to achieving targeted business outcomes Ability to estimate the financial impact of technology alternatives Excellent planning and organizational skills Knowledge of many, if not most, aspects of an enterprise technology architecture Knowledge of financial models and budgeting Understanding of network and security architecture Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronise and stabilise, and DevOps) Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Knowledge and understanding of different modelling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate) Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments (such as inside-out, outside-in and outside-out)