Lead Architect

BT Ireland; Bristol; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company is seeking a Lead Architect to enhance customer experience and drive profitable growth. As a trusted advisor to senior technical leaders, you will create enterprise architectural designs and manage complex solutions. The role requires strategic thinking, communication, and business strategy skills, along with relevant industry qualifications. Attractive compensation and benefits are included.

Benefits

15% on target bonus

25 days annual leave

Flexible benefits including healthcare

World-class training and development opportunities

Discounts on broadband, mobile, and retail

Qualifications

• Proficient in creating enterprise architectural designs.
• Experience in managing complex solution architectures.
• Ability to act as a trusted advisor for technology and design.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the account leadership team and the customer's trusted advisor.
• Maintain a multi-year solution roadmap.
• Ensure technical risks and issues are managed and mitigated.
• Drive revenue generation, cashflow, and quality delivery.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Business Strategy

Education

Industry qualifications appropriate to architectural design

Job description

Lead Architect

Posting Date: 29 Oct 2025

Function: Architecture Solution and Design

Unit: Business

Location: Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive + Bonus

Posting Date: 25/09/2025

Location: Bristol

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

The Principal Architect is the most Senior Technical Leadership role aligned to one of BT Business’s largest and most complex accounts. The holder will be proficient and experienced in creating enterprise architectural designs for UK’s leading companies.

The key purpose of the role is to enhance the customer experience and drive profitable growth. The Architect is the customer’s Trusted Advisor for technology and design, as such an integral part of the customer’s matrix technical leadership team. They create value through the exploitation of technology across complex architectures.

The holder is expected to hold industry qualifications appropriate to architectural design of complex solutions containing BT products and associated technologies, for example: WAN, LAN, DC networking, Voice and Collaboration, Contact Centres, Security and Tooling.

The roles you’ll be doing

The Architect is the primary customer interface up to CIO level for all technical design aspects of BT’s solution. Specifically:

• Be part of the account leadership team and the customer's trusted advisor
• Maintain a multi-year solution roadmap, co-created with the customer's key decision makers and stakeholders. Drawing on the customer’s business drivers, industry trends and BT’s product and solutions portfolio
• Ensure technical risks and issues are managed and mitigated
• Provide leadership to the operational teams in moments of major customer jeopardy

Drive revenue generation, cashflow, EBIT, NPS and on time quality delivery

The skills you’ll need

• Strategic Thinking
• Communication
• Business Strategy

At BT, we entertain, educate, and empower millions of people every single day. We’re a brand built on connecting people – whether that’s friends, family, businesses, or communities. Working here, you’ll receive an attractive salary and a range of competitive benefits, but – more than that – you’ll be joining an ambitious organisation with a culture of togetherness, collaboration, and inclusivity, that takes a genuine and proactive interest in your progress and development.

• 15% on target bonus
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes
• Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages and access to hundreds of retail discounts including the BT shop
• Equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up!

With over 175 years of heritage, BT is now the flagship business brand of BT Group. We’ve brought together our best people and capabilities into a B2B powerhouse serving 1.2 million business customers internationally.

We’re a global leader for secure connectivity and collaboration platforms for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from big household names and government departments, right through to sole traders and new start-ups. But it’s not just the technology that matters, it’s what it can do to help them build stronger, smarter, more secure businesses.

We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact. We connect for good by championing digital inclusion and equipping people, businesses, and communities with digital skills to thrive.

As a member of our team, you will be part of an organisation that celebrates difference, fosters innovation and provides you with opportunities to be your best. With millions of businesses relying on us daily, joining BT means you can be part of a diverse and multi-skilled team that makes a significant impact to society.

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We\'re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you\'re excited about this role but your past experience doesn\'t align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.