Head of Architecture

Head of Architecture

Location: Chelt enham, UK (Hybrid working)

Benefits: 27 days holiday plus Wellbeing day, Private Medical Insurance, Bonus scheme, Sharescheme, Enhanced pension plan, Life assurance, Discount scheme.

Role Overview:

Are you a visionary technology leader ready to shape the future of enterprise architecture on a global scale? Spirax Group is seeking a Head of Architecture to define and evolve our enterprise technology systems, ensuring they drive innovation, efficiency, and tangible business value. Reporting directly to the Group IT Director, this role offers the opportunity to lead transformative change across a world-class portfolio of products and services.

Your objectives and responsibilities will focus on

• Setting the strategic direction for enterprise solutions across all domains-applications, infrastructure, cyber-security, and data.
• Developing and maintaining enterprise architecture roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business strategy.
• Engaging with business leaders and C-suite stakeholders, translating strategic goals into a clear, actionable technical vision.
• Evaluating and advocating for emerging technologies, including AI/ML, to maintain a competitive edge.
• Establishing and enforcing architectural governance, ensuring consistency, quality, and risk management.
• Leading and mentoring a growing team, starting with 3 direct reports and expanding to 10, while influencing approximately 30 embedded architects across the business.
• Driving transformation initiatives, occasionally leading dedicated teams to deliver major change.

Your previous experience is likely to include

• Substantial experience in engineering architecture, including 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven expertise in at least three of the following domains:
  • Application Architecture
  • Infrastructure Architecture (Azure preferred)
  • Data Architecture
  • Security Architecture
• A strong track record of designing and implementing large-scale, distributed enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience and a deep understanding of architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman) and modern integration patterns (APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture).

To be successful in this role you will

• Demonstrate Company Core Values at all times.
• Be able to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hold professional certifications in TOGAF/Zachman and cloud platforms.
• Be familiar with corporate governance and compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills, with a passion for mentoring and upskilling global teams.
• Possess exceptional communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multinational industrial engineering group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping, and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer, and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and equipment across diverse industries such as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors, and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide solutions behind many daily items, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions, and inspires us everywhere we operate. We support colleagues to make their difference for each other, customers, communities, suppliers, our planet, and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working, and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday (before bank holidays), 3 days paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, an enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts portal. We also offer additional support through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. This includes supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued-across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and more.

We consider requests for flexible working and have introduced benefits such as gender-neutral parental leave, paid caregiver leave, support for pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles, and more. Learn more at .

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you wish to apply under this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.