Laing O'Rourke is looking for a Head of Enterprise Architecture to shape and govern the future of our enterprise technology landscape across our Europe and Australia hubs.

This role will define the architectural vision that supports our digital transformation, ensuring our platforms, data and infrastructure are modern, resilient and aligned with business priorities.

Working closely with IT leadership and business stakeholders, you will provide the architectural guardrails that guide major technology investments and enable the organisation to simplify, modernise and scale its digital capabilities.

What will the role look like?

You will play a key role in:

• Defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture vision, principles and target-state blueprints across business, data, application, integration and technology domains.
• Establishing and leading architecture governance and design authority, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, security requirements and strategic priorities.
• Shaping technology roadmaps and transformation programmes, supporting platform modernisation, application rationalisation and improved data foundations.
• Leading and developing the Solution Architecture community, ensuring consistent design quality and strong collaboration across delivery teams and IT functions.

What skills & experience are we looking for?

• We are looking for an experienced technology leader who can provide strategic direction while enabling practical delivery across a complex enterprise environment.
• Ideally, you will bring:
• Extensive experience leading Enterprise Architecture within large or federated organisations, including establishing governance, principles and architectural frameworks.
• Strong expertise across enterprise architecture domains including business, data, applications, integration, infrastructure and cloud technologies.
• A proven track record of modernising legacy systems, rationalising application portfolios and simplifying complex technology landscapes.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate architectural strategy clearly to senior leaders and guide investment decisions.

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About Us

Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com