Hybrid IT Architect: Strategy, Security & Cloud

Mobile Broadband Network Ltd (MBNL); Reading; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

MBNL's IT Architect role in Reading is a hybrid position with at least two days per week in the Central Reading office. You will provide architectural oversight across domains, ensuring secure, scalable solutions that align with MBNL’s strategy and digital ambitions, while collaborating with stakeholders and suppliers to bridge strategy and delivery.

You’ll develop architecture principles, governance frameworks, and roadmaps; review supplier designs; apply security and privacy controls; and help

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise, solution, or technology architecture roles.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks and principles.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, integration architectures, APIs, and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, IT teams, and suppliers to align technology solutions to business goals.
• Support the development and evolution of enterprise architecture across business, application, data, and technology domains.
• Support technology strategy, portfolio planning, roadmaps, and investment decisions through architectural insight and understanding of industry frameworks.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Provide architecture assurance and challenge solution designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Apply security, resilience, integration, data governance, and privacy principles throughout solution designs.
• Support architecture governance forums and provide recommendations on risks, trade-offs, and opportunities.
• Review and question supplier architecture deliverables and design quality
• Monitor emerging technologies and best practices and recommend innovation opportunities that deliver business value
• Support the definition of supplier contracts and the management of suppliers in-life
• Work with Cyber‑Security, Data, Digital Enablement, Operations, and Delivery teams to turn business demand into effective technology change
• Promote best practice, continuous improvement, and alignment to MBNL’s enterprise architecture vision

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Solution architecture

Technology architecture

Cloud platforms

APIs

Data platforms

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

MBNL's IT Architect role in Reading is a hybrid position with at least two days per week in the Central Reading office. You will provide architectural oversight across domains, ensuring secure, scalable solutions that align with MBNL’s strategy and digital ambitions, while collaborating with stakeholders and suppliers to bridge strategy and delivery.

You’ll develop architecture principles, governance frameworks, and roadmaps; review supplier designs; apply security and privacy controls; and help