Location
Bristol or Edinburgh
Department
Technology
Closing Date
27 Sep 2024

About The Role

Working closely with heads of function, programme managers, technical disciplines, and programme sponsors you will have responsibility for developing and maintaining the areas of the enterprise architecture within MO.
 
Support Formulation of Strategy and Guide Execution:
  • Translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve MO’s targeted business outcomes using a collaborative, supportive and consultative approach.
  • Understand MO’s economic and financial levers to effectively guide investment decisions.
  • Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprise’s business strategy, direction, and architecture.
Build and Maintain Relationships:
  • Provide consultative advice, and actionable recommendations adapted to stakeholder context to guide investment decisions
  • Lead and facilitate interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of decisions to the line of business, business unit and wider enterprise.
  • Builds the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
  • Develops a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
  • Leads a collaborative community of architects and work with the Enterprise Design Authority to guide transformation and resolve any conflicts
Orchestrates the Delivery of Business Outcomes
  • Position the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensure that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
  • Work with other architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
  • Develop diagnostic and action-oriented deliverables that help guide investment decisions in support of executing business strategy. 
  • Lead analysis of the business’ future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
  • Works with the Technology SLT to drive business-outcomes. This may include fusion teams and supporting federated initiatives. 
  • Ensure that the EA design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
Plan and Manage the Application Portfolio
  • Maintain the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects, products and domains as they evolve over time.
  • Own the EA governance model and ensure it offers appropriate minimal viable architectures across the different delivery domains.
  • Collaborates with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
Lead, Mentor and Develop Other Architects
  • Lead, mentor, and inspire the Architecture team, ensuring team members have the necessary resources and support to excel in their roles. 
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability and collaboration within the team and across departments. 
  • Define ways of working and standards for Architecture in Technology. 
  • Work with key partners in the business to define ways of working and build up consistent approaches where appropriate.
  • Build new capabilities where there are gaps in the existing organisation. 
  • Ensure that the team continue to develop appropriate technical and soft skills to effectively support the business as it changes

About You

The Principal Enterprise Architect will define Business Systems strategies, to contribute to the annual strategy round and MO long term strategy, and define and evolve the IT Roadmap to align to strategic business objectives.
 
Minimum Criteria
 
As a minimum for this role, you will need to have experience in the full project development life cycle; a proven track record, with demonstrable experience in a role of similar responsibility and scale; strong analytical and problem-solving abilities; and a solid technology background.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 700,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

  • We find solutions
  • We drive change
  • We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.  It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

  • Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
  • 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
  • 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
  • Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
  • 1 day for volunteering
  • Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
  • Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
  • Funded health screening for over 50s
  • Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
  • Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
  • Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
  • Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.  We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.


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