Lead Architect
Posted 4 days ago by LA International
£750 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Lead Architect role requires a seasoned professional with extensive experience in senior architectural or technology leadership within large organizations. The position emphasizes executive communication, stakeholder influencing, and change leadership, alongside a strong background in enterprise data platforms and cloud technologies. The role operates in a hybrid working environment and is classified as inside IR35. Candidates are expected to have a proven track record in leading architectural change and developing distributed architecture teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Articulate complex topics clearly for effective decision making.
- Influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Make pragmatic decisions in ambiguous situations.
- Facilitate productive dialogue among diverse groups.
- Develop others through coaching and feedback.
- Lead change initiatives and help teams navigate uncertainty.
- Frame options in terms of value and support investment decisions.
Key Skills:
- Executive communication skills.
- Stakeholder influencing abilities.
- Strong analytical and evaluative skills.
- Collaboration and facilitation skills.
- Leadership and coaching experience.
- Change leadership capabilities.
- Commercial thinking skills.
- Significant experience in senior architectural roles.
- Proven experience with enterprise data platforms.
- Experience with AI and analytics platforms.
- Strong knowledge of AWS and public cloud platforms.
- Experience with container platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in leading architectural change.
- Experience in building and leading architecture teams.
Salary (Rate): £750 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
**INSIDE IR35** **HYBRID WORKING**
The skills you'll need to succeed Experience you'd be expected to have
- Executive communication - The ability to articulate complex topics clearly and succinctly, tailoring messages for different audiences to enable effective decision making.
- Stakeholder influencing - Skilled at influencing across organisational boundaries and without formal authority, using credibility, evidence and constructive challenge.
- Decision making and judgement - Strong analytical and evaluative skills, balancing pace, risk and value to make pragmatic, well reasoned decisions in ambiguous situations.
- Collaboration and facilitation - The ability to bring together groups with differing priorities, facilitate productive dialogue, and align teams around shared outcomes.
- Leadership and coaching - Skilled in developing others, building confidence and capability, and sustaining high performance through coaching and feedback.
- Change leadership - The capability to maintain momentum through sustained change, helping others navigate uncertainty while translating intent into practical action.
- Commercial thinking - The skill to frame options in terms of value, trade offs and return, supporting prioritisation and investment decisions.
Experience you'd be expected to have
- Significant experience operating at senior architectural or technology leadership level within large, complex organisations.
- Proven experience defining and governing enterprise data platforms and information architectures.
- Experience leading or governing AI and analytics platform capabilities at scale.
- Strong experience with AWS and public cloud platforms in enterprise environments.
- Experience designing and governing container platforms, CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps tooling.
- Experience building and operating shared digital platforms used across multiple business domains.
- Experience leading architectural change in complex environments, including modernisation and platform consolidation.
- Experience building, leading and developing distributed, specialist architecture teams
LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.
A multiple award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over consecutive years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.
Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.