Head of Architecture

Head of Architecture Reports to:?Chief Technology Officer? Salary: £85-100k per annum dependant on experience? Location:?Stratford, with high flexibility of being in the office 1/2 days per week? Application method:?Please?ensure you?complete the experience section of the anonymous application form.? Application Deadline:?Sunday 26th?September 2021? Candidate Pack:? The Head of Architecture is a critical role within the newly redesigned Technology Leadership Team at Cancer Research UK, responsible for shaping,?iterating?and guiding the team towards?the future technology architecture for Cancer Research UK (CRUK). The role will also define and lead architectural?governance?and assurance in a highly agile, product-centric operating model. Together, these skills will ensure?that?key?technical?decisions?balance cost, risk, pace?and value, and?ultimately?accelerate the achievement of Cancer Research UK's compelling mission to Beat Cancer.?? The role-holder also?leads?CRUK's?technology?architecture?capability, including those?colleagues fulfilling architecture roles within portfolio teams, and will lead a small team of technical specialists. What will you be doing? In this role, you'll be responsible for: Providing leadership to the?charity in our?technology strategy and?architectural design across?all?domains?(including?business, applications, integration, infrastructure, data/analytics)?in order to ensure that our technology estate is coherent, effective and constantly evolving to meet our changing needs.? Partnering with?the leaders of our Product Portfolios as they refine their outcomes with their business counterparts?and build?highly effective, efficient roadmaps to deliver value iteratively over time. Architecture must be seen to influence and support increasingly product-centric and empowered ways of working within our portfolio teams. Ensuring that the charity's architecture strategy is informed by relevant sector trends in emerging technology capability - the role holder will?be seen as?a key thought-leader and influence in this respect.? Accountable for line managing, leading and developing an?Architecture capability to be proud of.?As a line manager you are responsible for creating a positive, inclusive culture which recognises success, develops and drives high performance and rewards collective results to retain talent within the team and wider function.?? Success in this role will be achieved?by?understanding and then influencing the corporate strategy and goals,?building a technology architecture framework, principles and standards, and?providing?technical direction?and highly collaborative leadership?to all key activities and teams. What are we looking for? To be successful in this role, you'll need to have extensive practical experience of leading architecture thinking and people in a relevant, highly digital and data-centric organisation or sector. You'll be a thought leader with deep content knowledge, whose opinions can be trusted and backed up by data and evidence. You'll also have: Experience?of?shaping and leading a capability team -?managing capacity,?ensuring in-house staff and contractors share the same vision and standards, and building and managing external partnerships successfully.?? People leadership skills as well as the ability to collaborate within and outside Technology, including: the ability?to build, mediate and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders across all levels, facilitating discussions, and?an adaptive?influencing style, unblocking work and creating buy-in to our architectural vision.Good knowledge of "industry standard" enterprise architecture frameworks,?and?software and platform?engineering?approaches (agile delivery,?microservices, cloud etc), applied in practice in a way that?enables?influence?across?the?Portfolio and Capability teams? What will I gain? Without you we wouldn't be able to achieve our aim of seeing 3 in 4 people survive cancer by 2034. So, we want to reward you in as many ways as possible. Our benefits package includes discounts on anything from travel to technology, generous holiday allowance of 30 days, gym membership, and much more. We want to ensure that you have the best work/life balance possible, so we actively encourage a flexible working culture for all our roles. For most of our office-based roles you'll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average. You'll also be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. And ultimately, you'll know that you'll be changing lives through your work. If you're as ambitious as we are, join our collective force and enjoy an excellent career, as we save lives and add years.