Lead Architect
📍 London – Television Centre💰 £85,000 – £100,000 per year (plus £5,441 London Weighting + 15% bonus OTE)📋 Permanent🕐 Full-time, flexible working available🏷 IT JobsVia BBC Careers
🏢 BBC Studios
| 📍 Location | London – Television Centre |
| 💰 Salary | £85,000 – £100,000 per year (plus £5,441 London Weighting + 15% bonus OTE) |
| 🕐 Hours | Full-time, flexible working available |
| 📋 Contract | Permanent |
| 🏷 Sector | IT Jobs |
| 📅 Closing | 3 July 2026 |
About this Role
BBC Studios is hiring a Lead Architect to create the conditions in which good architectural decisions emerge across engineering teams. Rather than acting as a central authority, you will operate as a facilitator — shaping direction, enabling teams, and ensuring local decisions align with broader system goals and long-term sustainability. Key responsibilities include facilitating architectural thinking within teams, supporting engineers in evaluating trade-offs (scalability, operability, cost, coupling, resilience), setting architectural direction through principles and ‘sensible defaults’, and working closely with Product, Engineering and Delivery leadership to align business goals with technology direction. You will coach engineers in architectural thinking and help shape decisions around build vs buy, platform vs product, and long-term investment. Strong experience with distributed systems, evolutionary architecture practices, and cloud-native systems required.
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