Associate Architect
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 31 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £500 bob dydd |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, London, W2 1NW |
| Cwmni: | Experis |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | BBBH419582_1753979727 |
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Associate Architect
Length: 6 months
Rate: £500 per day inside IR35
Location: Waterside, Paddington 3 days per week
As an integral member of the Architecture team, you'll be joining a well-loved, historic brand with technology solutions that serve millions of customers and empower thousands of colleagues every year. We're transforming and modernising our approach to technology, ensuring the business continues to differentiate through strategic technology investments and growing our architecture capability as a key enabler.
As an Associate Architect you will provide process and governance services within Technology Architecture within a retail environment. Being creative and curious, you will be an integral part our of empowered, self-managing technology teams- supporting Products and Platforms in collaboration with others across architecture, platform and engineering teams. You will assist with process and governance of solution designs that solve complex problems for our customers and colleagues.
Architecture governance ensures that the technology direction delivers strategic value by aligning with business priorities and providing business assurance. Through establishing and enforcing architectural guardrails, it accelerates decision-making and enables agility, consistency, and accountability across the organisation.
Key Accountabilities
- Decision Making and Oversight - Support the processes approval for all architecture decisions ensuring alignment with business priorities and investment strategies
- Governance & Compliance - Ensures adherence to architecture Principles, Standards and Patterns and best practice
- Demand Management - Has oversight on all demand which has an architectural impact
- Reporting - Demonstrate the progress of process and governance activities
Responsibilities
- Establish the core architecture governance forums (Delegated Design Authority, Architecture Review Board)
- Capture the key outcomes, decisions and actions and issue formal minutes to key stakeholders
- Manage the backlog of Solution Designs from being submitted to being approved (or withdrawn)
- Create a weekly status report on the progress of solution designs
- Manage the demand and supply of Architecture related resources working with internal teams where appropriate
- Support the Practice Architect with the process and governance activities (and acting as a delegate where needed)
Measures
- Delivery of solution designs to meet product/project timelines with minimal rework
- Adherence to architecture standards
- Provide evidence of growth in technical and architectural skills
Key Skills
This role requires to be very organised and be able to manage multiple activities.
Technical Skills
- An understanding of technology architecture at a high level
- Very strong use of Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint
Other Skills
- Strong stakeholder management
- Excellent written and verbal communication at all levels
- Proven track record of cross-functional team collaboration
- Drive for continuous improvement and innovation