Enterprise Technical Architect

Role Overview: Please note this role offers hybrid working at our Canary Wharf office 1-2 days per week, with travel to our administration partner in Peterborough around 1-2 times per month to support collaboration, service oversight and key operational activities. It's a great time to join Nest. As we continue to evolve our technology landscape, we're strengthening our Technology Strategy and Architecture team to help shape the future of the organisation. These newly created roles offer the opportunity to influence how technology supports our long-term strategy, helping define the capabilities, architecture and partnerships that will enable us to be more agile, deliver meaningful change and better serve the millions of members who rely on us.  You'll work across business and technology teams, collaborating with stakeholders and strategic delivery partners to turn ambitious goals into practical outcomes. This is a role for someone who enjoys influencing rather than directing, bringing people together to solve complex challenges and helping organisations navigate the journey from where they are today to where they want to be in the future. In return, you'll have the opportunity to make a lasting impact, shape a growing function and play a key role in defining Nest's technology direction. The minimum criteria for this role are:    We're looking for an experienced technology professional who can bring business, technology and delivery partners together to shape practical solutions and help Nest progress towards its future technology vision.  

• Bring technology experience, ideally gained in enterprise or customer facing environments, whether through enterprise or solution architecture, software development, data engineering, or a similar technical discipline.
• Build strong relationships with third-party suppliers and delivery partners, working collaboratively to deliver outcomes while providing constructive challenge when needed.
• Translate business priorities and customer needs into practical, scalable and secure technology solutions that deliver value for members and colleagues.
• Provide architectural guidance across technology and change initiatives, helping teams navigate complexity and make informed technology decisions.
• Bring a broad understanding of modern technology across areas such as cloud, applications, integration, data, infrastructure and security.
• Take a curious, pragmatic and collaborative approach, bringing people together, balancing competing priorities and helping drive meaningful progress.   Experience working in a customer facing environment is essential, and experience within financial services or another regulated sector would be beneficial. We're open to candidates who have developed their expertise through different technical career paths and are looking to apply their skills in an enterprise architecture environment. Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential. At Nest, you'll have access to a range of learning opportunities to learn, grow and build the skills you need to be successful in your role and career.   Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role. Flexible and agile working Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required) 
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share Directorate/Department Overview The Nest Technology Strategy and Architecture team sits within our Services and Solutions department with responsibilities covering technology, change management, operations, data analytics and customer insights. The Technology Strategy and Architecture team is responsible for setting the strategy for our technology capabilities, working with our delivery partners to realise the strategy, ensuring the cyber security of the capabilities and delivering a best in class corporate IT service to the rest of the enterprise Organisational Overview Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country. Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

  Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation. Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.