Head of Enterprise Architecture – Strategy

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DAC Beachcroft

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1001 - 5000 employees

⚖️ Legal

🛡️ Insurance

🏥 Healthcare

Legal • Insurance • Healthcare

DAC Beachcroft is an international commercial law firm and advisor with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. The firm employs over 3,000 people and operates across multiple regions worldwide, offering legal services including dispute resolution, regulatory advice, transactional and commercial work, and industry-specialist counsel. DAC Beachcroft positions itself as a market leader in the global insurance sector and provides multidisciplinary expertise for health and social care clients, while also advising on real estate, financial services and technology matters. The firm emphasizes innovative delivery, use of technology (including AI and digital solutions), and a client-focused, multi-jurisdictional approach.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain the organisation's enterprise technology strategy and multi-year technology roadmap • Conduct technology landscape assessments and evaluate platform investment decisions, ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory requirements • Define and govern the target-state enterprise architecture across applications, data, integrations, infrastructure, and security domains • Establish architecture standards and integration principles for core business platforms • Lead strategic technology evaluations, business cases, and transformation initiatives, including platform modernisation and migration programmes • Assess technology options based on total cost of ownership, business value, scalability, and operational impact • Manage strategic vendor relationships and technology partnerships, including contract negotiations, roadmap reviews, and escalation management • Drive technology adoption and change management initiatives • Advise senior leadership on emerging technologies, market trends, and opportunities for competitive advantage • Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to support current and future organisational needs • Work closely with the CTO, technology leaders, and business stakeholders to guide platform decisions and architectural standards

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in technology leadership, enterprise architecture, technology strategy, or digital transformation roles • Proven track record of delivering large-scale technology transformation, modernisation, or migration programmes • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles, systems integration, and technology governance • Experience developing technology roadmaps that align technical capabilities with business objectives • Commercially astute with strong vendor management and contract negotiation experience • Ability to evaluate complex technology options and communicate recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences • Strong stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior executives and business leaders • Excellent strategic thinking, planning, and problem-solving capabilities • Experience within, or knowledge of, regulated industries • Familiarity with case management, CRM, finance, Data, Analytics and AI solutions • Knowledge of cloud transformation, enterprise integration patterns, and modern application architectures • Experience developing AI, machine learning, or data-driven business capabilities • Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, Cloud Professional Architect or similar • Understanding of technology procurement, business case development, and benefits realisation

🏖️ Benefits

• High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance • A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits) • Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding • In person and remote social events • Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities • Diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace culture