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Principal Enterprise Architect

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-21 Spain - Barcelona Full-time Hybrid ICT

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Market rate

6,500 GBP–10,000 GBP/mo (78,000 GBP–120,000 GBP/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Are you ready to inspire change and make a significant impact At AstraZeneca, we are committed to delivering life-changing medicines while embedding sustainability into every aspect of our work. As a Principal Enterprise Architect in Sustainability, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our architecture decisions align with both business ambitions and IT strategy. This position is focused on strategic planning over a 1-5 year horizon, as well as immediate solution design projects. You will be instrumental in developing architecture standards, technology strategies, and roadmaps that support our mission to tackle the biggest sustainability challenges of our time. Accountabilities: As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will: - Provide enterprise design thinking and support across various domains of architecture including Business, Application, Integration, Cloud, Data & Analytics, and AI/ML. - Lead efforts to ensure architecture decisions support business and IT strategy, ensuring compliance with AZ standards, blueprints, and roadmaps. - Participate in architecture assessments and reviews, contributing as a lead reviewing architect or domain expert. - Document and share knowledge and standard methodologies to develop the architecture capability and practice. - Be accountable for developing architecture standards, technology domain strategies, roadmaps, and blueprints. - Define and update 'Transition' and 'To-Be' architectures applying AZ guiding principles. - Support

Requirements

  • ● Relevant technical degree or equivalent
  • ● Proven experience of leading change and challenging approaches/ideas
  • ● Strong networking skills with good internal/external links
  • ● Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills
  • ● Ability to interpret and communicate technical information into business language
  • ● Awareness of marketplace developments and their relevance to AZ
  • ● Ability to work well in diverse, multinational teams and influence others positively
  • ● Open mind to learning new skills and capabilities
  • ● Ability to follow agile and incremental architecture approaches
  • ● Strong analytical skills on architecture trade-offs
  • ● Demonstrate initiative, strong customer orientation, and cross-cultural working
  • ● People development experience
  • ● Budget management experience
  • ● Masters or equivalent experience and/or professional certification
  • ● Good understanding of industry technology trends regarding Agentic AI
  • ● Good eye for business
  • ● Understanding of the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry
  • ● When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace, and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
  • ● AstraZeneca offers an environment where technical skills meet emotional intelligence. Join a team of highly qualified professionals who are persuasive communicators with empathy. We focus on the human impact of changes we drive, leading to complete solutions for the business. With the freedom to explore innovative technologies, there's never a dull moment as you create a significant footprint through continuous learning and growth.
  • ● Ready to take on this exciting challenge Apply now to join AstraZeneca's journey towards sustainability and innovation