Lead Architect - Managed Services

Salary: £100,000 - 115,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Lead, Account, or Enterprise Architect within Managed Services.
• Broad, cross-domain architecture experience rather than a single technology specialism.
• Experience governing large and complex technology estates.
• Strong senior stakeholder and client relationship management skills.
• Proven technical leadership and influencing capability.
• Commercial awareness and experience working within Managed Services contracts and delivery environments.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end account architecture across a complex technology estate.
• Provide architectural leadership across Cloud, Infrastructure, Networks, Security, Workplace, and other technology domains.
• Define technology roadmaps and future-state architectures.
• Govern technical change and ensure alignment with standards and contractual commitments.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Provide technical direction and leadership across architecture and engineering teams.
• Balance technical, commercial, and business requirements within a Managed Services environment.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Cloud
• Security

More:

We are hiring a senior Lead Architect to join the Account Leadership Team in a large and complex Managed Services environment based onsite at Heathrow. This is a genuine architecture leadership role with responsibility for overall technical direction, governance, and architectural integrity across the account. You will act as a trusted technical adviser to senior stakeholders, shape strategy across a broad technology landscape, and lead a community of Domain Architects and Engineers. We offer a salary of circa £115,000 plus benefits, and the role requires SC clearance.

last updated 33 week of 2026