Enterprise Architect

Job Title
: Enterprise Architect - Education

Salary:
£70,400 - £94,100

Location:
Cambridge/Hybrid of 2 days a week in the office

Contract:
Permanent Full Time

We're looking for a talented Enterprise Architect to join our dynamic team of enterprise, business, and solution architects supporting the Education product group. You'll play a key role in shaping our future event-driven architectures using domain-driven design principles, translating business strategy into practical outcomes delivered through significant transformation programmes including Future Operating Model, Digital Assessment, Exam Processing Transformation, and Onboarding and Access.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About The Role
As part of this role, you'll help define and evolve our architecture approach across the Education product groups and technology teams to deliver more joined up experience for our customers while providing greater flexibility in our backend services and platforms. This is a great opportunity to influence architectural direction and drive meaningful change at scale.

Education
You will be joining a team of passionate enterprise, business and solution and architects with a common goal to support our UK and International Education product group strategies. The role includes:

• Engaging with senior leaders across Education to understand their needs.
• Leading architecture approach on significant programmes of work.
• Collaborating with business architects to define change through the lens of domains and capabilities.
• Designing reference architectures and supporting solution architects and product teams building platforms and services.
• Contributing to shape and further develop our Enterprise Architecture practices.

About You
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who enjoys challenging the status quo and looking for innovative ways to solve complicated problems.

You need robust knowledge of the Education business domain and the evolving edtech market.

You will have strong communication and leadership skills to build trust with senior stakeholders across the Education product group and allow you to influence decision makers to endorse your ideas.

You will have experience of working in large scale transformation programmes with many competing objectives and complicated stakeholder motivations.

You will need a robust understanding of technical operating model design, business capabilities, event driven architecture design, data products, microservices and exposure to modern development techniques.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 3 November. Interviews are scheduled to take place shortly after.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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