What you’ll be doing
1. Leading the architecture strategy for Mobile products, aligning roadmaps with business goals and customer needs.
2. Guiding technical feasibility and shaping of features, ensuring alignment with strategic direction and delivery timelines.
3. Championing engineering excellence by managing technical debt and embedding quality assurance across teams.
4. Ensuring solutions meet key non-functional requirements — including performance, security, cost-efficiency, and modernisation.
5. Designing reusable patterns and scalable solution architectures that support consistent, customer-focused delivery.Collaborating with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to drive alignment and influence decision-making.
6. Advising on technology resource planning and contributing to budget discussions to support architectural progress.
7. Acting as a subject matter expert, supporting teams and senior leaders on complex architectural challenges.
8. Promoting empathy-driven design to ensure our products deliver real value to customers.
The skills you’ll need
9. Architecture expertise: Proven experience in a senior architecture role, ideally within the mobile telecoms domain.
10. Strong understanding of architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and TMF industry standards.
11. Ability to create and govern reusable patterns and maintain business and technical capabilities aligned to strategic goals.
12. Leadership & influence: Commercial background in guiding architects and engineers, making strategic decisions even in ambiguity.
13. Strategic thinking & planning : Experience shaping end-to-end roadmaps over 6–18 month horizons, balancing transformation, cost, and technical maturity.
14. Ability to define tactical work that aligns with long-term strategic vision.
15. Agile delivery mindset: Hands-on experience with Agile planning and delivery, ideally within a SAFe framework.
16. Stakeholder engagement: Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the organisation.
Our leadership standards
Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.
Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.
Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.
Benefits
17. An annual bonus of up to 15% (company & personal performance dependent)
18. Car cash allowance of £5500
19. Private healthcare for you and your family
20. BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
21. Life Assurance
22. Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
23. 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans
24. BT TV, including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
25. Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave
26. 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
27. Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community
28. Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV