Chief Architect

Salary: £95,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience operating as a Chief Architect, Enterprise Architect, or senior architecture leader within a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong experience owning enterprise architecture roadmaps, governance, and target-state architectures.
• Deep expertise across the Microsoft technology stack, including Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and data platforms.
• Experience leading large-scale digital transformation and business change programmes.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native, integration, data, and application architecture principles.
• Ability to engage and influence executive and board-level stakeholders.
• Outstanding communication, leadership, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience within the Healthcare, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Clinical Services, or wider HealthTech sectors is highly desirable.
• Understanding of operating within regulated environments with complex governance and compliance requirements is highly desirable.
• Experience delivering architecture across customer, operational, clinical, and corporate business domains is highly desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve our enterprise architecture strategy, vision, and multi-year technology roadmap.
• Act as our senior architectural authority across the organisation.
• Translate our business strategy into practical and scalable technology solutions.
• Lead our architecture governance, standards, principles, and decision-making frameworks.
• Drive architectural alignment across programmes, projects, and product teams.
• Establish future-state architectures that support growth, innovation, security, and resilience.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to influence technology investment decisions.
• Lead and mentor architects across multiple domains and delivery teams.
• Ensure our architecture remains commercially focused, pragmatic, and outcome-driven.
• Provide leadership across our Microsoft-centric technology landscape, including Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Data & AI Services, Microsoft 365, enterprise integration and API platforms, and digital, data, cloud, and security architecture.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• Fabric
• Support
• Microsoft 365
• Security
• Office 365

More:

We are hiring a Chief Architect for a high-profile hybrid role focused on Microsoft technology leadership and enterprise-wide transformation. This is an opportunity to shape the future technology direction of a major organisation, with autonomy, influence, and executive sponsorship to deliver a modern architecture vision in a flexible hybrid environment. We view architecture as a strategic capability and a critical enabler of business success.

last updated 31 week of 2026