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Chief Architect (Interim)
Global Transportation Company London (On Site) Contract | Competitive Day Rate
We are supporting a global Transportation organisation on the appointment of a Chief Architect (Interim) to lead a critical phase of its digital and technology transformation.
This is a high-impact leadership role, operating at the heart of the digital leadership team, with responsibility for shaping and delivering enterprise-wide architecture and engineering strategy in a complex, large-scale environment.
The Opportunity
This role blends strategic vision with architecture and engineering leadership, taking ownership of architecture as a true business enabler, not just a governance function.
You will be responsible for:
- Modernising legacy environments
- Accelerating digital capabilities
- Embedding scalable, future-ready technology foundations
- Enabling increased adoption of AI and emerging technologies
- Supporting innovation across operational and customer-facing functions
With significant investment underway and strong executive backing, this is a unique opportunity to influence the direction of a globally recognised organisation at pace.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and own the end-to-end Architecture and Engineering strategy, aligned to wider business and technology objectives
- Provide leadership across:
- Enterprise architecture
- Solution architecture
- Platform architecture
- Software engineering teams
- Define and implement architecture standards, guardrails, and governance, ensuring consistency across delivery
- Drive adoption of modern practices including:
- Cloud architectures
- DevSecOps
- APIs
- Microservices
- Agile delivery
- Establish and evolve foundational capabilities that enable product teams to innovate at speed
- Act as a senior decision-maker on:
- Technology direction
- Standards
- Strategic design (enterprise-wide)
- Develop and present technology roadmaps and business cases, influencing senior stakeholders on key trade-offs
- Build and maintain trusted relationships across business and technology leadership, acting as a strategic advisor
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing architecture and engineering leadership team
- Champion a culture of:
- Engineering excellence
- Innovation
- Continuous improvement
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Scope & Scale
- Reports to: Chief Information Officer
- Direct leadership of 5–10 senior leaders, with a dotted-line responsibility for an overall team of 100+ staff
- Including third-party resources
- Accountability for a £10m+ Opex budget, with governance over a significantly larger technology spend
What We’re Looking For
Proven experience operating in a senior technology leadership role within:
- A complex, global organisation
- Deep expertise across:
- Enterprise architecture
- Full-stack engineering
- Modern digital platforms
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Strong understanding of:
- Cloud architectures
- APIs
- Microservices
- DevSecOps
- Scalable application design
Experience leading architecture across:
- Application
- Data
- Infrastructure domains
Demonstrated ability to:
- Influence senior stakeholders to drive enterprise-wide change
- Lead and develop large, multi-disciplinary teams
- Work in Agile, product-centric environments (e.g., SAFe)
- Exhibit strong commercial awareness, including:
- Business case development
- Technology investment decisions
Leadership Profile
You will bring a combination of:
- Strategic thinking and technical depth
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills
- A collaborative, inclusive leadership style
- The confidence to challenge the status quo and drive change
- A passion for innovation, learning, and continuous improvement
Why Apply?
- Enterprise-wide impact within a globally recognised organisation
- Significant influence over technology strategy and investment
- Opportunity to shape modern architecture and engineering capabilities at scale
- Immediate start with strong executive visibility and backing
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