Platform Architecture Leader: Cloud, AI & Data Strategy

Schroders; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Equal opportunities employer

Job summary

Schroders is seeking an experienced Head of Platform Architecture in London for a 6-month temp role. You will lead architecture across Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure), Developer Platforms, the AI Platform, and Enterprise Data, driving standards, roadmaps and governance.

You will partner with senior stakeholders to deliver practical, secure architectural outcomes. You will define strategy, ensure integration across platforms, and mentor cross-functional teams while maintaining focus on resilience,

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading architecture across complex enterprise technology platforms.
• Broad architecture experience across AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including infrastructure, networking, security, resilience and governance.
• Strong understanding of developer platforms and practices, including GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and secure software delivery.
• Understanding of AI platforms and agentic application architectures, ideally including Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore.
• Proven experience shaping platform strategies, reference architectures, architectural principles, standards and multi-year roadmaps.
• Ability to understand complex and competing stakeholder requirements and translate them into coherent architectures and decisions.
• Proven ability to connect multiple technology domains, identify dependencies and drive integration and synergy.
• Strong technical leadership and influencing skills, with the credibility to challenge constructively and gain support for a clear vision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architecture clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams in a large, regulated enterprise.
• Strong understanding of security, risk, governance, operational resilience and cost considerations in platform architecture.
• Ability to move between strategic thinking and practical delivery, ensuring architecture supports measurable business and engineering outcomes.
• A collaborative leadership style with the ability to work across organisational boundaries and drive decisions to completion.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the platform architecture vision and principles across Enterprise Technology and the wider organisation.
• Lead the architecture of Cloud Platforms and infrastructure, Developer Platforms, the AI Platform and Superhighway, defining integration, interoperability and data access patterns with Enterprise Data while ensuring alignment with the Data Platform architecture.
• Ensure the Enterprise Technology platforms integrate effectively and operate as a coherent ecosystem.
• Understand business, engineering and stakeholder requirements and translate them into clear, practical architectures and roadmaps.
• Drive synergy and reuse between the platform pillars through shared patterns, capabilities and standards.
• Provide architectural leadership for AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including infrastructure, security, resilience and governance.
• Guide the architecture of agentic AI capabilities built on Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, with appropriate security, governance and operational controls.
• Guide the evolution of Superhighway as an agentic-enabled developer platform for professional and citizen developers.
• Partner with Enterprise Data leaders to ensure data architecture and platform capabilities align with the wider technology strategy.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, architecture teams, engineering teams, security, risk and delivery functions.
• Create and maintain clear architecture documentation, decision records, roadmaps and standards, and drive the agreed vision through to implementation.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

AWS

Azure

DevOps

Security governance

Communication

Architecture strategy

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Amazon Bedrock

AgentCore

Job description

Schroders is seeking an experienced Head of Platform Architecture in London for a 6-month temp role. You will lead architecture across Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure), Developer Platforms, the AI Platform, and Enterprise Data, driving standards, roadmaps and governance.

You will partner with senior stakeholders to deliver practical, secure architectural outcomes. You will define strategy, ensure integration across platforms, and mentor cross-functional teams while maintaining focus on resilience,