Architecture Practice Coordinator: Governance & Ops

BoF Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking an Architecture Practice Co-ordinator to run the IT Architecture practice, coordinating governance forums, documentation and decision records. You will track demand, allocate architecture resources, and ensure cadence and standards are followed across Enterprise, Solution and Programme teams.

This role supports the VP Strategy, Architecture & Data with planning, budgeting and vendor administration, without defining architecture strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a practice coordination, PMO, business operations, governance coordination or operational administration role within a technology environment
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple forums, documents, actions, deadlines and stakeholders
• Comfortable working with senior technology leaders, architects and technical stakeholders
• Knowledge of architecture as a discipline is beneficial, with enough understanding of architecture concepts to coordinate reviews, documentation and resource planning effectively
• Strong attention to detail, with experience maintaining action logs, decision records, documentation repositories and governance materials
• Confident and persuasive communicator, able to build constructive relationships, produce clear agendas, meeting notes, action summaries and practice updates, and secure timely input or action from stakeholders without creating unnecessary friction
• Experience supporting resource allocation, capacity tracking, budget administration or contingent resource onboarding is beneficial
• Experience or knowledge of architecture governance, technical standards management or design review processes is beneficial
• Experience of governance processes in any context is useful, particularly where it involved coordinating forums, tracking decisions, following up actions and maintaining records
• Practical experience of using enterprise architecture tools, such as Ardoq or similar EA repository and platform tools, is highly beneficial
• Comfortable working with structured repositories, workflow tools and collaboration platforms to maintain accurate records, track actions and provide visibility of progress
• Able to bring structure to ambiguous or evolving ways of working, helping turn informal practices into repeatable routines, templates and governance processes.
• Experience in Retail, Luxury or Consumer Goods industries is beneficial

Responsibilities

• Coordinate architecture governance forums, architecture reviews and standards boards, including scheduling, agendas, materials, minutes, decision records and follow-up actions
• Maintain architecture governance artefacts, including decision logs, standards repositories, reference architecture materials, exceptions, waivers, review outcomes and supporting audit trails, ensuring they are current, accessible and consistently structured
• Track architecture actions, exceptions, waivers and follow-ups, using constructive challenge and persuasive follow-through to keep agreed activities moving and escalating overdue or unresolved items to the relevant architect, forum owner or architecture leadership team where appropriate
• Coordinate architecture input into the portfolio process, ensuring impact assessments, design reviews and checkpoints are scheduled and completed within agreed timescales
• Maintain visibility of architecture demand across portfolio, programme, platform and domain-aligned teams, supporting the VP and architecture leadership team to identify capacity constraints and prioritisation challenges.
• Track resource allocation across the architecture pool, including Enterprise Architects, Senior Solution Architects, Solution Architects and contingent architecture resources
• Coordinate onboarding and administration for contingent architecture resources, including access, induction, allocation tracking and offboarding
• Support the VP Strategy, Architecture & Data with practice planning, budget tracking, purchase orders, vendor administration and reporting inputs
• Own and maintain architecture ways of working documentation, including templates, governance guidance, review processes, practice routines, naming conventions, version control and document ownership expectations
• Coordinate internal communications and architecture community activities, including practice updates, knowledge-sharing sessions and brown bags
• Support adoption of architecture documentation standards by working with architects and delivery teams to keep key materials current, accessible and consistently maintained.

Skills

Proven experience in a practice co-ord

Strong organisational skills

Clear, persuasive communication

Stakeholder management

Governance coordination

Resource planning

Structured documentation

Onboarding contingent resources

Budget administration

Architecture governance knowledge

Ability to turn informal processes to

Tools

Ardoq

Job description

Burberry is seeking an Architecture Practice Co-ordinator to run the IT Architecture practice, coordinating governance forums, documentation and decision records. You will track demand, allocate architecture resources, and ensure cadence and standards are followed across Enterprise, Solution and Programme teams.

This role supports the VP Strategy, Architecture & Data with planning, budgeting and vendor administration, without defining architecture strategy.