Principal Architect Generalist

Job Description

About Us

We are part of International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s leading airline groups and owner of some of the biggest brands in the sky. IAG Transform delivers procurement and airline services, as well as group wide systems across IAG.

Purpose of the role

The Generalist Principal Architect maintains a holistic, enterprise wide architectural view across business, application, information, integration, infrastructure, cloud and service domains. The role is technology agnostic and vendor neutral, providing independent, expert architectural leadership and assurance to ensure that technology change across the Group is coherent, scalable, secure and aligned to business strategy.

Your responsibilities

• Maintain an end to end architectural view across business capability, applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, cloud, security and service layers.
• Ensure architectural coherence across domains, identifying and addressing duplication, fragmentation or misalignment.
• Act as a senior architectural authority able to review, challenge and arbitrate design decisions across multiple technology areas.
• Translate business and Group strategy into clear architectural principles, target states and transition roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, modernise or converge technology landscapes in support of business objectives.
• Support major programmes and initiatives by ensuring architectural integrity from concept through delivery.
• Define, maintain and evolve enterprise architecture standards, guardrails and design principles.
• Provide architecture governance and assurance for significant investments, initiatives and third party solutions.
• Ensure architectural decisions remain aligned to agreed target states throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, technology leaders and programme sponsors.
• Clearly articulate complex architectural concepts in business relevant language.
• Influence decision making through expertise, pragmatism and credibility rather than direct authority.
• Provide architectural leadership across internally delivered, platform based and supplier led solutions.
• Ensure vendor and partner solutions align with enterprise architecture, integration patterns and security standards.
• Promote open, interoperable and sustainable technology approaches.
• Maintain awareness of industry architecture trends and emerging technologies.
• Assess relevance pragmatically, balancing innovation with stability and value.
• Contribute to the ongoing maturity of Group architecture capability and practices.

Your skills, experience and qualifications

• Essential
  • Demonstrable experience operating at Principal or Enterprise Architect level within complex organisations.
  • Proven ability to lead and assure multi domain, enterprise scale architectures.
  • Strong experience influencing senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
  • Broad understanding of architecture across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, cloud and services.
  • Ability to operate effectively in complex, federated or multi operating company environments.
• Desirable
  • Experience operating across international organisations and cultures.
  • Exposure to large scale transformation or modernisation programmes.
  • Contribution to architecture standards, communities or best practice development.
  • Enterprise minded and able to balance strategic thinking with practical judgement.
  • Credible, pragmatic and confident operating at senior levels.
  • Comfortable working across ambiguity, change and complexity.
  • Collaborative, inclusive and outcomes focused.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work in a multi cultural environment with great offices in many locations.
• Support for work/life balance, including health insurance, pension and performance bonuses.

We are an equal opportunities employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.