Architecture Practice Lead

Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  

Required Professional Experience

Architectural practice & operating model knowledge

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture practices, roles, and engagement models across solution, domain, and enterprise levels
  
• Experience embedding architecture into governance, portfolio management, and delivery lifecycles
  
• Understanding of how architectural standards, technical debt, and risk management operate in complex organizations
  
• Working knowledge of architecture repositories, artefacts, and methods sufficient to enable consistent practice adoption and quality outcomes
  

Stakeholder leadership & communication

• Strong experience engaging senior business and technology leaders on architecture outcomes, priorities, and performance
  
• Ability to translate architectural work into clear business value, risks, and maturity progress for executives
  
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority across federated teams and functions
  
• Experience managing competing priorities, expectations, and organizational change
  

People & practice leadership experience

• Experience leading or enabling professional teams in a capability or practice model
  
• Experience coaching, developing, and performance-managing senior technical professionals
  
• Experience building consistent ways of working, standards adoption, and continuous improvement
  

Operational & governance experience

• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams, initiatives, and governance forums
  
• Experience tracking practice performance, capacity, and outcomes to support leadership decision-making
  
• Experience improving operational maturity of professional services or technical practices
  

Practice leadership & capability development

• Lead, develop, and support architects across the practice (Solution, Lead, and Enterprise Architects)
  
• Build a cohesive, high-performing architecture practice with clear roles, expectations, and ways of working
  
• Drive capability development, mentoring, and skills uplift aligned to organizational needs
  
• Plan and manage architecture practice capacity to balance demand, priorities, and available resources across the portfolio
  
• Foster a culture of professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement
  

Operational enablement of architecture & technical debt

• Enable consistent identification, documentation, and visibility of architectural risks and technical debt
  
• Support the Principal Architect in maintaining visibility of the technical debt baseline and agreed remediation actions
  
• Embed architecture engagement into governance, service lifecycle, and planning processes
  
• Coordinate inputs and follow-through across architects, delivery teams, and governance forums
  

Integration, governance & reporting

• Integrate the architecture practice into portfolio, demand, and governance forums
  
• Ensure architecture engagement is predictable, timely, and clearly understood across the organization
  
• Enable effective use and adoption of architecture tools, repositories, and artefacts to support decision-making, governance, and practice maturity
  
• Ensure architecture information remains accessible, accurate, and relevant for stakeholders and leadership
  
• Provide visibility of architecture practice health, capacity, and effectiveness to senior stakeholders
  
• Continuously refine architecture ways of working based on feedback and outcomes