Architecture Practice Lead

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

All CVs should be submitted in English.

This position is open to candidates based in countries where World Vision International is legally registered to operate.

As our Architecture Practice Lead, you will lead and enable the Enterprise Architecture practice, ensuring architects are effective, supported, and consistently integrated into organizational ways of working.

The Architecture Practice Lead is accountable for people leadership, practice maturity, and operational enablement, creating the conditions for high-quality architecture outcomes, while technical authority and architectural judgment remain with the Principal Architect.

This role focuses on how the architecture function operates as a capability, not on making enterprise architectural decisions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Practice leadership & capability development

Lead, develop, and support architects across the practice (Solution, Lead, and Enterprise Architects)

Build a cohesive, high-performing architecture practice with clear roles, expectations, and ways of working

Drive capability development, mentoring, and skills uplift aligned to organizational needs

Plan and manage architecture practice capacity to balance demand, priorities, and available resources across the portfolio

Foster a culture of professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Operational enablement of architecture & technical debt

Enable consistent identification, documentation, and visibility of architectural risks and technical debt

Support the Principal Architect in maintaining visibility of the technical debt baseline and agreed remediation actions

Embed architecture engagement into governance, service lifecycle, and planning processes

Coordinate inputs and follow-through across architects, delivery teams, and governance forums

Integration, governance & reporting

Integrate the architecture practice into portfolio, demand, and governance forums

Ensure architecture engagement is predictable, timely, and clearly understood across the organization

Enable effective use and adoption of architecture tools, repositories, and artefacts to support decision-making, governance, and practice maturity Ensure architecture information remains accessible, accurate, and relevant for stakeholders and leadership

Provide visibility of architecture practice health, capacity, and effecti