Hybrid, London (3 days in office, South London)
We’re partnered with one of the UK’s leading fitness brands on a newly created Lead Architect hire, as they build out an Architecture team function internally
This isn’t a “maintain the estate” architecture role. They’re in the middle of a major technology transformation across customer platforms, memberships, integrations and mobile experience, all within a business serving close to 1 million active users across 250+ physical locations nationwide
The scale is genuinely interesting:
- Real-time integrations with third-party platforms and connected devices
- Operational telemetry and monitoring systems
- Future-facing work around AI
Reporting directly to the CTO, you will operate strategically at an enterprise level directly managing a team of 3-5 other Architects, whilst still being technically credible and hands-on
You’d be responsible for shaping the architectural blueprint across the business, defining governance, tooling, standards and long-term target state architecture, whilst also leading a team of Architects, Analysts and Solution Designers
They want someone capable of influencing both executive-level technology direction and the reality of engineering delivery teams
What they’re looking for:
- Strong Lead / Enterprise Architecture background within scaled digital businesses
- Experience building or evolving architecture functions
- Strong distributed systems and cloud-native architecture knowledge
- Ability to operate across business, engineering and product stakeholders
- Previous people leadership experience
- Awareness of modern architecture patterns: DDD, Event-driven systems, CQRS, Hexagonal Architecture, Microservices
- Proven experience in driving AI into workflows, teams, and systems
- Understanding of observability, security and compliance considerations
- Ideally some exposure to mobile / customer-facing platforms
The environment itself is modern and ambitious without being overly corporate.
They’ve invested heavily into technology over the last 2 years, particularly across app and customer experience, and this role will play a major part in defining what the future technology organisation looks like.
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