Enterprise Solutions Architect – Fixed-Term Contract (12 Months)

Based in Oxford, you will be the Enterprise Solutions Architect working in an architectural capacity on projects and ongoing maintenance of our enterprise systems landscape (including Microsoft Dynamics F&O, Salesforce, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, SAP Success Factors). You will be part of the architecture function and liaise with internal teams and third parties to ensure systems integrate effectively, and input to processes and practices to ensure they are scalable, secure and robust. We are undertaking several strategic business programmes currently to refine/change our tier 1 systems, in your role you will be aligned to at least 1 of these strategic programmes with overall architectural responsibility, escalating where required, to the Head of Architecture and Engineering, or the Head of Internal Technology.

The successful applicant will have a passion for solving business problems with technology and combine exceptional technical capabilities with great communication skills and understanding of how the business operates. The successful candidate will work in a creative, intellectually stimulating environment. You will enjoy autonomy, and the opportunity to have a significant impact on Aurora’s digital strategy, ensuring that our enterprise systems are highly effective and meet the needs of this very fast growing, data heavy business.

Requirements

, guiding senior stakeholders as required, identifying and delivering scalable solutions Required attributes: Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect across multiple domains and delivery streams, with demonstrable impact through roadmaps, standards and governance Deep experience working with and governing 3rd Party integration partners, holding them to account and ensuring delivery and architectural alignment Strong understanding of EA disciplines (business/data/application/technology) and ability to connect them to portfolio and operating-model decisions Track record defining and executing target-state architectures and transition roadmaps (incremental, time to value-led, dependency-aware) Hands-on experience implementing architecture governance: principles, standards, architecture reviews, exception management and decision records Microsoft ecosystem architecture depth relevant to the organisation’s stack, including:Dynamics 365 F&O integration approaches and guidance Salesforce integration approaches and guidance SAP SuccessFactors integration and guidance Power Platform/Dataverse governance and ALM best practice; environment strategy and DLP controls Data Foundation expertise leveraging Microsoft data technologies with particular focus on Microsoft Fabric (or equivalent modern Lakehouse patterns), including governance/lineage and enabling self-service analytics safely Enterp