Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect

Group is the UK’s premier parcel delivery business, uniting four distinct brands—, Premium, a network of DHL, UK Mail and Irish e-commerce specialist Coll-8—to deliver more than 1 billion parcels and letters annually across the UK and to over 200 global destinations. With 12,000 colleagues, 30,000 couriers and drivers, 8,000 vehicles, and a nationwide network of hubs, depots and fulfilment centres, we combine over 50 years of expertise with the scale and flexibility to support everyone from casual senders to SMEs and major retailers. Driven by our friendly, ambitious and diverse people, we are passionate about delivering exceptional service and offer exciting opportunities across the Group.

Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect – Cloud and Network. Set Direction. Shape Strategy. Drive Transformation at Scale. Ready to define technology strategy, influence at the highest levels, and shape enterprise-wide architecture across a complex, fast-moving organisation? At , we’ve laid strong foundations across our Engineering, Product and Delivery functions - creating the scale, structure and ambition needed for the next phase of our transformation. Now, we’re evolving. Not through radical reinvention - but through purposeful, strategic change: aligning technology with business strategy, driving consistency across domains, and ensuring our architecture enables innovation, agility, and long-term growth. This is where you come in. Join us as a Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect – Cloud and Network and play a critical role in shaping the strategy, standards and roadmaps for the cloud platforms, connectivity and architecture patterns that underpin ’s future technology landscape. If you’re passionate about strategic thinking, influencing senior stakeholders, and designing enterprise-level solutions that deliver real impact - this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference. Why now?

We’re focused on:

• Defining and embedding a clear enterprise-wide architecture strategy
• Aligning business goals with technology direction and investment
• Strengthening governance, standards, and architectural consistency
• Investing in scalable cloud platforms, secure and resilient network architecture, modern connectivity patterns, and integration capability
• Enabling innovation while maintaining resilience, security, and performance
• Building a high-performing architecture function with strong leadership and clear purpose

This is a pivotal moment - where the opportunity is to shape the future direction of our technology landscape and influence how we scale for years to come.

What you’ll be doing As a Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect – Cloud and Network, you’ll lead strategic architecture across cloud and network domains - setting direction, guiding decision-making, and ensuring our platforms, connectivity and core technology services are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned to business priorities. You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and the wider business to define enterprise architecture strategy, influence investment decisions, and ensure delivery aligns with long-term goals. You’ll act as both a strategic leader and hands-on influencer, enabling teams to design and deliver solutions that are scalable, resilient, and fit for the future.

Key responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise cloud and network architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps and investment priorities
• Shape cloud platform strategy, including landing zones, hosting patterns, resilience, security, governance and cost optimisation
• Own architectural direction for enterprise network capability, including connectivity, segmentation, performance, availability and hybrid-cloud integration
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security and delivery teams to ensure cloud and network designs are scalable, secure and operationally sustainable
• Lead and develop a team of architects, building capability, consistency, and impact across domains
• Establish and govern architecture standards, policies, and best practices
• Design and oversee enterprise-wide architecture frameworks and roadmaps
• Partner with senior stakeholders to shape investment decisions and technology direction
• Ensure consistency and quality across solution design and architectural outputs
• Drive innovation through the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies
• Build strong relationships with business and technology leaders to influence strategic outcomes
• Oversee architecture governance, risk management, and compliance
• Champion modern design principles, cloud-first thinking, resilient network patterns, and scalable architecture approaches

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise or Principal Architect within a complex organisation
• Strong track record of defining and delivering enterprise architecture strategy
• Experience leading and developing architecture teams
• Deep understanding of architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and modern architecture practices
• Deep expertise in cloud architecture, including enterprise-scale cloud platforms, governance, resilience, security and migration patterns
• Strong understanding of network architecture, including enterprise connectivity, hybrid cloud networking, segmentation, availability, performance and operational resilience
• Experience shaping cloud and network roadmaps in complex, high-volume or business-critical environments
• Ability to balance strategic vision with practical delivery considerations
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior level
• Experience shaping technology roadmaps and aligning them to business outcomes
• A collaborative, forward-thinking mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

We are We know we only grow if our people do too. That’s why we’re committed to creating an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can bring - and be - their whole, authentic selves. We are . Where everyone is welcome. We’re excited for the future. Let’s deliver it together.

Group for everyone

We’re committed to building a truly inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can bring – and be – their whole authentic selves.

We’re also on a mission to be the UK’s most accessible delivery business. We’ve partnered with Scope, the leading disability equality charity, to improve deliveries for millions of customers and give extra support to our colleagues and couriers who need it. Collaboration is key because we work better together. Bring passion, ambition and an open mind, and in return we’ll give you respect, flexibility and a place where you can thrive.

At Group, everyone is welcome.