Principal Strategy – Architecture Lead

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders, providing strategic guidance across technology, digital, and organisational change initiatives
• Lead the development of enterprise, digital, and technology strategies, aligning business objectives with architectural direction
• Define and shape strategic roadmaps, ensuring clear prioritisation, sequencing, and delivery feasibility
• Provide enterprise and security architecture leadership, setting direction, standards, and best practice across complex environments
• Facilitate executive workshops and stakeholder engagements to support decision-making, alignment, and consensus building
• Design and shape target operating models that enable organisational transformation and improved service outcomes
• Support business case development and investment planning, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and value realisation
• Establish and contribute to governance forums, providing oversight, challenge, and assurance on key decisions and programmes
• Lead or support transformation planning and mobilisation, ensuring initiatives are set up for successful delivery
• Conduct independent reviews and assurance activities to identify risk, provide insight, and improve delivery confidence
• Provide thought leadership across strategy, architecture, and assurance disciplines within customer engagements and internally
• Collaborate across Phoenix teams to support business development, bids, and the growth of the ESAA capability
• Contribute to the development of ESAA methodologies, frameworks, and propositions
• Build strong, trusted relationships across customer organisations and wider stakeholders
• Help customers navigate complexity, reduce risk, and achieve successful, sustainable outcomes

Requirements

• Proven experience influencing strategy, architecture, or transformation in complex environments
• Strong understanding across areas such as enterprise strategy, technology, cyber security, and architecture
• Ability to engage and build credibility with senior stakeholders and executive teams
• Skilled at translating complex challenges into clear, practical direction
• Experience providing governance, assurance, and constructive challenge
• Strong analytical thinking and sound decision-making capability
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Ability to lead through influence and build strong, collaborative relationships
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and balancing strategic vision with delivery realities
• Public sector experience desirable

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in enterprise strategy, technology architecture, and governance, with a strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organizational transformation. Proven capability in developing strategic roadmaps and facilitating decision-making processes to achieve sustainable outcomes.