Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect

Evri Group is the UK’s premier parcel delivery business, uniting four distinct brands—Evri, Evri 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 Evri Group.

Principal Enterprise Architect – 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 Evri, 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 Architect and play a critical role in shaping our enterprise architecture strategy, leading our architecture community, and ensuring our technology landscape enables business success at scale.

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 platforms, cloud capability, and modern integration patterns

• 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 Architect, you’ll lead our architecture function - setting strategic direction, guiding decision-making, and ensuring alignment between business priorities and technology solutions.

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 architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives

• 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, and scalable architecture patterns

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

• Expertise across cloud platforms, integration patterns, and enterprise systems

• 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 Evri

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 Evri. Where everyone is welcome. We’re excited for the future. Let’s deliver it together.

Evri 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 Evri Group, everyone is welcome.