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Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Janes equips defence, government, and industry leaders with objective, accurate, and shareable data and analysis. Our experts combine advanced technology with proven tradecraft to deliver validated and contextual intelligence to assess threats, accelerate decisions, and anticipate change with confidence. We deliver our intelligence with the flexibility to fuse it with multiple sources in any system, enrich AI solutions, or access it through our portal.
Job purpose:
Janes is evolving a complex product and technology estate to deepen customer value and strengthen its intelligence advantage. This includes enhancing our Single Intelligence Environment, expanding customer delivery and integration, and moving safely from legacy platforms while meeting demanding security, compliance, and accreditation needs.
We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who can connect enterprise direction through to solution design and delivery. This role will be the face of Architecture for Janes and the senior architecture authority within Engineering, setting clear direction while working closely with teams to turn strategy into practical designs and deliverable outcomes. The role spans an AWS-focused product technology domain with complex defence intelligence data: content and data processing and management, AI and machine learning services, master and reference data, graph and search, APIs, internal analyst and customer-facing portals, and direct-to-customer data delivery.
This role suits a hands-on individual contributor who is comfortable using influence to enable change. The successful candidate will chair architecture forums, lead decision-making through lightweight governance, maintain architecture artefacts and standards, and evolve tooling capabilities. This role may suit someone on a Head of Architecture track who enjoys remaining technically engaged. It is not suitable for anyone who wants to remain divorced from delivery and the realities and responsibilities that come with it.
How you will contribute at Janes:
The ideal skills and experience for this role are:
Benefits:
We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.
Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.
Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this. We will always consider part time or flexible applications