Managed Services Lead Architect - Manchester

Managed Services Lead Architect

The following information aims to provide potential candidates with a better understanding of the requirements for this role.

Up to £115,000 + bonus and benefits
Manchester | Five days onsite
SC eligibility required
This is a senior technical leadership role with responsibility for the architecture of a large, complex, live managed-services account.
You'll be the overall technical authority across infrastructure, cloud, networks, security, workplace and other core technology services. Rather than owning one particular technology tower, you'll maintain oversight of the entire estate and ensure its architecture remains resilient, supportable and aligned with the client's long-term strategy.
You'll lead and challenge specialist Domain Architects, govern technical designs and changes, and advise senior client and account stakeholders.
This role requires the right balance of technical depth and strategic oversight. You'll understand infrastructure technologies well enough to challenge specialists on subjects such as networking, resilience and disaster recovery-but you'll also know when to step back from the detail and consider the wider account, operational and commercial picture.

What you'll be responsible for

Owning the end-to-end architecture of a major managed-services estate

Setting its overall technology strategy and future direction

Leading and challenging Domain Architects across multiple technology areas

Governing technical designs, changes and architecture decisions

Managing technology roadmaps, technical debt and obsolescence

Ensuring new solutions are operationally supportable before entering live service

Balancing modernisation with resilience, cost, risk and contractual commitments

Providing senior technical leadership during major incidents and operational risks

Advising senior client stakeholders and the wider account leadership team

Driving continuous improvement across live services

What we're looking for

You'll be an experienced Lead, Chief, Enterprise or Infrastructure Architect who has progressed into account-level technical leadership without losing your technical grounding.
Your experience should include:
Broad infrastructure architecture knowledge across several technology domains

Ownership or governance of large, complex live-service environments

Leading architects and challenging specialist technical teams

Strong architecture governance and design assurance experience

Technology strategy, roadmaps, technical debt and lifecycle management

Operational resilience, disaster recovery and major-incident involvement

Ensuring solutions can transition successfully into live service

Senior client and stakeholder engagement

Commercial awareness gained within managed services, outsourcing or another complex operational environment

This is unlikely to suit someone who has worked solely within one technology tower, or a high-level Enterprise Architect who is no longer comfortable discussing infrastructure in meaningful technical detail.

Location and clearance

Due to the secure nature of the environment, you must be able to work onsite in Manchester five days per week .
You must also meet the requirements to obtain UK SC clearance .
Salary: Up to £115,000 + bonus and benefits
If you're a technically credible infrastructure leader who can govern an entire client estate while still challenging the detail, get in touch for a confidential conversation. xehkeey
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