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Chief Architect

Summary

Chief Architect defines enterprise-wide Microsoft-centric architecture strategy, roadmaps, and governance for a healthcare-focused organization, driving cloud, AI, and data transformation in a hybrid role.

Salary: £95,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Proven experience operating as a Chief Architect, Enterprise Architect, or senior architecture leader within a complex enterprise environment.
  • Strong experience owning enterprise architecture roadmaps, governance, and target-state architectures.
  • Deep expertise across the Microsoft technology stack, including Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and data platforms.
  • Experience leading large-scale digital transformation and business change programmes.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native, integration, data, and application architecture principles.
  • Ability to engage and influence executive and board-level stakeholders.
  • Outstanding communication, leadership, and stakeholder management capabilities.
  • Experience within the Healthcare, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Clinical Services, or wider HealthTech sectors is highly desirable.
  • Understanding of operating within regulated environments with complex governance and compliance requirements is highly desirable.
  • Experience delivering architecture across customer, operational, clinical, and corporate business domains is highly desirable.
Responsibilities:
  • Own and evolve our enterprise architecture strategy, vision, and multi-year technology roadmap.
  • Act as our senior architectural authority across the organisation.
  • Translate our business strategy into practical and scalable technology solutions.
  • Lead our architecture governance, standards, principles, and decision-making frameworks.
  • Drive architectural alignment across programmes, projects, and product teams.
  • Establish future-state architectures that support growth, innovation, security, and resilience.
  • Partner with executive stakeholders to influence technology investment decisions.
  • Lead and mentor architects across multiple domains and delivery teams.
  • Ensure our architecture remains commercially focused, pragmatic, and outcome-driven.
  • Provide leadership across our Microsoft-centric technology landscape, including Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Data & AI Services, Microsoft 365, enterprise integration and API platforms, and digital, data, cloud, and security architecture.
Technologies:
  • AI
  • API
  • Architect
  • Azure
  • Cloud
  • Fabric
  • Support
  • Microsoft 365
  • Security
  • Office 365

More:

We are hiring a Chief Architect for a high-profile hybrid role focused on Microsoft technology leadership and enterprise-wide transformation. This is an opportunity to shape the future technology direction of a major organisation, with autonomy, influence, and executive sponsorship to deliver a modern architecture vision in a flexible hybrid environment. We view architecture as a strategic capability and a critical enabler of business success.

last updated 33 week of 2026

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