Architect; Technology Advisory

Position: Architect (Technology Advisory)
The team you'll be working with:
We are looking for Solution Architects and developing Enterprise Architects who want to use architecture as an advisory capability, not simply as a means of producing designs and artefacts. You will join our Technology Consulting practice, working alongside Business Consulting and delivery teams to help clients make better technology decisions and turn strategic intent into practical, achievable change.

This role is well suited to an experienced Solution or Application Architect, or an early Enterprise Architect, who is comfortable operating with clients, structuring ambiguous problems, comparing options and explaining technology choices in business terms. You will typically lead a defined architecture or advisory workstream, or provide client side architecture leadership within a wider engagement.

Our strongest demand is in the application and solution domain. You will need enough breadth to understand how applications interact with integration, cloud platforms, data, cyber security and infrastructure, while drawing on specialist colleagues where deeper expertise is required.

What you'll be doing:
Typical client engagements

Client side Solution Architecture or Enterprise Architecture roles within transformation programmes and strategic initiatives.

Discovery and assessment work, framing business and technology priorities, developing solution options and comparing their value, cost, risk and delivery implications.

Application and technology strategy, including application modernisation, rationalisation, integration choices and the adoption of new technologies.

Cloud strategy and adoption advisory, including assessing cloud maturity, shaping principles and target direction, comparing migration or platform options, and understanding implications for the application estate. This is an advisory architecture role rather than a specialist cloud engineering or landing zone design role.

Architecture assurance and proportionate governance, challenging designs and helping teams remain aligned to agreed principles, target architectures and strategic direction.

Target architecture and roadmap development, connecting near term delivery decisions to longer term business and technology ambitions.

Evaluation of technology products, platforms and vendor solutions, supporting investment and sourcing decisions.

Technology input to operating model, transformation and business change work led jointly with Business Consulting colleagues.

Advisory work relating to AI adoption, including identifying relevant use cases, assessing technology implications and helping clients move from experimentation toward responsible, scalable adoption.

What you will do

Lead a defined client team or workstream through ambiguity to a value based outcome. This may involve coordinating others, but does not require formal line management.

Rapidly understand the client context, business objectives, stakeholder concerns and technology landscape, then structure the problem and identify the decisions that need to be made.

Develop pragmatic architecture recommendations and options, balancing business value, user needs, technical quality, cost, risk, delivery feasibility and time to value.

Create and communicate architecture outputs such as current and target state views, solution options, architecture principles, decision papers, roadmaps, investment recommendations, guardrails and high level solution designs.

Translate business capabilities and change priorities into application and technology implications, working closely with business consultants, client architects, delivery teams, engineers and suppliers.

Provide constructive challenge and assurance to solution designs and technology decisions, identifying material risks, dependencies, technical debt and opportunities for simplification.

Keep governance lightweight and useful, providing enough control to protect strategic intent without creating unnecessary friction for agile and continuous delivery teams.

Use AI thoughtfully in your own advisory work, for example to accelerate research, analysis, option generation and artefact creation, while applying appropriate judgement, validation and client controls.

Recognise when deeper data, cyber security, cloud engineering or infrastructure expertise is required and bring the right specialists into the engagement.

Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and communicate recommendations clearly to both technology and business audiences.

Contribution to the Technology Consulting practice

Identify client pain points and potential opportunities, help qualify them with account or practice leadership, and proactively contribute to proposals and client presentations.

Contribute to the development of Technology Advisory propositions, methods, reusable assets and thought leadership, taking responsibility for developing part of a practice capability.

Manage your own workstream responsibly, including time, expenses, risks and the commercial…