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About the Role
Establish and run a brand-new architecture function from scratch, bringing vital grip and pragmatic governance to the technology estate. Lead enterprise, solution, and technical architecture, ensuring digital decisions are coherent, secure, and aligned with strategic goals. Balance strategic leadership with practical design assurance, chairing the Technical Design Authority and providing technical oversight to the Strategic Architecture Board. Provide senior professional advice on digital, data, cyber security, and emerging technologies like AI and automation. Lead and develop a team of five, building technical capability and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Support legacy system modernization and cloud migration to ensure major technology investments are scalable, cost-effective, and compliant with security, data protection, and information governance requirements.
Responsibilities
- Establish and run a brand-new architecture function from scratch.
- Bring vital grip and pragmatic governance to the technology estate.
- Lead the council’s enterprise, solution and technical architecture.
- Ensure all digital decisions are coherent, secure and fully aligned with strategic goals.
- Balance strategic leadership with practical design assurance.
- Chair the Technical Design Authority.
- Provide technical oversight to the Strategic Architecture Board.
- Provide senior professional advice to service leaders on digital, data, cyber security and emerging technologies like AI and automation.
- Lead and develop a team of five.
- Build technical capability.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
- Support legacy system modernisation.
- Support cloud migration.
- Ensure major technology investments are scalable, cost-effective and strictly compliant with security, data protection and information governance requirements.
Requirements
- Proven experience of leading enterprise, solution or technical architecture within a large or complex organisation.
- Hold a professional certification or formal training in TOGAF, ITIL or ISO 27001, or possess equivalent deep technical experience.
- Navigating complex landscapes is second nature.
- Strong track record of designing and governing end-to-end technology solutions across cloud services, applications and data integration.
- Deep understanding of secure-by-design principles.
- Deep understanding of zero-trust models.
- Deep understanding of how secure-by-design principles and zero-trust models apply across modern technology estates.
- Ability to analyse complex technical issues.
- Ability to identify risks.
- Ability to provide clear, evidence-based recommendations using accessible language for non-technical audiences.
- User-centred mindset.
- Ready to coach, mentor and develop your team.
- Ensure every architectural decision supports accessible, inclusive and efficient services for the borough.
Skills
- Enterprise architecture
- Solution architecture
- Technical architecture
- Cloud services
- Data integration
- Secure-by-design principles
- Zero-trust models
- AI
- Automation
- Cyber security
- Digital
- Data
- TOGAF
- ITIL
- ISO 27001
Location
- Kensington and Chelsea
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Senior
Education Level
- Professional certification or formal training in TOGAF, ITIL or ISO 27001, or equivalent deep technical experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful opportunities for professional growth
- Career development
- Training
About the Company
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places.
- Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.
- As a competent and caring Council, we take pride in our work every day, ensuring our services are delivered with care and competence.
- We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.
- Following a significant cyber-attack in November 2025, we are actively strengthening our approach to effective, efficient and resident-focused ICT delivery.
- The architecture team needs to get stuck in to rebuild trust and technical maturity, whether working in the office, from home or out in the field.
- Untangling legacy systems and embedding new governance will directly protect our services.
- Complex challenges become direct opportunities to innovate, build capabilities and ensure a safer borough.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.