Architecture Lead – IT/OT

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd. seeks an Architecture Lead for IT/OT in Glasgow/Aberdeen. This interim role leads the Transmission Architecture function, shaping strategies, roadmaps and governance while guiding a team through complex transformations in the electricity sector.

The role requires extensive Enterprise Architecture leadership, strong cross-functional collaboration, and proven ability to balance enterprise concerns with solution delivery in OT environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive senior Enterprise Architecture experience.
• Strong capability to move between enterprise and solution levels.
• Proven leadership of architecture teams or communities.
• Experience in OT environments and IT/OT integration.
• Experience engaging with senior business and tech stakeholders.
• Knowledge of governance, standards, and target architectures.

Responsibilities

• Act as interim leader of Transmission Architecture and guide the architecture function.
• Provide day-to-day direction, prioritisation and coordination for the architecture team.
• Shape and maintain architectural strategies, principles, and roadmaps for Transmission.
• Lead architectural assurance across major projects and supplier-led delivery.
• Ensure alignment of IT/OT architectures and governance across the organisation.
• Oversee Solution Architecture across projects without delivery responsibility.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Leadership

IT/OT knowledge

Stakeholder Management

Architectural Governance

Tools

Bizzdesign

Job description

Architecture Lead - IT/OT

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - market rate

Glasgow or Aberdeen based - 1-2 days onsite

Electricity/Energy sector

Key Responsibilities

Interim Architecture Leadership

• Act as the effective interim leader of the Transmission Architecture function, providing leadership broadly equivalent to that expected of the permanent Head of Architecture.
• Provide day-to-day direction, prioritisation and coordination for the architecture team.
• Establish clear priorities and ensure the team's effort is focused on the most important business, technology and delivery outcomes.

Enterprise Architecture

• Provide heavyweight Enterprise Architecture leadership across the Transmission organisation.
• Shape and maintain architectural strategies, principles, target architectures and roadmaps.
• Ensure architecture is aligned with wider Group technology and architecture strategy.

Architecture Assurance & Governance

• Lead the architectural assurance of major projects, programmes, technology initiatives and supplier-led delivery.
• Establish appropriate architectural guardrails and ensure they are understood and applied.
• Review and challenge Solution Architecture produced by project teams, suppliers and other delivery organisations.

IT & OT Architecture

• Provide senior architectural leadership across both IT and Operational Technology environments.
• Participate in high-level technology and project discussions across Transmission.
• Understand and account for the specific operational, technical, resilience and risk considerations associated with OT environments.
• Help ensure appropriate architectural alignment across the IT/OT boundary.

Project & Solution Architecture

• Provide senior oversight of Solution Architecture across projects and programmes.
• Work with project teams to shape and assure solutions without becoming primarily responsible for project delivery.

Experience & Skills

Essential

• Extensive experience operating at senior Enterprise Architecture level.
• Strong Solution Architecture experience and the ability to move comfortably between enterprise and solution-level concerns.
• Proven experience leading an architecture team, function or significant architecture community.
• Significant experience working in Operational Technology (OT) environments.
• Experience working across the IT/OT boundary.
• Previous people leadership, team management or equivalent leadership experience.
• Broad technical knowledge across areas such as applications, data, integration, infrastructure, platforms and technology.
• Strong experience of architecture governance, assurance, standards, principles and target architectures.
• Experience working across large, complex transformation and technology portfolios.
• Experience working with senior business, technology and delivery stakeholders.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in an asset-intensive organisation or environment.

Highly Desirable

• Direct experience within the electricity industry, particularly transmission, distribution or generation.
• Wider energy or utilities sector experience.
• Experience within large-scale infrastructure or capital investment organisations.
• Experience providing architectural leadership across major transformation programmes.
• Experience working with architecture repositories and modelling tools, particularly Bizzdesign.
• Experience working within a federated architecture model alongside a Group or enterprise architecture function.
• Experience establishing or developing an architecture function within a complex organisation.