The Role

CitNOW Group has rapidly expanded through multiple acquisitions, creating an exciting ecosystem of platforms, applications and data landscapes.

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define and implement a group-wide architecture strategy that unifies these systems within a cohesive, scalable and future-ready environment, enabling us to accelerate innovation in a secure and scalable manner.

This role is critical in harmonising technology across acquired entities, ensuring seamless integration, robust data architecture and alignment with our vision for connected automotive dealer platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a unified enterprise architecture framework that spans all acquired businesses
• Define standards and blueprints for integration, data architecture, and core enterprise systems
• Lead the design of integration strategies to connect disparate platforms, applications, and processes across the group and with external third-parties
• Oversee consolidation of legacy systems while enabling interoperability with modern automotive software solutions
• Establish a group-wide data architecture to ensure consistency, quality, and accessibility of information (aligned to the group remediation schedule)
• Implement governance frameworks for master data management, analytics, and compliance with industry regulations
• Design and maintain models for business, application, and technology architectures
• Ensure scalability, security, and resilience across infrastructure and software platforms
• Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies (AI/ML, IoT, cloud-native, etc.) across the group
• Identify and drive modernisation initiatives such as microservices adoption, cloud migration and others
• Partner with leaders across acquired entities to align local systems with group-wide standards

Our Brand Values

• We are powered by our people
• We delight our customers
• We make it happen
• We are always learning
• We are One Team

Knowledge & Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, with proven success in post-merger or acquisition integration
• Expertise in integration platforms, data architecture, and cloud technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across diverse business units
• Identity, access and security experience, including IDaaS platforms, preferably Keycloak, and SSO integration patterns
• Integration architecture experience, including event-driven architecture patterns, API design, management, and governance, and experience improving and optimising ETL processes using IPaaS tooling
• Data architecture experience, including data modelling, cataloguing, and associated governance
• Software Architecture experience, including microservices, monoliths, hexagonal, etc
• Experience establishing group architectural patterns without slowing down individual teams or reducing autonomy