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Architecture Manager
Architecture Manager
About IAG Transform
We are part of International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s leading airline groups and owner of some of the biggest brands in the sky. IAG Transform provides creative and innovative solutions to drive sustainable transformation through procurement, airline services, and group-wide systems across IAG. Each operating company benefits from a centralised model, delivering efficiencies, automation, and economies of scale.
Purpose of the Role
The Architecture Manager is accountable for leading and coordinating the Group’s Generalist Architecture capability, providing:
- People leadership
- Architectural direction
- Governance across enterprise and solution architecture disciplines in enterprise applications and platforms
The role ensures architectural work undertaken by Principal and Solution Architects is:
- Coherent
- Prioritised
- Consistently applied
- Aligned with Group strategy, enterprise standards, and delivery needs
Acting as the primary leadership and escalation point for the Generalist Architecture team, the Architecture Manager balances:
- Strategic architectural integrity
- Pragmatic delivery support across a complex, federated operating environment
While not specialising in a single technology domain, the role is inherently:
- Multi-domain and product-agnostic
- Focused on the enterprise applications and platforms landscape
- Works horizontally across architecture disciplines to ensure application and platform choices align with coherent end-to-end outcomes, Group standards, and scalable delivery.
Responsibilities
Architecture Leadership & Coordination
- Lead, coordinate, and prioritise work of Generalist Principal Architects and Generalist Solution Architects across the Group
- Ensure clear alignment between enterprise-level architectural direction and solution-level design & delivery
- Act as the primary escalation point for:
- Architectural conflicts
- Trade-offs
- Cross-domain design issues
- Ensure consistent application of architecture principles, standards, and patterns across initiatives
Enterprise Architecture Oversight
- Own and maintain the integrity and coherence of the overall enterprise applications and platforms architecture landscape
- Define, maintain, and actively apply:
- Target states
- Transition roadmaps
- Architectural principles
- Identify and address:
- Duplication
- Fragmentation
- Misalignment across business capabilities and technology platforms
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Solution Architecture Governance & Assurance
- Oversee solution architecture quality and assurance across projects and programmes
- Ensure architectural risks, constraints, and decisions are identified early and managed through delivery
- Establish proportionate governance and assurance checkpoints aligned to:
- Scale
- Risk
- Complexity
People Leadership & Capability Development
- Provide line management, coaching, and performance management for:
- Generalist Principal Architects
- Generalist Solution Architects
- Support:
- Professional development
- Capability uplift
- Succession planning within the architecture team
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
- Ensure appropriate deployment of architecture resources across the delivery portfolio
Strategy, Change & Portfolio Support
- Partner with senior technology, delivery, and business leaders to align architecture activity with strategic priorities
- Support major change initiatives by ensuring the right architectural capability is engaged at the right time
- Balance longer-term architectural outcomes with immediate delivery pressures
Stakeholder & Supplier Engagement
- Represent the Group as a senior architectural leader with:
- Business leaders
- Programme sponsors
- Technology leadership
- Engage with suppliers and partners for architectural leadership or assurance
- Communicate complex architectural issues in:
- Clear
- Pragmatic
- Business-relevant terms
Architecture Practice & Continuous Improvement
- Own and evolve ways of working for the Generalist Architecture team
- Promote:
- Consistency
- Reuse
- Best practice across architecture deliverables
- Maintain awareness of:
- Industry architecture trends
- Emerging technologies
- Assess relevance and pragmatically adapt standards
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrable experience operating at Principal/Enterprise/Architecture Leadership level within complex organisations
- Strong understanding of both:
- Enterprise architecture
- Solution architecture disciplines
- Proven people leadership experience managing senior specialist roles
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across:
- Business functions
- Technology domains
- Broad architectural understanding across:
- Applications
- Integration
- Data
- Infrastructure
- Cloud
- Security
- Services
- Ability to operate effectively in:
- Complex, federated environments
- Multi-operating-company structures
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Desirable
- Experience leading architecture teams through transformation or modernisation initiatives
- Experience operating across international organisations and cultures
- Contribution to:
- Architecture standards
- Communities
- Best-practice development
Personal Attributes
- Enterprise-minded, balancing strategic thinking with practical judgement
- Credible, pragmatic, and confident operating at senior levels
- Comfortable working across:
- Ambiguity
- Change
- Complexity
- Collaborative, inclusive, and outcomes-focused leader
What We Offer
- The chance to enjoy a challenging career in a dynamic and fast-paced environment within aviation
- Opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment with state-of-the-art facilities across global locations
- Support for work/life balance
- Comprehensive benefits, including:
- Health Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Performance Bonuses
- Equal opportunities employer – all qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to:
- Race
- Colour
- Religion
- Sex
- National origin
- Disability status
- Protected veteran status
- Any other characteristic protected by law
About IAG Transform
IAG in Brief
IAG is one of the world’s largest airline groups, operating:
- 600+ aircraft
- Connecting more than 122 million customers annually to 260 destinations across 91 countries
Brands & Diversified Offerings
- Core airlines:
- Aer Lingus
- British Airways
- Iberia
- Level
- Vueling
- Supporting businesses:
- IAG Loyalty: Offers the global currency Avios and includes BA Holidays
- IAG Cargo: Delivers vital goods and produce globally
Sustainability Commitment
As the first airline group globally to commit to net zero by 2050, sustainability is at the core of IAG’s strategy.
Role & Impact
IAG Transform drives transformation across IAG and the aviation industry through expertise in:
- Procurement
- Technology
- AI
- Innovation
- Transformation
Locations
Based in London, UK, but presence across:
- Dublin (Ireland)
- Madrid (Spain)
- Barcelona (Spain)
- Kraków (Poland)
Your work here can create real impact, from operational improvements to groundbreaking change that reshapes the industry.
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