Head of Architecture

**Head of Architecture**

**Commercial Technology & Change**

**Permanent | Full Time**

**White City, London | Hybrid**

**Hiring Range**:£95,000 - £110,000

**Your work matters to millions.**

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

**Your impact sends ripples.**

**The team**

Millions of people use the products we build. We're customer focused, informed by data and have a product mindset, using state-of-the-art cloud-first technology. Iterating and evolving daily. In a fast-changing world, we not only make sure our systems work effectively but our Technology teams are spearheading the transformation to a digital-first business. There’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

As part of the Advanced Advertising Technology team, the focus is on data analytics, monetisation and financial governance. When you join us, you enter a fun working environment with opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

**The role**

You are accountable and responsible for building and advancing our architecture competency and introducing and maintaining an efficient delivery capability over the long term.

This is a leadership, people oriented role and carries reporting line duties for a small team of architects who work across our delivery teams. In addition, and where required, you will define, own and execute supplier management and cost management duties.

A key aspect of this role is to define and communicate a clear CT&C architecture vision and what needs to be achieved and how that aligns with our product roadmap - set direction and establish goals that align with the CT&C's mission and objectives.

The role will entail but not be limited to:

- Build a diverse, supportive, excellence-focused architecture culture and discipline across delivery teams. Put in place and promote our CT&C engineering architecture guild and promote
- Develop our expertise and knowhow by coaching and mentoring across our delivery teams and establish personal training programmes
- Line management of our architecture team: mentoring, mapping career pathways, training/upskilling and conducting performance reviews
- Expand our general awareness and understanding of related emerging technologies and best practice
- Own and deliver our architecture vision, strategy, and approach. Guide and support its implementation within our delivery teams
- Develop and implement AWS-based cloud solutions with a primary focus on security, scalability and appropriate performance throughput. Create and maintain secure architectural blueprints that adhere to industry standards and best practices and promote those across the team
- Direct key technical choices of related platforms, services and other tools, and facilitate their passage through technical governance
- Working with other heads of department and individual scrum leads and teams to Oversee the physical arch / design, define and promote the architecture/infrastructure requirements, define and own the architecture/infra related governance and change management processes, assess system capacity requirements & manage the balance between stability and innovation, ensuring that changes do not negatively impact service reliability
- Establish an overall architecture culture and ways of working which nurtures and evolves; Robust technical best practices and standards, devSecOps mindset, practices and tooling, promote awareness and policy of design/arch quality and technical debt & imbed Agile ways of working
- Being the primary contact for the Group Architecture team and CT&C contributing and supporting their initiatives and processes
- Support the feature design and engineering processes and look to establish and improve ways of working across these teams
- Cross functional collaboration with heads of department to align architecture and infra focused test strategies and practices to promote automated testing spanning both functional and non functional (security, scalability and performance etc)
- Align the architecture team’s goals and priorities with the engineering teams related service KPIs, incident KPIs, DORA metrics etc

**Skills you’ll need **(minimum criteria)
- Extensive experience preferably in a similar role or as a senior architect, leading teams and providing architectural direction. Ability to create and maintain a positive cu