As our Enterprise Architecture, you will play a key role in shaping ACT's technology direction as we continue to grow our global trading business and expand our digital capabilities.You'll take ownership of our enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring that our technology platforms, systems and investments work together to support business growth. Working at Group level, you'll reporting to Global IT Director and partner closely with senior leadership to influence strategic decisions, bring alignment across teams and build a scalable technology landscape for the future. In essence, your role involves:

• Shape our enterprise architecture strategy: Define and drive a clear technology vision and roadmap across business, applications, data and technology, aligned with ACT's commercial priorities.
• Drive alignment across the Group: Ensure technology initiatives and platforms work together, reducing complexity, duplication and fragmented solutions.
• Lead architecture governance: Establish principles and standards, guide key architecture decisions and challenge investments where needed to ensure long-term scalability and business value.
• Influence strategic technology investments: Advise senior leadership on technology priorities, platform choices and opportunities to optimise our technology landscape.
• Enable business and digital growth: Support the development of integrated platforms and client-facing digital solutions, ensuring technology can scale alongside the business.
• Build and develop architecture capabilities: Strengthen the enterprise architecture function, coach and develop expertise, and collaborate closely with engineering, data, security and business leaders.
• Act as a strategic business partner: Work directly with the COO, Global IT Director and other senior stakeholders, translating business ambitions into practical technology direction.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field. A Master's degree in technology or business is an advantage.
• 10–15 years of progressive experience in architecture and technology, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership position.
• Proven ability to define and drive enterprise architecture strategy, governance and roadmaps across complex organisations, while influencing executive stakeholders.
• Deep expertise across business, application, data and integration architecture, including cloud platforms, APIs and modern design patterns.
• Solid knowledge of established frameworks and methodologies, such as TOGAF and business-capability modelling, with the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• A track record of technology portfolio rationalisation, reducing complexity, identifying consolidation opportunities and optimising investments.
• Strong commercial judgment, translating technical decisions into measurable business value while balancing cost, scalability, risk and speed to market.
• Collaborative and influential leadership style, with experience building architecture capabilities, coaching teams and driving change across an organisation.
• Background in trading, financial services, commodities or other data-intensive, regulated environments is highly advantageous, alongside experience architecting integrated, client-facing digital platforms.

If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.