Head of Architecture Standards, Patterns & Governance London | Hybrid
Up to £155k + Bonus & Excellent Benefits (Felxible)
Lead the Architecture Practice & Domain Centre of Excellence that underpins all change portfolios—front-to-back platform migrations, hybrid-cloud adoption, data-mesh enablement and legacy retirement. Own the meta-model, reference architectures, and policy-as-code controls to industrialise delivery, cut run-costs and satisfy global regulatory obligations.
Architecture Operating Model – refine and enforce the TOGAF-aligned meta-model, artefact taxonomy and governance cadence across Technology domains.
Policy-as-Code Automation – embed Open Policy Agent (or equivalent) into CI/CD and cloud pipelines to shift compliance “left”; Domain Standards & Reusable Components – curate, publish and measure reuse of cloud landing zones, data-platform blueprints, integration patterns and security baselines.
Architecture Review Authority – chair Enterprise & Solution Design Boards; Practice Leadership – line-manage 5-10 Domain Architects (Cloud, Data, Integration, Workplace, Security) plus a methods/tooling squad; run the global community-of-practice.
Regulatory & Risk Alignment – assure architectures meet FCA / PRA, GDPR and regional regulations; provide board-level traceability on resilience and data-protection controls.
Transformation Acceleration – partner with programme directors to retire legacy estates, adopt event-driven platforms, and enable AI/ML workloads through compliant cloud patterns.
15+ yrs enterprise architecture in global, regulated FS or equivalent complexity.
~ Demonstrable ownership of an EA Operating Model and governance framework at enterprise scale (
~Deep hands-on expertise in two or more domains: hybrid-cloud, data platforms, integration, workplace, security.
~ Proven deployment of policy-driven automation (OPA, Sentinel, Kyverno or similar) integrated with Terraform/Ansible IaC.
~ Executive-level stakeholder management; comfortable defending architecture ROI to CIO/CTO and board committees.
~ AWS/GCP advantageous).
MBA or comparable commercial qualification.