Business Architect

Virgin holidays; Crawley; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading travel company is seeking a Business Domain Architect to work closely with business stakeholders, develop current and future state architectures, and manage roadmaps to achieve target states. The ideal candidate will have proven architectural experience, strong stakeholder management skills, and a broad understanding of business, application, and data architecture principles. This role contributes significantly to the company's technical strategy and drives innovation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in architectural roles, such as Solution, Business, or Enterprise Architecture.
• Broad understanding of business, application, and data architecture principles.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and their practical application.

Responsibilities

• 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 with business strategy.
• Review solutions designs and govern target and reference architectures.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Business architecture principles

Application architecture principles

Data architecture principles

Job description

The Business Domain Architect role is aligned to a specific business domain or value stream within Virgin Atlantic. They work closely with business stakeholders to understand the vision and goals for their domain, develop current and future state architectures—covering business, application, and data—and manage a roadmap to reach the target state. This role also contributes to Virgin Atlantic’s overall technical strategy and supports the drive for innovation.

Day to day

• 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
• Digital Opportunity Identification
• Track and assess new technologies
• Enable Proof of Concepts

About you

• Proven experience in architectural roles (e.g., Solution, Business, or Enterprise Architecture)
• Broad understanding of business, application, and data architecture principles
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and how to apply them in practice