Description

The Role

As Lead Software Architect, you will be accountable for owning the software
architecture and engineering delivery across a product or platform vertical
within the group. You will provide technical leadership across the full
engineering lifecycle, including backend and frontend architecture,
infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and operational readiness. This is a
fantastic opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping the technical
foundations of globally used digital products, ensuring they remain scalable,
secure and fit for the future.

Key Responsibilities

You will work closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners and UX colleagues to
ensure requirements are technically feasible, well specified and correctly
decomposed, acting as the key technical bridge between solution intent and
engineering execution.

Owning the software architecture for an assigned product or platform area, ensuring
solutions support both current delivery and future scalability.

Driving engineering delivery from planning through to production, translating solution
designs into implementable engineering plans with clear scope, dependencies and
sequencing.

Providing technical leadership and direction to distributed teams, including.

Defining and upholding technical standards, patterns and engineering conventions.

Leading the adoption of AI‑assisted software development practices and tooling across
engineering teams.

Owning operational readiness, including infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring
and developer experience.

Evaluating technology and tooling choices, including build‑vs‑buy decisions, with clear
and defensible rationale.

Please send your resume/CV