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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced IT Architecture Team Lead to lead and enhance the maturity of our UK Architecture function. This strategic leadership role focuses on defining architectural direction, ensuring technology decisions align with business priorities, and establishing governance for secure, scalable, and resilient technology solutions. You will collaborate with various teams and suppliers to shape technology roadmaps, support major projects, and build a mature architecture capability that delivers business value.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the architecture vision, principles, standards, and technology guardrails across the UK.
- Translate business strategy into target-state architectures, practical roadmaps, and delivery priorities.
- Lead architecture governance processes, including Technical Design Authority (TDA), design reviews, and exception management.
- Provide pragmatic architecture guidance to programmes, projects, and change initiatives.
- Build strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand operational priorities and influence technology decisions.
- Establish and maintain high-quality architecture documentation, including roadmaps, design documents, decision records, and reference architectures.
- Drive continuous improvement of architecture practices, governance processes, tooling, and standards.
- Manage architecture demand and prioritisation to focus resources on high-value initiatives.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of architecture professionals.
- Embed security, resilience, data, and compliance considerations into technology decisions.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading or significantly shaping an IT Architecture function within a complex organisation.
- Strong experience establishing architecture governance, standards, design authorities, and decision-making frameworks.
- Experience partnering with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate strategy into technology outcomes.
- Successful track record of enabling project delivery through practical and risk-based architectural leadership.
- Experience coaching and developing architects or technical specialists.
- Broad architecture knowledge spanning applications, integration, infrastructure, cloud, data, identity, security, and operational service management.
- Strong understanding of architecture frameworks and governance practices such as TOGAF, ITIL, and COBIT.
- Experience creating and reviewing architecture artefacts including HLDs, LLDs, architecture roadmaps, options assessments, and architecture decision records.
- Knowledge of security, resilience, compliance, and audit requirements within enterprise environments.
- A strategic thinker who can balance long-term vision with operational delivery needs.
- Business-focused and able to understand how technology supports organisational success.
- A strong communicator who can explain complex technical concepts clearly and engagingly.
- A collaborative leader who builds trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
- Comfortable facilitating governance discussions, constructive challenge, and informed decision-making.
- Passionate about quality, continuous improvement, and developing high-performing teams.
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
About the Company
- Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services.
- Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners.
- We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.
- Our Business Services team is a collective of strategic, innovative and forward-thinking professionals who enable the success of our firm.
- Bringing together teams across People & Culture, Marketing & Communications, IT, Operations, Finance, and Quality & Risk Management, we ensure Forvis Mazars has the right technology, tools, processes and support services to deliver exceptional client experiences and drive future growth.
- As part of our IT function, you'll play a critical role in shaping the technology landscape that supports our people, our clients and our business ambitions.
Equal Opportunity
- At Forvis Mazars diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values.
- We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity create better outcomes for our clients.
- We seek to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, inclusive of sex, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, and faith.
- We select candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience and aim to support all our team members to reach their potential.
- At Forvis Mazars, we promote an environment in which you can grow your skills, belong to a team that values your ideas, and make an impact that matters.