Job Description: Tech Architecture Manager Location: London Career Level: Manager ML7 Working at the forefront of multiple industries, our Architecture team leads the design and delivery of some of the largest, most complex, and highest-profile technology transformations in the world. We bring together deep technology, business, and industry expertise to set direction, solve critical challenges, and deliver architectures that scale, endure, and create real impact.
In our team, you will:
- Lead and shape conversations with clients, defining and driving solutions to real-world problems through a blend of architecture and engineering across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
- Set the technical direction, influencing decisions at scale while being backed by industry-leading training, certifications, and structured coaching and mentoring programmes.
As an Architect, you will:
- Lead Technical Governance: Act as a Design Authority for large-scale programs, ensuring delivery teams align with the strategic vision and adhere to modern engineering standards.
- Own the Agentic Roadmap: Guide clients through the architectural evolution to active Agentic AI workflows, addressing the complexities of orchestration, state management, and autonomy.
- Ensure Robustness & Security: Own the design of enterprise-wide applications that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure zero trust identity and access management (never trust, always verify)
- Drive Strategy & Modernization: Partner directly with clients and where necessary our partner ecosystem to translate business goals into technical requirements, defining target operating models and modernization roadmaps.
- Optimize Value: Drive system performance and cost-efficiency, advising clients on Cloud Economics (FinOps), sustainability (Green Software), and resilience ensuring high performance, observable architectures especially where GenAI and Agentic play a
- Champion system performance, resilience, and efficiency: Proactively identifying and addressing consumption and scalability challenges. Champion full stack observability using modern full stack observability, SRE and AIOps
- Manage & Mentor: Lead teams of architects and engineers, providing technical coaching, career counselling, performance management, and coaching to elevate technical excellence.
We are looking for experience in the following:
- Strategic Architecture: A strong command of software architecture with the ability to link technical decisions to business outcomes (e.g., TCO, speed to market).