• Technical architecture across the Application Platforms portfolio and connect service-level decisions to organisational strategy, enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps.
• Own or assure complex and high-risk designs covering Power Platform, automation, AI agents, Microsoft 365, Azure, APIs, data services and bespoke applications.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, principles, standards and reusable patterns that enable delivery while managing security, data, accessibility, operational and lifecycle risks.
• Chair or lead proportionate design assurance, record significant decisions and ensure that exceptions, risks, technical debt and dependencies have clear owners and treatment plans.
• Advise leaders on architectural options, benefits, costs, constraints and consequences, translating technical complexity into decisions about services, users and organisational capability.
• Shape platform and supplier choices with commercial, financial and service-management colleagues, including whole-life cost, licensing, exit, portability and supportability considerations.
• Work across organisational boundaries to resolve conflicting needs, align roadmaps and manage dependencies between platforms, shared services and delivery teams.
• Use evidence from delivery, operations, risk and technology trends to improve strategy, resilience and investment priorities.
• Coach solution architects and strengthen the architecture community through peer review, knowledge sharing and consistent professional practice.