Principal Enterprise Architect - Information

Closing Date: 13/3
Locations - Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester or London 3 days a week onsite

Why this job matters

This is a senior, group-wide Information Architect role, focused on defining and governing enterprise information architecture and information models across BT Group. You'll provide clear direction on metadata, data governance, quality, and compliance, and work closely with senior stakeholders and architecture teams across multiple business areas to enable consistent, scalable information foundations—particularly to support AI and broader data-driven initiatives.
This role sits within BT Group's architecture community, working across Data, AI and Corporate Units to define and govern enterprise information architecture and models that support effective data governance, quality, metadata management and compliance. 

What you’ll be doing

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.

Skills and Experiences

• 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’

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

With over 175 years of heritage, BT is now the flagship business brand of BT Group. We’ve brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally.

We’re a global leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses.

We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.

As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.