Lead Architect

Job Role: Lead Architect

Salary: £114,000 - £136,000 dependant on experience + 20% bonus + car allowance

Working location: Milton Keynes / London, Hybrid

Employment type: Full time, Permanent

Job Summary

We’re looking for a Lead Architect to provide strategic direction and leadership across NHBC’s enterprise, solution, data, integration, and technology architecture. Reporting to the Chief Data & Architecture Officer, you’ll set architectural standards, ensure coherence across solutions, and align technology investments with NHBC’s business strategy and transformation goals. You’ll lead NHBC’s architecture community, mentoring domain architects, driving secure by design principles, and promoting innovation that’s both ethical and business-focused. As Chair of the Architecture Design Authority, you’ll oversee design assurance, guide major change initiatives, and influence senior stakeholders to keep NHBC’s architecture future‑ready, compliant, and cost‑effective.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve NHBC’s enterprise architecture strategy, framework, and governance
• Lead the Architecture Design Authority, ensuring high-quality design assurance
• Align architecture with business strategy, transformation, and regulatory needs
• Champion standards, reuse, and composability across all technology domains
• Mentor domain architects and develop NHBC’s professional architecture community
• Collaborate with business, security, and operations teams to embed secure by design principles
• Provide expert input to investment decisions, technology roadmaps, and innovation initiatives
• Ensure architecture governance integrates seamlessly with Agile and DevOps delivery

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive experience leading architecture functions in complex or regulated organisations
• Deep knowledge of enterprise, data, integration, and cloud architecture
• Proven ability to align architecture with strategy and transformation goals
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Expertise in architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF) and design assurance practices
• Understanding of governance, risk, and compliance in technology delivery
• Awareness of emerging technologies, AI and automation, and their architectural implications

What We Offer

• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Enhanced pension scheme (up to 10.5%)
• Life assurance
• Subsidised private medical insurance
• Employee discounts platform
• Two days volunteer leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
• Many more!

We are a Disability Confident organisation committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. We review applications to ensure candidates meet the essential criteria for the role, assess skills, experience, and potential objectively, and provide support or reasonable adjustments where needed. Candidates who meet the criteria will progress to the next stage.

We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We firmly believe in the right of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, and free from discrimination.

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