Architecture Manager

McLaren; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren is seeking an experienced leader to drive the Vehicle Architecture program, defining the vehicle-level architecture and governance across domains including network topology, ECU allocation, diagnostics, and power distribution. This role partners with domain functions, infrastructure, validation and external partners to ensure coherent, production-ready system solutions.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership at key interface boundaries, ensuring artefacts, tooling and

Qualifications

• Leads the Vehicle Architecture team and defines the vehicle-level architecture.
• Defines the architectural framework covering network topology, ECU allocation, diagnostics, and power distribution.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and decision-making at key interface boundaries.
• Ensures artefacts, systems engineering tooling, methods and governance are coherent and aligned to programme timing, quality, cost and integration objectives.

Skills

Systems engineering

Architecture governance

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

This role leads the Vehicle Architecture team and is accountable for defining, governing and delivering the vehicle-level architecture needed to enable feature delivery across all programmes. The role owns the architectural framework spanning network topology, ECU and hardware allocation, signal definition, diagnostics, 12\\V power consumption and distribution as well as interface integration, ensuring robust, scalable and production-ready system solutions.

Working across domain function teams, infrastructure, validation and partner organisations, this role provides technical leadership and decision-making at key interface boundaries. It ensures vehicle architecture artefacts, systems engineering tooling, methods and governance are coherent, controlled and aligned to programme timing, quality, cost and integration objectives.