Power Platform Architect

• As Technical Architect, you will operate across services, programmes and portfolios, working with service and product owners, delivery teams, cyber security, data, commercial colleagues and senior leaders
• You will be accountable for the quality and consistency of significant architecture decisions and for making trade-offs visible to decision-makers
• You will guide the use of Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, approved AI services, Azure and pro-code integration patterns without assuming that one tool is suitable for every need
• You will shape guardrails, reference architectures and assurance proportionate to risk, including identity, information protection, integration, resilience, operability and responsible AI
• The role also provides professional leadership
• You will coach architects, improve architecture practice and create the conditions for multidisciplinary teams and suppliers to make timely, evidence-based decisions
• Technical architecture across the Application Platforms portfolio and connect service-level decisions to organisational strategy, enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps
• Own or assure complex and high-risk designs covering Power Platform, automation, AI agents, Microsoft 365, Azure, APIs, data services and bespoke applications
• Define and maintain reference architectures, principles, standards and reusable patterns that enable delivery while managing security, data, accessibility, operational and lifecycle risks
• Chair or lead proportionate design assurance, record significant decisions and ensure that exceptions, risks, technical debt and dependencies have clear owners and treatment plans
• Advise leaders on architectural options, benefits, costs, constraints and consequences, translating technical complexity into decisions about services, users and organisational capability
• Shape platform and supplier choices with commercial, financial and service-management colleagues, including whole-life cost, licensing, exit, portability and supportability considerations
• Work across organisational boundaries to resolve conflicting needs, align roadmaps and manage dependencies between platforms, shared services and delivery teams
• Use evidence from delivery, operations, risk and technology trends to improve strategy, resilience and investment priorities
• Coach solution architects and strengthen the architecture community through peer review, knowledge sharing and consistent professional practice

Benefits

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment
• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Pizza Thursday monthly, weekly social in the office and commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Benefits Platform offering various retail and leisure discounts

• Commercial awareness, including the architectural implications of sourcing, licensing, suppliers, contracts, portability and exit strategies
• Experience shaping strategy and roadmaps that connect technical, user, operational and organisational perspectives
• Substantial experience leading technical architecture for complex, high-risk or organisation-wide digital services and technology portfolios specifically in Microsoft products
• Ability to set technical direction across multiple teams and to make or assure decisions that balance user need, strategy, security, delivery feasibility, cost and service sustainability
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, including decision records, standards, risk-based assurance, service assessments and management of exceptions and technical debt
• Ability to communicate architecture clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and build support for high-impact decisions where evidence, risk or stakeholder views conflict
• Experience designing and governing cloud-based application ecosystems, including enterprise platforms, APIs, identity, data and integration services
• Evidence of coaching architects, developing professional capability and improving practice across teams or communities
• Architecture experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365, Azure and associated governance and integration patterns
• Experience assuring AI-enabled or agentic solutions, including grounding, tool access, human oversight, evaluation, monitoring and responsible AI controls
• Understanding of regulated, justice, public-sector or security-conscious environments
• Relevant architecture, cloud or Microsoft certifications, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience contributing to portfolio investment decisions, technology strategy or enterprise architecture