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Lead Architect

United Kingdom, London 85000.00 - 100000.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted July 03, 2026

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A Lead Architect is accountable for creating the conditions in which good architectural decisions emerge across teams. Rather than acting as a central authority or approval gate, the architect operates as a facilitator - shaping direction, enabling teams, and ensuring that local decisions align with broader system goals, organisational strategy, and long-term sustainability. This role exists to optimise the system as a whole - not individual components - balancing autonomy with coherence across a complex, evolving technology landscape.

Job Responsibility

  • Facilitate architectural thinking within teams rather than owning decisions centrally
  • Support engineers and tech leads in evaluating trade-offs (e.g. scalability, operability, cost, coupling, resilience)
  • Encourage explicit decision-making through lightweight artefacts (e.g. ADRs, design narratives)
  • Ensure decisions are made at the right level - pushing ownership to teams wherever possible
  • Set clear architectural direction through principles, patterns, and 'sensible defaults'
  • Establish and evolve paved roads and golden paths that make good decisions the easiest decisions
  • Avoid heavyweight governance (e.g. design authorities, approval boards) in favour of guidance and enablement
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Delivery leadership to ensure alignment between: Business goals, Product strategy, and Technology direction
  • Help shape decisions around build vs buy, platform vs product, and long-term investment
  • Coach and mentor engineers and tech leads in architectural thinking

Requirements

  • Strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems
  • Deep understanding of architectural trade-offs (e.g. coupling, cohesion, consistency, scalability)
  • Familiarity with evolutionary architecture practices (e.g. fitness functions, incremental change)
  • Experience with modern engineering practices (CI/CD, observability, cloud-native systems)
  • Proven ability to influence without authority across multiple teams
  • Strong facilitation skills - able to guide discussions and surface trade-offs
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and complexity
  • Able to challenge constructively and build alignment across diverse stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Experience working in large-scale digital or media organisations
  • Familiarity with modern product operating models and outcome-driven delivery approaches
  • Exposure to financial planning, vendor management or commercial technology decisions

What we offer

  • Flexible 35-hour working week
  • 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • Option to buy an extra five days annual leave
  • Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions)
  • Caring and parenting support
  • 24/7 remote GP access
  • Life assurance
  • Accident benefit
  • London Weighting Allowance of £5,441
  • 15% bonus OTE
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