Overview
We are seeking a skilled Platform Architect to take on a pivotal role in providing architectural leadership for critical enterprise-scale digital platforms. In this position, the architect will collaborate with senior technical, business, and vendor stakeholders to define and govern the architecture, ensuring that solutions meet high standards of resilience, scalability, and performance. This hybrid role offers an opportunity to work on diverse technologies including consumer applications, digital identity, and APIs while exploring advancements in AI and automation.
Responsibilities
- Own and define the technical architecture for critical platforms.
- Establish architecture patterns, principles and anti-patterns.
- Govern solutions through Design Authority.
- Review and assure technical designs, builds and sizing estimates.
- Ensure platforms meet requirements around resilience, scalability, performance and lifecycle management.
- Resolve complex technical escalations and architectural blockers.
- Help shape platform capability roadmaps and future investment.
- Explore opportunities to use AI, LLMs and automation to improve architecture processes.
Requirements
- Deep Platform Architecture / Enterprise Architecture experience.
- Strong enterprise-scale system design background.
- Strong technical knowledge across at least two relevant digital platform areas.
- Proven experience working with or governing Design Authorities.
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, resilience, and platform health.
- Experience assuring complex technical solutions.
- Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills.
- Experience within telecommunications, media, streaming, or large-scale consumer technology platforms.