Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Research & Technology Group

Job Description:

This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

The Head of Strategy and Architecture defines, drives, and governs the enterprise-wide digital strategy and architectural direction across the whole of Castrol. The role’s purpose is to connect business strategy to technology execution — ensuring the organisation works as one system, not a collection of isolated parts.

The role ensures that digital investments, platforms, and roadmaps align with organisational goals, deliver long‑term value, and support operational excellence within a secure, compliant environment.

This position requires strong engineering expertise across modern software, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.

What you will do...

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and maintain the enterprise digital strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Build global architectural standards and capabilities, partnering with delivery teams to ensure consistent implementation.
• Own and maintain a global technology roadmap that anticipates future business and technical needs.

Enterprise Architecture Governance

• Lead the creation and evolution of enterprise architecture frameworks, standards, and principles.
• Oversee domain architects (AI, application, data, infrastructure, security) to ensure consistent architecture practices.
• Govern architecture decisions to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, cost‑effective, and strategically aligned.
• Define standardised processes, set guardrails for local variations, and conduct regular audits to ensure global consistency and compliance across key digital domains.
• Chair the Castrol digital design authority; ensuring all digital projects conform to Castrol’s reference architecture

Digital Portfolio

• Own the digital portfolio, ensuring investment decisions reflect risk, organisational capability, and strategic alignment.
• Strengthen design and engineering assurance through clear governance models, design reviews, and early risk identification and mitigation.
• Drive digital roadmaps across areas such as cloud and security, ensuring cohesive transformation across platforms.

Leadership and Relationship Management

• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Manage key digital vendors.
• Build strong relationships with product, engineering, and senior digital leadership.
• Lead and develop a team of Enterprise and Solution architects on the execution of the digital strategy

Advanced Analytics & Data

• Define and implement Castrol’s data strategy - including support of IoT; industrialisation strategy
• Ensure the continued development of Castrol’s strategic data assets, including HDW.
• Develop, own and implement the roadmap for new data sources and integration.
• Ensure data quality measures are established and data quality maintained.
• Embed M/AI capabilities into core platform.
• Working with strategy and architecture establish data guidelines for projects to follow.

What you will bring...

• Extensive experience in global enterprise and solution architecture (or related field), with relevant architecture accreditation/certification (e.g. TOGAF).
• Solid grounding in cloud platforms (Azure), microservices and APIs, data architecture (EDW, data mesh, analytics), security architecture principles, and platform and engineering enablement.
• Deep experience in advanced analytics and AI.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture tools and frameworks (e.g. capability models).
• Proven ownership of multi-year, enterprise-wide architecture strategy within a global, multi-site business.
• Delivery-focused, customer-centric self-starter who is collaborative, supportive and inspires trust, with the gravitas to be instantly credible.
• Clear and effective communicator with a proven track record of engaging and collaborating with technical and non-technical team members, including senior leaders and C‑suite.
• Commercial and pragmatic, with the ability to operate effectively across both strategy and operations.
• Proactive and solution-focused, comfortable working at pace, across cultures, and in complex organisational environments.
• Consistent in delivering to deadlines and remaining effective under pressure.
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills; able to lead multi-functional teams and instigate change at all levels.
• Proven leadership of architecture teams in fast-paced, multi-market environments, including enterprise and solution architects, vendors and global multi-functional teams.
• Strong critical thinking skills; can own and operationally deliver multi-year architecture strategy.
• Strong negotiation and vendor management capability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Fluency in English, with excellent written communication skills.

Desirable Skills

• Formal architecture accreditation e.g. TOGAF
• Experience of embedding AI/ML into platforms
• Experience gained in an CPG environment
• Knowledge of emerging technology and innovation trends

Why join us?

We're committed to supporting leaders who want to make an impact. You will have the chance to shape and influence significant business outcomes. You’ll be part of an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and where your contribution to performance and integration matters.

We invest in the growth and wellbeing of our people, providing the resources, networks, and development opportunities needed to thrive.

Our total rewards package includes competitive pay, bonuses and a range of benefits designed to meet your needs. We recognise that people have multifaceted lives, and we strive to offer a career experience that reflects that.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Digital Strategy, Digital Technology

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