We are seeking an experienced Senior Architectural Technologist to support the delivery of large-scale commercial developments on a contract or freelance basis. This role is ideal for a highly capable designer who can take ownership of complex projects and operate with minimal supervision. The Role You will lead and manage the design and technical delivery of major commercial schemes from concept through to completion. Projects span a range of sectors including Healthcare, Retail, and Industrial & Logistics, offering varied and technically challenging work. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and development of large-scale commercial projects Act as Job Runner, managing schemes across all RIBA stages Coordinate consultants and multidisciplinary teams Produce and review detailed technical information using Revit Ensure compliance with current building regulations and legislation Undertake CDM Principal Designer and Building Safety Act Principal Designer duties where required Liaise directly with clients, contractors, and stakeholders Requirements Master s degree in Architecture from a UK-accredited institution ARB / RIBA Chartered Architect or MCIAT Chartered Architectural Technologist Minimum 8 years commercial experience delivering complex, large-scale projects Strong track record of job running and managing projects independently Advanced proficiency in Revit Experience acting as CDM Principal Designer and Building Safety Act Principal Designer Ability to work autonomously and meet project deadlines Contract Details Contract or freelance engagement Competitive day or hourly rate, dependent on experience Immediate or short-notice start preferred Flexible working arrangements may be available, subject to project needs Apply now or contact (url removed) (phone number removed)
Apr 13, 2026
Contractor
We are seeking an experienced Senior Architectural Technologist to support the delivery of large-scale commercial developments on a contract or freelance basis. This role is ideal for a highly capable designer who can take ownership of complex projects and operate with minimal supervision. The Role You will lead and manage the design and technical delivery of major commercial schemes from concept through to completion. Projects span a range of sectors including Healthcare, Retail, and Industrial & Logistics, offering varied and technically challenging work. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and development of large-scale commercial projects Act as Job Runner, managing schemes across all RIBA stages Coordinate consultants and multidisciplinary teams Produce and review detailed technical information using Revit Ensure compliance with current building regulations and legislation Undertake CDM Principal Designer and Building Safety Act Principal Designer duties where required Liaise directly with clients, contractors, and stakeholders Requirements Master s degree in Architecture from a UK-accredited institution ARB / RIBA Chartered Architect or MCIAT Chartered Architectural Technologist Minimum 8 years commercial experience delivering complex, large-scale projects Strong track record of job running and managing projects independently Advanced proficiency in Revit Experience acting as CDM Principal Designer and Building Safety Act Principal Designer Ability to work autonomously and meet project deadlines Contract Details Contract or freelance engagement Competitive day or hourly rate, dependent on experience Immediate or short-notice start preferred Flexible working arrangements may be available, subject to project needs Apply now or contact (url removed) (phone number removed)
Are you a skilled and experienced Architectural Technician or Senior Technologist with strong skills Are you looking for a Senior Architectural Technician or Senior Technologist role where you can lead a small team, interact with clients and deliver projects Are you looking for a role with a clear career path and defined route to promotion Kingscroft are recruiting for a Senior Architectural Technician to work for a Multi-Disciplined practice that offers Surveying, Project Management and Architecture to a wide variety of retail, commercial, industrial and residential clients. In this role you will be responsible for a small team, delivering refit and development projects in the retail, commercial or industrial sectors. In this exciting role the right candidate will have a clear path to become an Associate Director. Supported by the Directors you will have responsibilities for organising a small team and delivering client projects from initial survey, design and CAD work through to delivery. As the ideal candidate you will be a skilled Architectural Technician with skills in AutoCAD and REVIT and experience of working in a client facing role on retail or commercially orientated projects. Your role will involve: Site Survey and Existing Record: Detailed floor and roof plans Internal and external elevations, sections and sectional elevations Reflective ceilings plans and services. Production of existing layout drawings, elevations, sections in plan and model formats from existing drawing and survey notes Drawing Preparation and Control: Production of feasibility and scheme design drawings Production of detailed technical proposal drawings, models and visuals using AutoCAD, Sketch-Up and other similar packages Responsible for the quality of drawing production Client Liaison Quality Assurance of Drawing/Model production Other Duties Pro-active liaison with Clients and their representatives Liaison with internal team Production and management of project programs and management of budget and expenditure reports Preparation of project documentation, including specifications and precontract documents Carry out Principal Designer duties Preparation and submission of statutory approvals, dealing with enquiries and obtaining consents Managing office based and site projects Managing a team of 3-4 people Any other duties or requirements of the company or clients This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing development of the business while delivering projects with some really great clients. Please apply today for a confidential discussion on the role, business and opportunity. By applying to this role, you will register as a candidate with Kingscroft Professional Resources. Our Privacy Policy explains how we will use your information.
Apr 11, 2026
Full time
Are you a skilled and experienced Architectural Technician or Senior Technologist with strong skills Are you looking for a Senior Architectural Technician or Senior Technologist role where you can lead a small team, interact with clients and deliver projects Are you looking for a role with a clear career path and defined route to promotion Kingscroft are recruiting for a Senior Architectural Technician to work for a Multi-Disciplined practice that offers Surveying, Project Management and Architecture to a wide variety of retail, commercial, industrial and residential clients. In this role you will be responsible for a small team, delivering refit and development projects in the retail, commercial or industrial sectors. In this exciting role the right candidate will have a clear path to become an Associate Director. Supported by the Directors you will have responsibilities for organising a small team and delivering client projects from initial survey, design and CAD work through to delivery. As the ideal candidate you will be a skilled Architectural Technician with skills in AutoCAD and REVIT and experience of working in a client facing role on retail or commercially orientated projects. Your role will involve: Site Survey and Existing Record: Detailed floor and roof plans Internal and external elevations, sections and sectional elevations Reflective ceilings plans and services. Production of existing layout drawings, elevations, sections in plan and model formats from existing drawing and survey notes Drawing Preparation and Control: Production of feasibility and scheme design drawings Production of detailed technical proposal drawings, models and visuals using AutoCAD, Sketch-Up and other similar packages Responsible for the quality of drawing production Client Liaison Quality Assurance of Drawing/Model production Other Duties Pro-active liaison with Clients and their representatives Liaison with internal team Production and management of project programs and management of budget and expenditure reports Preparation of project documentation, including specifications and precontract documents Carry out Principal Designer duties Preparation and submission of statutory approvals, dealing with enquiries and obtaining consents Managing office based and site projects Managing a team of 3-4 people Any other duties or requirements of the company or clients This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing development of the business while delivering projects with some really great clients. Please apply today for a confidential discussion on the role, business and opportunity. By applying to this role, you will register as a candidate with Kingscroft Professional Resources. Our Privacy Policy explains how we will use your information.
The BBC has engaged an executive search firm, iO, to manage the selection process for this role. Please be aware that your application will be managed by iO, who will have access to your CV and personal details for the purpose of this vacancy only. Should you want any further information about the role, or to speak with someone, please contact Elise Zajac of iO at . JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: F CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-Time DEPARTMENT: Product Engineering LOCATION: Flexible (any major UK BBC hub) with hybrid working PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £150,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE The BBC's Product Engineering function is looking to appoint two Heads of Architecture to join BBC Product Group's architecture leadership team. The architecture team's mission is to drive the technical designs and approaches that allow the BBC's audience-facing digital products to rapidly grow and innovate in an efficient and scalable way. The role advertised here is the Head of Architecture focused on Enablement. A second vacancy for a Head of Architecture focused on Data Platform and Account and Identity is also being advertised. Please apply individually for the role(s) which interest you. WHY JOIN THE TEAM This is a chance to work at scale, to tackle complex architectural challenges, and to influence the journey from traditional broadcasting to a fully connected, on demand future. You'll join a supportive community of architects - working across disciplines to bring clarity, coherence, and innovation to everything we do. YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT As Head of Architecture, you will define and support the delivery of the technical architecture in your area of responsibility. This includes both line management and setting overall strategy in a way that enables all engineering teams to work at scale and high efficiency. This is a highly collaborative role. You will work closely with a wide range of engineering, product, and business leaders, and with multidisciplinary teams across the organisation. You will use your communication and influencing skills to explain how your technical strategy contributes to wider business objectives, backed up by a coherent approach for delivering the strategy. In this role you will be one of the most senior technologists at the BBC. You will play a critical role in the organisation's digital transformation. Do you have the passion and drive to help shape the BBC's digital future? Your key day to day responsibilities will include: Being part of the Product Group Engineering Leadership team, helping to drive the overall technology strategy with your peers. Being part of one or multiple cross discipline leadership teams, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Delivery, Data, UX, and other disciplines to develop successful products that grow the BBC's online reach. Line managing, coaching and developing a team of talented architects, as well as supporting a wide range of engineering and product teams. Owning the technology landscape within your area, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement, and taking accountability for ensuring solutions are performant and sustainable. Playing a critical role in defining how to enable our platform strategy and engineering efficiency through capabilities that apply at all levels of our technical stack. Area of Responsibility In this role you will join three other Heads of Architecture to collectively own the architecture strategy and technical direction of the BBC's online products. Together this architecture leadership - which is part of the engineering leadership - must ensure architectural alignment across all teams. Within this, your initial focus will be the 'Enablement' area, which provides the tools and services to ensure the BBC creates dependable and secure digital solutions in an efficient and manageable way. As Head of Architecture for Enablement, your responsibilities will include: Creating platforms and services that allow over 1000 engineers to safely develop on the cloud in a collaborative and efficient way. This includes tools to develop a common business layer, and the means to dependable scale to handle high levels of network traffic. Architectural solutions for ensuring a robust operational approach, such as the ability to monitor and observe the whole technical estate. Leading architectural approaches for partnerships and outsourced solutions. Ensuring we follow the best engineering and architectural practices, with the right tools and techniques for everyone to understand and deliver the architecture strategy. As mentioned above, it is likely that your areas of focus will change over time, for example to support new programmes of work. Driving the strategic adoption of AI across the SDLC and wider architecture, establishing the platforms, tooling, and guardrails that enable teams to safely unlock productivity gains and new product capabilities. You will be a line manager of 1 2 architects. This will likely grow over time. YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE The ideal candidate will evidence the following skills and experience: Significant experience as a technical architect (or similar role), including defining and delivering a technical vision and strategy, and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures. Proven digital leader, with gravitas to work effectively with senior colleagues as well as being able to inspire, motivate and drive change through a large engineering team. Ability to present to and influence C Level colleagues, creating great interpersonal relationships across the organisation. A team player who can coach, develop and mentor others in our engineering community, and provide leadership amongst your peers. Significant experience leading in a software development environment, including agile delivery at scale, and with an informed view of architectural and engineering best practice. Knowledge of a broad range of technology concepts such as cloud computing (e.g. AWS), micro service architectures, event driven architectures and data processing at scale. You will work with a range of specialist teams which may include machine learning, APIs and networking, and client applications (on web, mobile and TV). Approaches to standardisation and governance, such as to manage efficiency, security and legal compliance, in a way that balances standardisation with autonomy at scale. Strong organisational skills that enable you to work across multiple specialist teams to align architecture goals and drive change and adoption. Continued professional development both as a leader and technologist, including a deep understanding of industry trends (e.g. AI). You will be expected to proactively identify and leverage these trends to drive innovation. This includes staying ahead of emerging technologies, assessing their potential impact, and integrating relevant advancements into our architecture strategy to ensure we remain at the forefront of digital transformation. Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation's interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short term actions with long term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future. If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. Information at a Glance This is your BBC At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain. Find out more about the BBC. Life at BBC Benefits . click apply for full job details
Apr 06, 2026
Full time
The BBC has engaged an executive search firm, iO, to manage the selection process for this role. Please be aware that your application will be managed by iO, who will have access to your CV and personal details for the purpose of this vacancy only. Should you want any further information about the role, or to speak with someone, please contact Elise Zajac of iO at . JOB DETAILS JOB BAND: F CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-Time DEPARTMENT: Product Engineering LOCATION: Flexible (any major UK BBC hub) with hybrid working PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £150,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. PURPOSE OF THE ROLE The BBC's Product Engineering function is looking to appoint two Heads of Architecture to join BBC Product Group's architecture leadership team. The architecture team's mission is to drive the technical designs and approaches that allow the BBC's audience-facing digital products to rapidly grow and innovate in an efficient and scalable way. The role advertised here is the Head of Architecture focused on Enablement. A second vacancy for a Head of Architecture focused on Data Platform and Account and Identity is also being advertised. Please apply individually for the role(s) which interest you. WHY JOIN THE TEAM This is a chance to work at scale, to tackle complex architectural challenges, and to influence the journey from traditional broadcasting to a fully connected, on demand future. You'll join a supportive community of architects - working across disciplines to bring clarity, coherence, and innovation to everything we do. YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT As Head of Architecture, you will define and support the delivery of the technical architecture in your area of responsibility. This includes both line management and setting overall strategy in a way that enables all engineering teams to work at scale and high efficiency. This is a highly collaborative role. You will work closely with a wide range of engineering, product, and business leaders, and with multidisciplinary teams across the organisation. You will use your communication and influencing skills to explain how your technical strategy contributes to wider business objectives, backed up by a coherent approach for delivering the strategy. In this role you will be one of the most senior technologists at the BBC. You will play a critical role in the organisation's digital transformation. Do you have the passion and drive to help shape the BBC's digital future? Your key day to day responsibilities will include: Being part of the Product Group Engineering Leadership team, helping to drive the overall technology strategy with your peers. Being part of one or multiple cross discipline leadership teams, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Delivery, Data, UX, and other disciplines to develop successful products that grow the BBC's online reach. Line managing, coaching and developing a team of talented architects, as well as supporting a wide range of engineering and product teams. Owning the technology landscape within your area, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement, and taking accountability for ensuring solutions are performant and sustainable. Playing a critical role in defining how to enable our platform strategy and engineering efficiency through capabilities that apply at all levels of our technical stack. Area of Responsibility In this role you will join three other Heads of Architecture to collectively own the architecture strategy and technical direction of the BBC's online products. Together this architecture leadership - which is part of the engineering leadership - must ensure architectural alignment across all teams. Within this, your initial focus will be the 'Enablement' area, which provides the tools and services to ensure the BBC creates dependable and secure digital solutions in an efficient and manageable way. As Head of Architecture for Enablement, your responsibilities will include: Creating platforms and services that allow over 1000 engineers to safely develop on the cloud in a collaborative and efficient way. This includes tools to develop a common business layer, and the means to dependable scale to handle high levels of network traffic. Architectural solutions for ensuring a robust operational approach, such as the ability to monitor and observe the whole technical estate. Leading architectural approaches for partnerships and outsourced solutions. Ensuring we follow the best engineering and architectural practices, with the right tools and techniques for everyone to understand and deliver the architecture strategy. As mentioned above, it is likely that your areas of focus will change over time, for example to support new programmes of work. Driving the strategic adoption of AI across the SDLC and wider architecture, establishing the platforms, tooling, and guardrails that enable teams to safely unlock productivity gains and new product capabilities. You will be a line manager of 1 2 architects. This will likely grow over time. YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE The ideal candidate will evidence the following skills and experience: Significant experience as a technical architect (or similar role), including defining and delivering a technical vision and strategy, and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures. Proven digital leader, with gravitas to work effectively with senior colleagues as well as being able to inspire, motivate and drive change through a large engineering team. Ability to present to and influence C Level colleagues, creating great interpersonal relationships across the organisation. A team player who can coach, develop and mentor others in our engineering community, and provide leadership amongst your peers. Significant experience leading in a software development environment, including agile delivery at scale, and with an informed view of architectural and engineering best practice. Knowledge of a broad range of technology concepts such as cloud computing (e.g. AWS), micro service architectures, event driven architectures and data processing at scale. You will work with a range of specialist teams which may include machine learning, APIs and networking, and client applications (on web, mobile and TV). Approaches to standardisation and governance, such as to manage efficiency, security and legal compliance, in a way that balances standardisation with autonomy at scale. Strong organisational skills that enable you to work across multiple specialist teams to align architecture goals and drive change and adoption. Continued professional development both as a leader and technologist, including a deep understanding of industry trends (e.g. AI). You will be expected to proactively identify and leverage these trends to drive innovation. This includes staying ahead of emerging technologies, assessing their potential impact, and integrating relevant advancements into our architecture strategy to ensure we remain at the forefront of digital transformation. Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation's interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short term actions with long term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future. If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk. Information at a Glance This is your BBC At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain. Find out more about the BBC. Life at BBC Benefits . click apply for full job details
Head of Architecture (Data Platform and Account and Identity) Job Details Job Band: F Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time Department: Product Engineering Location: Flexible (any major UK BBC hub) with hybrid working Proposed Salary Range: up to £150,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Purpose of the Role The BBC's Product Engineering function is looking to appoint two Heads of Architecture to join BBC Product Group's architecture leadership team. The architecture team's mission is to drive the technical designs and approaches that allow the BBC's audience facing digital products to rapidly grow and innovate in an efficient and scalable way. The role advertised here is the Head of Architecture focused on Data Platform and Account and Identity. A second vacancy for a Head of Architecture focused on Enablement is also being advertised. Please apply individually for the role(s) which interest you. Why Join the Team This is a chance to work at scale, to tackle complex architectural challenges, and to influence the journey from traditional broadcasting to a fully connected, on demand future. You'll join a supportive community of architects - working across disciplines to bring clarity, coherence, and innovation to everything we do. Your Key Responsibilities and Impact As Head of Architecture, you will define and support the delivery of the technical architecture in your area of responsibility. This includes both line management and setting overall strategy in a way that enables all engineering teams to work at scale and high efficiency. This is a highly collaborative role. You will work closely with a wide range of engineering, product, and business leaders, and with multi disciplinary teams across the organisation. You will use your communication and influencing skills to explain how your technical strategy contributes to wider business objectives, backed up by a coherent approach for delivering the strategy. In this role you will be one of the most senior technologists at the BBC. You will play a critical role in the organisation's digital transformation. Your key day to day responsibilities will include: Being part of the Product Group Engineering Leadership team, helping to drive the overall technology strategy with your peers. Being part of one or multiple cross discipline leadership teams, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Delivery, Data, UX, and other disciplines to develop successful products that grow the BBC's online reach. Line managing, coaching and developing a team of talented architects, as well as supporting a wide range of engineering and product teams. Owning the technology landscape within your area, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement, and taking accountability for ensuring solutions are performant and sustainable. Playing a critical role in defining how to enable our platform strategy and engineering efficiency through capabilities that apply at all levels of our technical stack. Area of Responsibility In this role you will join three other Heads of Architecture to collectively own the architecture strategy and technical direction of the BBC's online products. Together this architecture leadership - which is part of the engineering leadership - must ensure architectural alignment across all teams. Within this role, your focus will be on the BBC's Data Platform and Account & Identity capabilities, which underpin both digital and broadcast experiences at national and global scale. These platforms enable audience insight, personalisation, operational decision making and regulatory compliance, forming a critical part of the BBC's future technology landscape. As Head of Architecture for Data Platform & Account & Identity, your responsibilities will include: Creating and evolving platform capabilities that support billions of audience events per day, enabling high availability, secure and scalable systems with near zero tolerance for failure. This includes data ingestion, processing, and analytics platforms, alongside identity and authentication services used by millions of users globally. Leading the transition from vertically aligned systems to domain oriented, platform based architectures. This includes embedding data product thinking, clear ownership models, discoverability and governance, and supporting the maturity of operating models across platform and product teams. Defining and governing architectural standards across data, AI/ML and identity ecosystems. This includes ensuring coherence across real time and batch processing, machine learning enablement platforms, and customer identity services, while maintaining regulatory compliance, managing risk, and ensuring long term technical sustainability. Establishing architectural approaches that enable responsible AI and ML at scale, balancing innovation and experimentation with appropriate governance and safety. Providing architectural leadership for major technology decisions, including platform strategy, vendor selection and investment prioritisation, with clear accountability for enterprise level outcomes and trade offs. Leading, coaching and developing a senior architecture team, and contributing to the wider engineering and product leadership community to strengthen architectural practices, culture and capability across the organisation. As with similar leadership roles, your areas of focus are likely to evolve over time to support new programmes of work and organisational priorities. Your Skills and Experience The ideal candidate will evidence the following skills and experience: Significant experience as a technical architect (or similar role), including defining and delivering a technical vision and strategy, and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures. Proven digital leader, with gravitas to work effectively with senior colleagues as well as being able to inspire, motivate and drive change through a large engineering team. Ability to present to and influence C Level colleagues, creating great interpersonal relationships across the organisation. A team player who can coach, develop and mentor others in our engineering community, and provide leadership amongst your peers. Significant experience leading in a software development environment, including agile delivery at scale, and with an informed view of architectural and engineering best practice. Knowledge of a broad range of technology concepts such as cloud computing (e.g. AWS), micro service architectures, event driven architectures and data processing at scale. Approaches to standardisation and governance, such as to manage efficiency, security and legal compliance, in a way that balances standardisation with autonomy at scale. Strong organisational skills that enable you to work across multiple specialist teams to align architecture goals and drive change and adoption. Continued professional development both as a leader and technologist, including a deep understanding of industry trends (e.g. AI). You will be expected to proactively identify and leverage these trends to drive innovation. This includes staying ahead of emerging technologies, assessing their potential impact, and integrating relevant advancements into our architecture strategy to ensure we remain at the forefront of digital transformation. Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation's interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short term actions with long term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future. If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. For any general queries, please contact: Redeployment The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of the other applicants . click apply for full job details
Apr 05, 2026
Full time
Head of Architecture (Data Platform and Account and Identity) Job Details Job Band: F Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time Department: Product Engineering Location: Flexible (any major UK BBC hub) with hybrid working Proposed Salary Range: up to £150,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage. Purpose of the Role The BBC's Product Engineering function is looking to appoint two Heads of Architecture to join BBC Product Group's architecture leadership team. The architecture team's mission is to drive the technical designs and approaches that allow the BBC's audience facing digital products to rapidly grow and innovate in an efficient and scalable way. The role advertised here is the Head of Architecture focused on Data Platform and Account and Identity. A second vacancy for a Head of Architecture focused on Enablement is also being advertised. Please apply individually for the role(s) which interest you. Why Join the Team This is a chance to work at scale, to tackle complex architectural challenges, and to influence the journey from traditional broadcasting to a fully connected, on demand future. You'll join a supportive community of architects - working across disciplines to bring clarity, coherence, and innovation to everything we do. Your Key Responsibilities and Impact As Head of Architecture, you will define and support the delivery of the technical architecture in your area of responsibility. This includes both line management and setting overall strategy in a way that enables all engineering teams to work at scale and high efficiency. This is a highly collaborative role. You will work closely with a wide range of engineering, product, and business leaders, and with multi disciplinary teams across the organisation. You will use your communication and influencing skills to explain how your technical strategy contributes to wider business objectives, backed up by a coherent approach for delivering the strategy. In this role you will be one of the most senior technologists at the BBC. You will play a critical role in the organisation's digital transformation. Your key day to day responsibilities will include: Being part of the Product Group Engineering Leadership team, helping to drive the overall technology strategy with your peers. Being part of one or multiple cross discipline leadership teams, collaborating with Engineering, Product, Delivery, Data, UX, and other disciplines to develop successful products that grow the BBC's online reach. Line managing, coaching and developing a team of talented architects, as well as supporting a wide range of engineering and product teams. Owning the technology landscape within your area, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement, and taking accountability for ensuring solutions are performant and sustainable. Playing a critical role in defining how to enable our platform strategy and engineering efficiency through capabilities that apply at all levels of our technical stack. Area of Responsibility In this role you will join three other Heads of Architecture to collectively own the architecture strategy and technical direction of the BBC's online products. Together this architecture leadership - which is part of the engineering leadership - must ensure architectural alignment across all teams. Within this role, your focus will be on the BBC's Data Platform and Account & Identity capabilities, which underpin both digital and broadcast experiences at national and global scale. These platforms enable audience insight, personalisation, operational decision making and regulatory compliance, forming a critical part of the BBC's future technology landscape. As Head of Architecture for Data Platform & Account & Identity, your responsibilities will include: Creating and evolving platform capabilities that support billions of audience events per day, enabling high availability, secure and scalable systems with near zero tolerance for failure. This includes data ingestion, processing, and analytics platforms, alongside identity and authentication services used by millions of users globally. Leading the transition from vertically aligned systems to domain oriented, platform based architectures. This includes embedding data product thinking, clear ownership models, discoverability and governance, and supporting the maturity of operating models across platform and product teams. Defining and governing architectural standards across data, AI/ML and identity ecosystems. This includes ensuring coherence across real time and batch processing, machine learning enablement platforms, and customer identity services, while maintaining regulatory compliance, managing risk, and ensuring long term technical sustainability. Establishing architectural approaches that enable responsible AI and ML at scale, balancing innovation and experimentation with appropriate governance and safety. Providing architectural leadership for major technology decisions, including platform strategy, vendor selection and investment prioritisation, with clear accountability for enterprise level outcomes and trade offs. Leading, coaching and developing a senior architecture team, and contributing to the wider engineering and product leadership community to strengthen architectural practices, culture and capability across the organisation. As with similar leadership roles, your areas of focus are likely to evolve over time to support new programmes of work and organisational priorities. Your Skills and Experience The ideal candidate will evidence the following skills and experience: Significant experience as a technical architect (or similar role), including defining and delivering a technical vision and strategy, and designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable architectures. Proven digital leader, with gravitas to work effectively with senior colleagues as well as being able to inspire, motivate and drive change through a large engineering team. Ability to present to and influence C Level colleagues, creating great interpersonal relationships across the organisation. A team player who can coach, develop and mentor others in our engineering community, and provide leadership amongst your peers. Significant experience leading in a software development environment, including agile delivery at scale, and with an informed view of architectural and engineering best practice. Knowledge of a broad range of technology concepts such as cloud computing (e.g. AWS), micro service architectures, event driven architectures and data processing at scale. Approaches to standardisation and governance, such as to manage efficiency, security and legal compliance, in a way that balances standardisation with autonomy at scale. Strong organisational skills that enable you to work across multiple specialist teams to align architecture goals and drive change and adoption. Continued professional development both as a leader and technologist, including a deep understanding of industry trends (e.g. AI). You will be expected to proactively identify and leverage these trends to drive innovation. This includes staying ahead of emerging technologies, assessing their potential impact, and integrating relevant advancements into our architecture strategy to ensure we remain at the forefront of digital transformation. Being a leader at the BBC means putting the organisation's interest, goals and values first, ahead of individual team or function needs. The characteristics of an enterprise leader are: Focuses on outcomes over activity, adapts quickly, and simplifies complexity. They balance short term actions with long term impact, take full accountability for actions and decision making, and prioritise capability development to create teams fit for the future. If you can bring some of these skills and experiences, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. Disclaimer This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved. Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory. Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer. For any general queries, please contact: Redeployment The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of the other applicants . click apply for full job details
Managing Consultant - Public Services - Solution Architecture We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Why consider joining our Public Services community as a Solution Architecture Managing Consultant? Join a team where you're trusted to shape your own path, manage your time, and influence real change for our clients and communities. Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based,inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. Be part of a team actively shaping UK Public Servicesand tackling issues that impact our everyday lives Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring What you can expect Be part of our management team, helping shape and launch new service propositions while driving strategic business growth. Lead business development initiatives -building trusted client relationships, owning outcomes, and delivering innovative, high-impact solutions. Collaborate with FTSE 100 clients as a respected advisor, guiding them through complex challenges with clarity and creativity. Support your team's growth through coaching, knowledge-sharing, and creating opportunities for them to thrive. Consulting experience, leading Architecture and development teams through end-to-end solutions for complex client challenges in the UK Public Services sector. Proven record of contributing to business development and working to sales targets forlarge UK central government contracts (£1m+ contract value size). You have an established network of senior stakeholders inthe sector, with a proven ability to nurture and expand relationships Demonstrated ability to shape and communicate architectural strategies across multiple domains (application, business, integration) You've worked on the Application side of the tech stack, then moved into Solution architecture. Strong familiarity with architecture frameworks and modelling tools (e.g. UML, ArchiMate) Skilled at building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders You've managed teams of developers and technical colleagues While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, you can expect to work with the following technologies to ensure scalable, high-performance applications: Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce Architecture & Delivery: Microservices, packaged solutions, cloud/on-premise models, agile delivery, digital transformation Tools & Frameworks: IoT, cloud-native architectures, UML, ArchiMate Additional information Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role. Introductory call with one of our senior Talent Acquisition partners to explore your background, the opportunity and PA. Round 1: 3x competency interviews, allowing you to meet different members of PA. Final Round : Business plan presentation with PA leaders - you will be given guidance and time to prepare in advance. Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days Generous company pension scheme Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives Annual performance-based bonus PA share ownership Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) We're committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. Hybrid Working- Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on client site. Adjustments or accommodations- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
Apr 04, 2026
Full time
Managing Consultant - Public Services - Solution Architecture We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. Why consider joining our Public Services community as a Solution Architecture Managing Consultant? Join a team where you're trusted to shape your own path, manage your time, and influence real change for our clients and communities. Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based,inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. Be part of a team actively shaping UK Public Servicesand tackling issues that impact our everyday lives Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring What you can expect Be part of our management team, helping shape and launch new service propositions while driving strategic business growth. Lead business development initiatives -building trusted client relationships, owning outcomes, and delivering innovative, high-impact solutions. Collaborate with FTSE 100 clients as a respected advisor, guiding them through complex challenges with clarity and creativity. Support your team's growth through coaching, knowledge-sharing, and creating opportunities for them to thrive. Consulting experience, leading Architecture and development teams through end-to-end solutions for complex client challenges in the UK Public Services sector. Proven record of contributing to business development and working to sales targets forlarge UK central government contracts (£1m+ contract value size). You have an established network of senior stakeholders inthe sector, with a proven ability to nurture and expand relationships Demonstrated ability to shape and communicate architectural strategies across multiple domains (application, business, integration) You've worked on the Application side of the tech stack, then moved into Solution architecture. Strong familiarity with architecture frameworks and modelling tools (e.g. UML, ArchiMate) Skilled at building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders You've managed teams of developers and technical colleagues While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, you can expect to work with the following technologies to ensure scalable, high-performance applications: Cloud & Platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce Architecture & Delivery: Microservices, packaged solutions, cloud/on-premise models, agile delivery, digital transformation Tools & Frameworks: IoT, cloud-native architectures, UML, ArchiMate Additional information Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role. Introductory call with one of our senior Talent Acquisition partners to explore your background, the opportunity and PA. Round 1: 3x competency interviews, allowing you to meet different members of PA. Final Round : Business plan presentation with PA leaders - you will be given guidance and time to prepare in advance. Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days Generous company pension scheme Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives Annual performance-based bonus PA share ownership Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) We're committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. Hybrid Working- Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on client site. Adjustments or accommodations- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
