Architect jobs in United Kingdom

Central London, 5 days onsite a week

£90,000 - £120,000

Looking for candidates with experience of working within logistics, heavy industry or businesses with significant physical assets.

This logistics business, based in central London, has undertaken a significant change and transformation programme, producing a new multi‑SAAS platform that will underpin the future state of the architecture.

As part of this programme you will shape the future‑state architecture that enables the organisation to meet its strategic business goals. Your role ensures technology solutions directly support desired business outcomes—such as improved efficiency, customer experience, scalability, and innovation—while maintaining strong architectural integrity. You will oversee the design of systems and applications across the enterprise and regularly review the application portfolio to maximise value, reduce complexity, and ensure agility.

In a complex business environment you will work closely with senior architecture leadership to translate strategic business objectives into scalable, future‑ready architectural solutions. You’ll partner with business and product leaders to ensure technology decisions enhance business capability, value delivery, and time‑to‑market, while identifying technology enablers for business innovation, operational excellence, and digital transformation.

When providing architectural oversight on key projects you will ensure solutions are well‑designed, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise strategy. You will champion standardisation and reuse across the solution landscape to reduce redundancy and increase agility.

With a pragmatic approach to architecture governance and best practice you will contribute to defining and enforcing architectural principles, technology standards, and design patterns that balance innovation with operational integrity. You will lead architectural governance forums to review and approve solution designs and ensure architectural consistency across the enterprise.

Collaboration with the business is at the heart of your day‑to‑day, acting as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring architectural solutions are practical, understandable, and outcome‑driven.

• Multiple years experience in solution architecture, design, or technical leadership roles, with a track record of delivering business‑focused technology solutions.
• Experience working within logistics, heavy industry or businesses with significant physical assets (e.g., freight, oil & gas, shipping, aviation, engineering).
• Strong experience aligning technology strategies with business objectives in complex, multi‑system environments.
• Expertise in SAAS, integration design, and scalable architectures (e.g., microservices, APIs, event‑driven models).
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain complex architectural concepts in business‑relevant terms.
• Deep understanding of application lifecycle and broad familiarity with cloud platforms (not a cloud architecture position) and modern delivery models (Agile, DevOps).
• Experience in enterprise application portfolio management or rationalisation initiatives.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks (TOGAF, ArchiMate) and modelling tools, and the ability to deploy them appropriately.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., cloud architecture, enterprise architecture).

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on any grounds.