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About the role
The Enterprise Architect will operate at a strategic level, working closely with both business and technology stakeholders to ensure HL's medium- to long-term business strategy is enabled by a coherent and forward-looking technology strategy. This role is central to shaping the enterprise architecture landscape across business, application, data, technology and integration domains, supporting HL's multi-year digital transformation.You will collaborate with the Head of Technical Architecture and Head of Solution Architecture to ensure architectural alignment across domains and drive strategic improvements that deliver client value, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.
This role is suited to a senior architecture professional with deep expertise in one or more enterprise domains and a strong understanding of agile delivery environments.
Strategy & Governance
- Develop and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps aligned to HL's strategic objectives.
- Apply EA best practices in agile environments, including frameworks such as CSVLOD.
- Ensure architectural alignment across business capabilities, technology platforms, and transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to architecture governance forums and strategic planning cycles.
Domain Expertise
- Provide depth in one or more of the following domains:
- Business Architecture: Capability modelling, value stream mapping, and strategic alignment.
- Application Architecture: Portfolio rationalisation, application lifecycle management, and modular design.
- Data Architecture: Data strategy, governance, lineage, and migration planning.
- Integration Architecture: API strategy, middleware, event-driven design, and interoperability.
Collaboration & Influence
- Work with senior business stakeholders to understand strategic goals and translate them into architectural outcomes.
- Partner with technology leaders to ensure architecture supports agile delivery, scalability, and resilience.
- Influence investment decisions and prioritisation through architectural insight.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities for innovation and simplification across the enterprise landscape.
- Promote architectural thinking and capability across HL through mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Support the evolution of architecture tooling, modelling, and documentation practices.
Why us?
Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
- Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Health screening programme
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
Skills Required
- Senior architecture experience in enterprise environments
- Deep expertise in one or more domains: Business, Application, Data, or Integration Architecture
- Experience developing and maintaining enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps
- Experience applying EA best practices and frameworks such as CSVLOD
- Experience with API strategy, middleware, and event-driven integration patterns
- Data architecture skills including data strategy, governance, lineage, and migration planning
- Proven experience working with agile delivery teams and environments
- Proven stakeholder management and ability to influence senior business and technology leaders
- Experience contributing to architecture governance forums and strategic planning cycles
What We Do
We’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol, where we now employ over 1,700 people. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. Today we're trusted by over 1.7 million clients. Our service allows clients to bring all their ISAs, pensions, SIPPS, and savings into one easy to manage place, allowing them to be in control.
