About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Must hold an active SC clearance.
- Must have a British passport.
- Proven experience leading architecture teams in large, complex enterprise environments.
- Significant AWS architecture experience, including multi-account environments and cloud operating models.
- Experience defining enterprise architecture strategies, technology roadmaps, and governance frameworks.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure, networking, security, identity, and platform architecture.
- Experience leading architecture assurance, design reviews, and major technology decision-making.
- Experience with platform engineering, cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps, and automation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior executives and technical leaders.
- Experience managing strategic supplier and technology partner relationships.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the LECP target architecture, technology strategy, and multi-year roadmap.
- Lead Technical Design Authority activities, architecture governance, and design assurance processes.
- Provide leadership across cloud, infrastructure, security, platform engineering, integration, and data architecture.
- Establish architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
- Oversee AWS platform architecture, landing zones, networking, identity, and shared services.
- Drive adoption of platform engineering, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and automation practices.
- Lead architecture engagement with suppliers, delivery partners, and hyperscalers.
- Oversee architecture risk, technical debt, and strategic technology decisions.
- Support adoption and governance of AI-enabled engineering, operational, and security capabilities.
- Develop, mentor, and grow the LECP architecture community.
Technologies
- AI
- ARM
- AWS
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- Support
- Security
- Architect
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This is a six-month Head of Architecture contract with a January start. We are advertising the vacancy through ARM, a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy offering technical contingency recruitment and complex resource solutions across the technical arena. The role provides senior architectural authority for the LECP platform, covering its architectural vision, technology strategy, governance, and design assurance. We will not send your CV without your permission.
last updated 46 week of 2026