Head of Platform Architecture

6 months ago

Harmondsworth, United Kingdom IAG GBS Full time

Full-time
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Directorate: IAG Tech

**Company Description**:
The British Airways (BA) Architecture & Engineering team is part of BA Digital within the International Airlines Group (IAG), one of the world’s leading airline groups and owner of some of the biggest brands in the sky.

Our vision is to delight customers, enable our colleagues, accelerate business performance, increase shareholder value, and protect our business through the innovative and agile use of technology and data to become the most trusted digital airline.

To harness our full potential across BA Digital, we are changing fundamentally our ways of working by transitioning at speed into a Product led organisation.

Together we are building a better BA (British Airways).

As Head of Solution Architecture you are required to lead the solution architects embedded within our delivery squads delivering products across our customer journeys.

**Purpose of the role**
- Lead the solution architecture across their area, effectively influencing stakeholders to help define and deliver the future state and ensures adherence to policies, standards, and roadmaps.
- Guide the structuring of business problems to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are clearly understood and aligned with business objectives.
- Ensures that strategic transformational change is embedded within BA Digital, influencing and leveraging relationships to gain buy-in of internal and external stakeholders.
- Encourage identification and execution of continual improvement opportunities, ensuring the best outcomes for BA, driving optimal solutions through the implementation of the architecture roadmaps.
- Facilitate management of key supplier relationships, ensuring the quality of supplier deliverables meets BA Digital standards and fit with strategic business requirements on a continuing basis.
- Identify opportunities to work across BA Digital to underpin the successful delivery of major initiatives.

**Accountabilities**

Working in partnership with BA Digital and the business to:

- Steer technical leadership across a number of business or technical domains and the expertise to drive forward solutions, ensuring alignment with the business and technical strategic vision and goals.
- Lead Solution Architects and Principal Solution Architects as they provide expertise to the Business, Heads of Delivery, Technical Area Leads etc. and their teams in relation to all aspects of Solution Architecture setting the overall direction for Architecture within BA Digital.
- Oversee collaboration with Architects in their immediate and wider areas to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and aligned with business and technical architectures and strategic direction.
- Ensure all solution architecture activity across their area is aligned with policies and standards and roadmaps with a focus on consistency and efficiency of approach ensuring a balance between quality, cost and timescales. Identifies and resolves any potential non-compliance.
- Drive opportunities for business or IT change, communicates them persuasively to appropriate stakeholders.
- Recognise opportunities for business or IT change, communicates them persuasively to appropriate stakeholders with support from Lead Enterprise Architect.
- Define the agreed methods and tools for architecture and promote and support these.
- Lead, coach and mentor principal solution architects to enable their development.
- Communicate, steer and negotiate with all relevant stakeholders (both business and IT) to ensure a balance of usability and fit with the solution architecture.
- Oversee architectural reviews across their area to promote consistency, quality and learning.
- Lead strategic supplier relationships where third-party work or packages involve significant architectural decisions. Evaluates and approves third-party deliverables on behalf of BA Digital
- Participate when needed in solution and program Agile Ceremonies including system and program increment demos, and input into solution and program backlogs and management of capture of and prioritisation of capabilities and enablers.

This role may require some travel and working from multiple sites/locations within UK and internationally. You must be willing and able to travel to participate in meetings, workshops and other related activities.

**Qualifications**:

- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Recognized architecture qualification desirable
- TOGAF level 2 certification desirable

**Skills**:

- Demonstrates exemplary leadership and an ability to develop strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the organization and beyond.
- Strong people management skills with ability to build and motivate high performing teams, fostering collaboration and innovation within the team.
- A proven ability and experience of influencing and persuading internally and externally at senior and executive levels, leading by example and alignin

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