Principal Enterprise Architect – Information

Role Overview

• The Information Architect will be responsible for defining and maintaining enterprise-wide information architecture and information models across BT Group.
• This role focuses on shaping how information is structured, governed, and understood—covering areas such as metadata, data quality, and compliance—so that teams can deliver consistent, trusted data products and capabilities.
• This role involves working in the detail to develop and evolve core information models, while also engaging and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple business and corporate units.
• You'll collaborate closely with data, AI, and architecture communities to ensure the right tools, standards, and modelling approaches are in place to support strategic initiatives, including AI-enabled use cases.
• Responsibilities will include:
• Lead the development and maintenance of the BT Group-wide information architecture, ensuring consistency across business units and platforms.
• Define and govern enterprise information models (conceptual, logical, and where appropriate physical), including key domains, entities, relationships, and canonical definitions.
• Establish and embed standards for metadata management, data quality, and data governance to improve trust, reuse, and compliance across the organisation.
• Partner with senior stakeholders (including architects, engineering teams, and business leaders) to align information architecture to business strategy, AI/analytics needs, and delivery priorities.
• Provide expert guidance and assurance on solution designs, ensuring teams adopt agreed information models, modelling approaches, and tooling.

Requirements

• Has at least three years’ proven experience in enterprise-scale information modelling within large, federated organisations.
• Proven experience in information architecture and enterprise information modelling in complex, large-scale organisations.
• Strong knowledge of data governance disciplines including metadata management, data quality management, and compliance considerations.
• Ability to work in the detail (models, definitions, standards) while also shaping direction and influencing outcomes across teams.
• Shows comprehensive expertise in developing and applying taxonomies, metadata standards, and information classification schemes.
• Can demonstrate successful use of information models to enable AI-driven solutions that meet regulatory and compliance requirements while supporting business objectives.
• Exhibits in-depth understanding of Data Governance and Regulatory Standards, with clear evidence of practical implementation.
• Has a track record of effectively influencing senior stakeholders, including Managing Directors and CxO-level leaders, on the strategic value of information management.

Benefits

• Annual On target bonus 15% (personal and company multipliers)
• Car allowance
• worth £5500 a year, can be taken as cash)
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance
• Direct share scheme
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers
• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership
• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option
• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’