Director of Solution Architecture

Overview

You lead the Solution Architecture function across Royal Mail’s estate, shaping the future technology strategy. You translate enterprise goals into concrete architectural blueprints and ensure design quality across major programmes. You guide a federated team of architects and drive cloud-native, platform-led approaches to deliver business value. You will partner with senior leaders to steer investment decisions and transform ways of working. This is a pivotal role at a national organisation undergoing rapid transformation.

Pay / Benefits

• Family friendly support
• Health and dental
• Health assessment
• Benefits account (My Bundle+)
• Wellbeing services
• Sick pay

Responsibilities

• Lead and mature the Solution Architecture function across the Royal Mail estate
• Translate enterprise strategy into solution-level blueprints, standards and roadmaps
• Oversee architecture assurance, governance and design quality for major programmes
• Guide a large, federated community of architects (~50) through modern ways of working
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, platform-led and product-aligned architecture practices
• Partner with senior business and technology leaders to shape investment and delivery decisions
• Hold internal teams and strategic partners to account for quality and value

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading architecture functions in large, complex organisations
• Deep expertise in solution and enterprise architecture with strong cloud knowledge (Azure & GCP)
• Track record transforming architecture teams and ways of working
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to influence at executive level and drive change through organisational barriers
• Broad understanding of business, data, cloud, infrastructure and cyber architecture

• Strong leadership
• Stakeholder management
• Effective communication
• Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Solution architecture

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