Head of Architecture Full Time

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Sector: Construction and Building Services

Role: Senior Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Head of Architecture
Commercial Technology & Change
Permanent Full Time
White City, London Hybrid
Hiring Range: £95,000 – £110,000
Please note: This is to assist candidates in assessing their suitability for the role. The range does not represent a longer-term salary commitment for the role.

Your work matters to millions.
Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution. When you join us, you enter a fun working environment with opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference.

The team
Millions of people use the products we build. We’re customer-focused, informed by data and have a product mindset, using state-of-the-art cloud-first technology. In a fast-changing world, we not only make sure our systems work effectively but our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

The role
Our Head of Architecture is responsible for shaping and harmonising our application architecture capabilities and solution designs across our engineering delivery teams. You will be known as a technical authority and champion of best practice design and architecture standards. You will identify, define and nurture our architecture framework and introduce that to our application engineering teams. You will improve our general level of expertise and working culture, and be excited about helping people achieve their full potential.

You are accountable and responsible for building and advancing our architecture competency and introducing and maintaining an efficient delivery capability over the long term. This is a leadership, people-oriented role and carries reporting line duties for a small team of architects who work across our delivery teams. In addition, and where required, you will define, own and execute supplier management and cost management duties.

A key aspect of this role is to define and communicate a clear CT&C architecture vision and what needs to be achieved and how that aligns with our product roadmap – set direction and establish goals that align with the CT&C’s mission and objectives.

The role will entail but not be limited to:

• Build a diverse, supportive, excellence-focused architecture culture and discipline across delivery teams.
• Develop our expertise and know-how by coaching and mentoring across our delivery teams and establish personal training programmes.
• Line management of our architecture team: mentoring, mapping career pathways, training/upskilling and conducting performance reviews.
• Expand our general awareness and understanding of related emerging technologies and best practice.
• Own and deliver our architecture vision, strategy, and approach. Guide and support its implementation within our delivery teams.
• Develop and implement AWS-based cloud solutions with a primary focus on security, scalability and appropriate performance throughput.
• Direct key technical choices of related platforms, services and other tools, and facilitate their passage through technical governance.
• Working with other heads of department and individual scrum leads and teams to oversee the physical architecture/design, define and promote the architecture/infrastructure requirements.
• Establish an overall architecture culture and ways of working which nurtures and evolves; Robust technical best practices and standards.
• Being the primary contact for the Group Architecture team and CT&C contributing and supporting their initiatives and processes.
• Support the feature design and engineering processes and look to establish and improve ways of working across these teams.
• Cross-functional collaboration with heads of department to align architecture and infra focused test strategies and practices.
• Align the architecture team’s goals and priorities with the engineering teams related service KPIs, incident KPIs, DORA metrics etc.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Extensive experience preferably in a similar role or as a senior architect, leading teams and providing architectural direction.
• Experience having led and/or executed a design authority/governance process.
• Hands-on extensive experience with AWS services.
• Deep knowledge of AWS Well-Architected Framework and best practices.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Ability to design highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems.
• Deep understanding of microservices and serverless architectures.
• Proven track record in designing, implementing, and optimising cloud architectures on AWS.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Fulfilled a mentorship role encouraging professional growth.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of the UK broadcast industry & broadcast/OTT advertising market.
• Knowledge of digital marketing and advertising industry.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Good understanding of data governance, data privacy, and security principles.

ITV is for everyone.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.
ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone.
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more.
• Annual bonus opportunity.
• Competitive pension contribution.
• Save as you earn – with an opportunity to buy ITV shares.
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life.

More about our benefits

Company

ITV is the biggest commercial television network in the UK. Which means we offer some of the biggest career opportunities in the industry.

We love telly, we’re passionate about content, and most importantly we understand our audiences. Thanks to an impressive 60-year history, our leadership is stronger than ever.

In other words, it’s somewhere that everyone can thrive.

Here at ITV, we celebrate individuality, we’re committed to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. ITV loves a level playing field

It’s just a natural part of what we do.

As members of the Creative Diversity Network (CDN), we’ve made a public commitment to improve representation of society on screen.