Enterprise Architect

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Flexible working with up to 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 20th June 2025

At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company.  As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.  

Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens.  We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks.  If you’re ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.  

We are seeking applicants from around the business interested in building their career within Architecture. This could be your 1st step into this specialism with a supported learning plan to ensure you gain the correct skills to be a success.

In a nutshell

The Business Domain Architect role is aligned to a specific business domain or value stream within Virgin Atlantic. They work closely with business stakeholders to understand the vision and goals for their domain, develop current and future state architectures—covering business, application, and data—and manage a roadmap to reach the target state. This role also contributes to Virgin Atlantic’s overall technical strategy and supports the drive for innovation.

Day to day

Develop close business relationships, understand, and influence digital business strategies
Develop Current and Future State Business, Data and Application Architectures
Develop and maintain pragmatic and actionable roadmaps
Support the formation of Technology Investment Portfolios
Contribute to Technical Architectures to ensure alignment to Business Strategy
Contribute to the development of Technical Strategies and Reference Architectures
Manage Total Risk and Cost across the IT Estate

About you

General interest in architectural roles (e.g., Solution, Business, or Enterprise Architecture).
Broad understanding of business, application, and data architecture principles.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and how to apply them in practice.
Experience gained with Virgin Atlantic or another Virgin Company.
Familiarity with operating model design.
Willingness to learn a newfunction

Our recipe for leadership

At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2687

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en