Lead Architect (Third Party)

JOB DETAILS

JOB BAND: E

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Product Group, Enablement

LOCATION: London, Glasgow, Salford, Newcastle, Cardiff

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £95,000 - £110,000 (depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience)

Flexible working will be discussed at offer stage.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are seeking a technically strong and strategically minded Lead Architect for this new role within Product Group's Enablement team. You'll play a key role in ensuring third party suppliers can integrate solutions with our internal architecture.

This role will act as a bridge between external delivery teams and our internal architecture and engineering functions, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions are delivered in line with our technical vision.

This role includes technical leadership, strategic direction, and hands on influence across the business.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

In this role you'll join a world class team of technology leaders helping the BBC to become the world's leading global media organisation. Our mission - informing, educating, and entertaining audiences - is more important than ever, and the right technology solutions are critical for the BBC to thrive in an ever changing digital world. Our modern, cloud based architecture has room for more impact, and this role offers the opportunity to make a real difference to both technology and society.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• Act as a senior technical leader in select engagements with third party suppliers, reviewing solution designs, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns.
• Identify architectural gaps and opportunities for improvement in BBC solutions where suppliers could add value, such as rationalising multiple similar solutions or addressing underlying technical debt.
• Contribute to designing and facilitating governance forums.
• Collaborate with architects and suppliers to document and maintain architectural decisions.
• Participate in regular reviews and governance processes to ensure third party supplied products, services or custom build work meet expectations.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Proven experience as a senior technical leader (architect or principal engineer).
• Strong experience developing cloud native architectures (ideally AWS).
• Proven experience in solution architecture, ideally in multi vendor environments.
• Experience with API design, microservices, event driven architecture, and integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with multi disciplinary in house agile teams to deliver on architectural strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, building partnerships across the organisation.
• Ability to challenge and influence technical decisions constructively.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED

• Experience evaluating existing and emerging technologies to support teams in solving complex problems.
• Commitment to continuous learning, staying informed on emerging technologies, industry trends, and evolving best practices.

EEO & DIASPERSITY STATEMENT

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief. The BBC is a disability confident employer. If you need adjustments for the interview process or role, please contact .

BENEFITS

Benefits include: fair pay, flexible 35 hour working week, 25 days annual leave (plus optional extra days), defined pension scheme, discounted dental, health care and gym. Support in your working life and flexible working options are available at any time during application, selection or offer. Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with Contracts of Employment policy. Failure to disclose may result in withdrawal of your offer.

Disclaimer: This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, and is not intended to be a complete detailed account of all duties. The BBC conducts employment screening checks which include reference checks, eligibility to work checks, and where applicable, safeguarding and adverse media/social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on satisfactory checks. The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC.