Lead Architect

Lead Architect – FTSE Top-20 business – fully remote

My multi-billion-pound client is looking for a Lead Architect who will be given the autonomy to drive a major strategic architecture transformation across the business unit. This is an incredibly challenging but rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in one of the world’s leading companies. The role involves taking responsibility for the current state of a complex, mature and disparate technology landscape and defining and driving a comprehensive architecture modernisation and transformation program.

We require somebody who is an excellent communicator as well as having technical depth (especially around cloud / mircroservices architecture) to determine an innovative and compelling future estate vision.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure full breadth of the current state architecture is consistently documented, metric-ed and understood including costs, availability, sustainability, compliance and security status.
• Create and maintain a progressive, innovative and compelling future state architecture vision. This must be aligned with appropriate principles, standards, costs and strategy.
• Develop, drive and iterate the transformation roadmap from current systems towards this future state, within the constraints of the business
• Participate in and help to build out the architect community across business units within the UK. Advocate for increased consistency of architecture across this community.

Experience and skills:

• Delivery experience in modern agile methodologies and processes for complex distributed high-performance, resilient, scalable, secure, data-centric systems
• Significant technical depth in designing progressive architectures that apply a broad combination of innovative technologies – 10+ years’ experience in similar roles designing for cloud-native, microservices, RESTful API design, big data engineering and analytics
• Expertise with mainstream cloud platforms and technologies, to deliver customer outcomes: AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks
• Direct experience in driving and supporting architecture modernisation and transformation programs with full support from key stakeholders across the enterprise.

Please send your CV for immediate consideration and further discussion.

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