Enterprise Strategy Architect

Enterprise Strategy Architect

Derby, Bristol or London

Full Time Permanent

The Enterprise Strategy Architect is responsible for translating complex organisational, technological, and strategic challenges into clear, actionable direction that supports the delivery of digital and IT strategy across Rolls-Royce. Working closely with the Vice President for Digital & IT Strategy, this role acts as a key enabler of alignment across delivery teams and capability workstreams, ensuring that priorities, dependencies, and impacts are well understood. The position also involves supporting decision-making by providing structured insight, challenging assumptions, and helping teams understand implications beyond their immediate scope.

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

What you will be doing:

The role requires regular collaboration with Digital & IT teams, business leaders, and senior stakeholders, including executive leadership, to support organisational change and communicate strategic direction. It suits someone who is comfortable operating across technical, business, and operational contexts, and who can engage effectively with a wide range of audiences. Strong candidates will demonstrate curiosity, clarity of thought, and the ability to simplify complexity, alongside confidence in influencing others, presenting ideas, and guiding teams toward more effective solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Owning the integrity of delivering our Digital & IT strategy, including maintaining alignment with changing enterprise priorities
• Providing strategic direction and proactive dependency management between the Digital & IT delivery teams
• Connection between financial approvals and outcomes so we understand size, scale, and scope of initiatives to realise benefits
• Ensuring we can trace the evolution of our strategy over time and when we make changes we can articulate why and the decision making
• Engagement of all the teams via orchestration, articulation of needs and following up to ensure we deliver on our commitments
• Acting as the deputy to the VP for Digital & IT Strategy

Who were looking for:

Position qualifications:

• Cleared, or able to obtain, clearance to UK SC or above
• Be a “5 eyes” national (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA)
• Degree qualified in Engineering, IT, Computing, or a related subject

Preferred requirements: Skills and experience

We are looking for someone that is an expert in:

• Storytelling and articulation of problems in language non-experts can understand
• Translation of business expressions of solutions into outcomes/capabilities they need to achieve
• Understanding when a process problem is being expressed as a technology issue
• Knowing when to be strategic and when a minor course alteration is appropriate
• Problem solving and probing for root cause
• Presentation material preparation and delivery
• Interpersonal skills and relationship building
• Articulation of a vision
• Have a flair for Digital & IT Technology in a Business Context, or vice-versa but both skillsets are key
• Efficiency & Simplification of processes

Experience of

• Enterprise Architecture
• Strategic Portfolio Management and Dependency management (ideally BizzDesign Alfabet but other tools like LeanIX are fine)
• Working in a highly regulated environment
• Risk Management

Knowledge of

• Process Design and Modelling
• Working with major Enterprise Systems (PLM, ERP, MES, CRM, HCM etc)
• Core IT base knowledge (Operating Systems, Databases, Cloud Technology, Security Principles)
• Working in an Engineering Environment

Regional Benefits

Our People are our power, so when join Rolls-Royce you are offered more than a salary. You are given a choice of flexible benefits from life insurance to gym discounts and tax free cycling.

• Generous Annual Leave
• Retirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust
• Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce
• Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury
• Your Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls-Royce shares and invest in our future, together. Buy one share, get one free!
• Digital GP provides a convenient way for you to access GP consultations
• Employee Assistance (EAP) and Live Well programmes

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Level C

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade. 

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.   

Closing date: 2nd August 2026