Head of Infrastructure Architecture

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: London

In this position, you'll be based in the London office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.

We give you a world of potential

Computershare has a unique opportunity for a Head of Infrastructure Architecture to join our team at a truly exciting time.

We are looking for a highly experienced individual to take on this role to directly oversee the architecture of the CTO estate. This pivotal role manages the design and architecture demand placed on the teams and ensures that roadmaps, design artefacts and standards are delivered to time and to quality expectations.

A role you will love

As our Head of Infrastructure Architecture, you will be a key member of the CTO Leadership team, ensuring the architecture capabilities are in place (principles, patterns, methodology, standards and current state) and aligned to wider technology global standards.

In this role you will work closely with key stakeholders from across the business, within the CTO group and broader technology Services team to deliver business value from our IT systems, whilst ensuring our systems and data are resilient & secure.

Other key responsibilities:

• Lead an architecture team and wider CTO design community to deliver objectives and commitments.
• Collaborate with our business owners, product teams and technology function stakeholders to derive the technology future state and roadmaps.
• Own the architectural governance process embedding and executing an architectural review process with clear guidelines, inputs and outputs with the goal of improving design quality.
• Deliver a step change in architecture and design capabilities of CTO teams, ensuring best practices are defined and implemented.
• Represent and participate in global governance and architecture communities on behalf of the CTO group.

• Demonstrable experience in the implementation of Enterprise Architecture Artefacts, architecture process and governance.
• Expert experience in designing and implantation of a diverse range of technology solutions and services (data communications, web-based technologies, service-based technologies, performance, scalability, maintainability, deployment, operations, technology infrastructure, security).
• Proven experience to be creative and flexible in identifying technical solutions to resolve business needs in a rapidly changing, demanding and complex business environment.
• Track record of building a strong team culture with a genuine interest and ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic team environment.
• Exceptional problem solving and communication skills.