Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect

Evri Group is the UK’s premier parcel delivery business, uniting four distinct brands— Evri , Evri Premium, a network of DHL, UK Mail and Irish e-commerce specialist Coll-8—to deliver more than 1 billion parcels and letters annually across the UK and to over 200 global destinations. With 12,000 colleagues, 30,000 couriers and drivers, 8,000 vehicles, and a nationwide network of hubs, depots and fulfilment centres, we combine over 50 years of expertise with the scale and flexibility to support everyone from casual senders to SMEs and major retailers. Driven by our friendly, ambitious and diverse people, we are passionate about delivering exceptional service and offer exciting opportunities across the Evri Group.

Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect – Cloud and Network. Set Direction. Shape Strategy. Drive Transformation at Scale. Ready to define technology strategy, influence at the highest levels, and shape enterprise-wide architecture across a complex, fast-moving organisation? At Evri , we’ve laid strong foundations across our Engineering, Product and Delivery functions - creating the scale, structure and ambition needed for the next phase of our transformation. Now, we’re evolving. Not through radical reinvention - but through purposeful, strategic change: aligning technology with business strategy, driving consistency across domains, and ensuring our architecture enables innovation, agility, and long-term growth. This is where you come in. Join us as a Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect – Cloud and Network and play a critical role in shaping the strategy, standards and roadmaps for the cloud platforms, connectivity and architecture patterns that underpin Evri ’s future technology landscape. If you’re passionate about strategic thinking, influencing senior stakeholders, and designing enterprise-level solutions that deliver real impact - this is your opportunity to make a lasting difference. Why now?
We’re focused on:

- Defining and embedding a clear enterprise-wide architecture strategy

- Aligning business goals with technology direction and investment

- Strengthening governance, standards, and architectural consistency

- Investing in scalable cloud platforms, secure and resilient network architecture, modern connectivity patterns, and integration capability

- Enabling innovation while maintaining resilience, security, and performance

- Building a high-performing architecture function with strong leadership and clear purpose

This is a pivotal moment - where the opportunity is to shape the future direction of our technology landscape and influence how we scale for years to come.

What you’ll be doing As a Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect – Cloud and Network, you’ll lead strategic architecture across cloud and network domains - setting direction, guiding decision-making, and ensuring our platforms, connectivity and core technology services are scalable, secure, resilient and aligned to business priorities. You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and the wider business to define enterprise architecture strategy, influence investment decisions, and ensure delivery aligns with long-term goals. You’ll act as both a strategic leader and hands-on influencer, enabling teams to design and deliver solutions that are scalable, resilient, and fit for the future.
Key responsibilities

- Define and lead the enterprise cloud and network architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technology roadmaps and investment priorities

- Shape cloud platform strategy, including landing zones, hosting patterns, resilience, security, governance and cost optimisation

- Own architectural direction for enterprise network capability, including connectivity, segmentation, performance, availability and hybrid-cloud integration

- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, security and delivery teams to ensure cloud and network designs are scalable, secure and operationally sustainable

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