Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.

Fastmarkets data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

Job Description

The Role

The Enterprise Architect will play a pivotal role in reviewing, designing and implementing a robust, scalable, and future-ready IT architecture. Reporting directly to Head of IT Operations, this position will work closely with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic vision while driving innovation and transformation. Your expertise will directly support the business-wide transformation efforts, enhancing systems resilience and efficiencies whilst reducing complexity and enabling growth.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Lead the review and implementation of the company’s greenfield enterprise architecture, ensuring resilience, scalability and flexibility to support current and future business needs.
2. Develop comprehensive architecture blueprints and roadmaps that align IT and business strategy.
3. Collaborate with stakeholders across business units, including IT, product, operations, and finance, to understand and address business needs.
4. Ensure the integration of systems across multiple platforms and technologies, supporting agriculture, forest products, metals and mining, and energy transition verticals.
5. Partner with the CIO and senior leadership to provide architecture direction in alignment with transformation goals and private equity exit strategy.
6. Manage and guide technology investments in areas such as cloud infrastructure, data management, cybersecurity, and application development.
7. Ensure adherence to industry best practices, data governance, and regulatory requirements.
8. Identify and mitigate architectural risks while driving efficiency and reducing costs.
9. Support M&A activities by ensuring the integration and consolidation of IT systems during and after acquisitions.
10. Lead the selection and management of third-party vendors to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of solutions.
11. Continuously evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies to future-proof the architecture.
12. Ensure architectural practices and designs comply with agreed certifications and industry standards.

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

1. Significant experience as a Senior Enterprise Architect Technical Manager in a Global, fast-growing organisation.
2. Be able to balance task orientation with people orientation i.e., focus on delivery of the plan, but not to the exclusion of all else, be able to influence both staff and team members.
3. Be commercially astute; have experience of commercial negotiations with partners / suppliers.
4. Proven experience (8+ years) as an Enterprise Architect or similar role, ideally within a price reporting agency (PRA), financial services, or information services sector.
5. Demonstrated success in leading architecture projects in a post-carve out or business transformation context.
6. In-depth knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
7. Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and microservices architecture.
8. Experience with data management and governance in highly regulated environments.
9. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage, influence, and challenge senior leadership and external partners.
10. Knowledge of the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining, or energy transition markets is a plus.
11. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and project management skills.

Personal Attributes

1. Strategic thinker with the ability to execute and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
2. Highly collaborative and able to work across multiple teams and geographies.
3. Strong business acumen with the ability to align IT initiatives with broader business goals.
4. Results-driven, with a focus on long-term value creation.

If youre excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications dont perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN.We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance.
• ACCOUNTABLE.We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done.
• GROWTH MINDSET.This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency.
• INCLUSIVE.We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC.We are customer-centric in all that we do.
• COLLABORATIVE.We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.

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