Interim Chief Architect for Enterprise Transformation

Harvey Nash

Greater London

On-site

GBP 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Harvey Nash is supporting a global Transportation organisation in appointing a Chief Architect (Interim) to lead a pivotal digital and technology transformation. The role blends strategic vision with architecture leadership to enable business outcomes at scale.

You will modernise legacy environments, accelerate digital capabilities and embed scalable, future-ready foundations while guiding AI and emerging tech adoption across operations and customer-facing functions.

Qualifications

Proven senior technology leadership experience in a complex, global organisation.
Deep expertise across enterprise architecture and full‑stack engineering.
Strong understanding of cloud architectures, APIs, microservices and DevSecOps.
Experience leading architecture across application, data and infrastructure domains.

Responsibilities

Lead and own the end-to-end Architecture and Engineering strategy, aligned to wider business and technology objectives.
Provide leadership across enterprise, solution and platform architecture alongside software engineering teams.
Define and implement architecture standards, guardrails and governance, ensuring consistency across delivery.
Drive adoption of modern practices including cloud, DevSecOps, APIs, microservices and Agile delivery.
Establish and evolve foundational capabilities enabling product teams to innovate at speed.
Act as a senior decision-maker on technology direction, standards and strategic design.