Senior Enterprise Architect

NPL has anever-expanding portfolio of technology across the organisation. From business systems, to scientific IT solutions,to software engineering platforms, all the way to IoT systems in remote isolated environments.

You’ll be joining NPL’sCIO function under the Enterprise Architecture team, steering business stakeholders toward making the most informed decisions around technology.

Key responsibilities include:

• Engaging with business, scientific, and IT stakeholders to discover their processes, information systems, and the constraints they work with.


• Maintain diagrams and databases for enterprise architecture artifacts.


• Provide oversight to technology integration projects to ensure architectural direction is followed, business constraints are not introduced, and technical debt is limited.


• Working with the solution architecture team to ensure they are best equipped with the knowledge and details they need to develop designs.


• Performing initial project engagements with business stakeholders to ensure that cataloged technology solutions can be re-used and that we don’t re-invent the wheel.


• Managing the complexity of NPL’s IT estate by recommending the most appropriate classes of solution (re-use vs. new instance vs. new tech)

Key projects you’ll be working on initially:

• ERP2 -our next stages of integrating HRIS, e-Commerce, CRM, and other business systems with our new Dynamics 365 ERP system.


• Digital and Data Strategy – shaping the future and laying the foundations for NPL’s journey to digitising a legacy lab estate and better enabling science and use of cloud services.