Overview
Job Role: Lead Architect
Salary: £114,000 - £136,000 dependant on experience +20% bonus + car allowance
Working location: Milton Keynes / London, Hybrid
Employment type: Full time, Permanent
Job Summary: We’re looking for a Lead Architect to provide strategic direction and leadership across NHBC’s enterprise, solution, data, integration, and technology architecture. Reporting to the Chief Data & Architecture Officer, you’ll set architectural standards, ensure coherence across solutions, and align technology investments with NHBC’s business strategy and transformation goals. You’ll lead NHBC’s architecture community, mentoring domain architects, driving secure by design principles, and promoting innovation that’s both ethical and business-focused. As Chair of the Architecture Design Authority, you’ll oversee design assurance, guide major change initiatives, and influence senior stakeholders to keep NHBC’s architecture future‑ready, compliant, and cost‑effective.
Responsibilities
* Own and evolve NHBC’s enterprise architecture strategy, framework, and governance
* Lead the Architecture Design Authority, ensuring high‑quality design assurance
* Align architecture with business strategy, transformation, and regulatory needs
* Champion standards, reuse, and composability across all technology domains
* Mentor domain architects and develop NHBC’s professional architecture communityCollaborate with business, security, and operations teams to embed secure by design principles
* Provide expert input to investment decisions, technology roadmaps, and innovation initiatives
* Ensure architecture governance integrates seamlessly with Agile and DevOps delivery
Qualifications
o Extensive experience leading architecture functions in complex or regulated organisations
o Deep knowledge of enterprise, data, integration, and cloud architecture
o Proven ability to align architecture with strategy and transformation goals
o Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
o Expertise in architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and design assurance practices
o Understanding of governance, risk, and compliance in technology delivery
o Awareness of emerging technologies, AI and automation, and their architectural implications
Benefits
Our benefits package includes:
o 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
o holiday purchase scheme
o enhanced pension scheme (up to 10.5%)
o life assurance
o subsidised private medical insurance
o employee discounts platform
o two days volunteer leave
o enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
+ many more!
We are an inclusive, equal opportunities employer.
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