Principal Architect

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience operating as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, Lead Architect, or Digital Strategist in a consulting service-delivery context
• Extensive knowledge of industry-standard software packages or SaaS offerings, such as CRM, ERP, and IDAM, and cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
• Operating model design and implementation experience, including leading environments that continuously improve flow
• Experience as a data practitioner at either a strategic or technical level
• Experience driving new digital consulting business acquisition, with ownership of commercial sales targets
• Exposure to regulated, safety-critical, or critical national infrastructure environments
• Degree education and/or professional qualifications and accreditations relevant to your domain expertise

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural and technology leadership in client consulting engagements
• Operate as a trusted advisor to C-suite and board-level stakeholders, shaping technology and transformation strategy beyond the boundaries of a single engagement
• Own and grow strategic client relationships, keeping senior stakeholders focused on outcomes and value
• Own overall architecture definition and architectural leadership in large change programmes or significant areas of work
• Lead technology selection and create technology roadmaps at enterprise level
• Define, validate, and deliver organisation-wide architecture and technology strategies aligned to client business strategy
• Influence client policy and strategy, shaping programme, function, and organisational direction
• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand priorities and agree enterprise-level architectural trade-offs
• Use analytical and technical expertise to make decisions that drive client transformation across multiple sectors
• Define and optimise the execution model in digital, agile, and product-centric environments
• Manage cross-discipline and architecture teams, setting objectives and ensuring outcomes are delivered
• Adapt to complex, challenging, and low-clarity environments, establishing foundations and addressing gaps or uncertainty
• Drive best practice across portfolios and programmes, assuring quality of both operation and outcome
• Produce clear models of strategy, architectures, solutions, and operating models for diverse audiences
• Prepare and present high-standard reports and recommendations to technical and executive audiences
• Ensure client security, regulatory, and compliance needs are met throughout delivery
• Support commercial delivery by ensuring contractual commitments are met and remain relevant
• Lead the development and creation of new services for the Architecture practice
• Collaborate across the business on new offerings and represent the practice in cross-functional teams
• Support new business development through commercial bids, early client conversations, and pre-sales engagements
• Continually assess team output to develop reusable intellectual property and strengthen the value proposition
• Build strong relationships with suppliers, partners, and colleagues across the business
• Participate in industry forums and events to expand knowledge
• Develop technical skills by pursuing certification and other development opportunities

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• CRM
• ERP
• Flow
• Support
• Security

More:

We are an award-winning digital consultancy with a track record of delivering complex digital change. Our Architecture practice comprises consulting practitioners across a variety of domains, technologies, and business sectors, and our team also works in user-centric design, product and platform-centric agile delivery, and AI-enabled engineering. We offer a personalised, consultative approach, supporting clients to choose the optimal way to deliver strategic priorities and improve operating models. We are growing and value learning potential, inclusion, and flexibility, with a healthy work/life balance. The role is based around our central Leeds office with attendance 1 to 2 times a week, plus some client-site travel as needed. Salary starts from £98,000 upwards depending on experience, and our benefits include private health cover, wellbeing support, bonus, pension, 25 holidays plus extra days, an EV car scheme, learning and development funding, volunteer days, arena access, referral schemes, and employee recognition. We are Best Companies rated and B Corp certified.

last updated 36 week of 2026