Enterprise Architect Lead
Overview
Dis-Chem Pharmacies has an opportunity available for an Enterprise Architecture Lead, reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, who will be accountable for leading the Enterprise Architecture capability and ensuring consistent, high-quality enterprise-level architecture outcomes across Dis-Chem. The role translates enterprise strategy, target-state direction, and architecture principles into actionable guidance, reference architectures, and roadmaps across application, data, integration, and infrastructure domains.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 8–10+ years’ experience in enterprise or senior solution architecture roles
- Proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale architectures
- Experience operating within formal architecture governance (e.g. ARB, design authority models)
Responsibilities
- Lead the Enterprise Architecture capability, including standards, methods, and quality of enterprise-level designs
- Translate business strategy and CIO direction into target-state architectures and transition roadmaps
- Drive simplification, reuse, and standardisation across platforms and vendors
- Ensure non-functional requirements (security, resilience, scalability, operability) are embedded at enterprise level
- Act as a senior authority within the Architecture Review Board (ARB)
- Review and assure solution designs for alignment to enterprise standards and target state
- Identify architectural risks, cross-platform dependencies, and trade-offs early
- Recommend pragmatic decisions and transition paths to balance delivery speed, risk, and sustainability
- Engage early in initiative shaping, option analysis, and vendor selection
- Provide clear patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures to accelerate delivery
- Partner with Solution Architecture Lead to ensure clean handover from enterprise intent to solution design
- Prevent late-stage rework by resolving architectural questions before scope and funding are locked
- Support delivery teams without causing bottlenecks and partner with Platform and Squad Leads to resolve design ambiguities early
- Influence architectural outcomes through credibility, clarity, and structured reasoning
- Communicate complex architectural topics clearly to senior business and IT stakeholders
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