Remote Technical Architect – Enterprise Solutions Lead

Consult; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 115,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Consult is seeking a Technical Architect to ensure that architectural decisions align with business and IT strategies. You will lead application architecture activities for transitioned services, run workshops with diverse teams, and validate supportability and operational readiness across the engagement.

The role focuses on governance, risk management, and ensuring robust documentation for secure, resilient service delivery within a complex managed environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading design and delivery of scalable enterprise solutions.
• Deep Microsoft ecosystem expertise and strong leadership.
• Proven ability to manage architecture governance across transitions.

Responsibilities

• Lead application architecture discovery and due diligence for transitioned services.
• Conduct architecture workshops with owners, SMEs, infrastructure, security, and ops teams.
• Assess architecture, integrations, security controls, resilience, DR, and BC capabilities.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts: dependency maps, supportability assessments, risk registers, transition reports.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt and operational dependencies impacting service transition or support.
• Define remediation actions and transition exit criteria for service acceptance.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders, incumbents and internal teams to document dependencies and knowledge transfer.
• Document ownership models, escalation paths, recovery responsibilities, and support boundaries for service design.
• Ensure architecture and operational documentation are aligned for managed service operations.
• Provide architectural governance throughout transition, onboarding and service acceptance.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Microsoft ecosystem

Architecture workshops

Stakeholder management

Security controls

Disaster recovery

Identity management

APIs and integrations

Service transition

Operational readiness

Job description

Consult is seeking a Technical Architect to ensure that architectural decisions align with business and IT strategies. You will lead application architecture activities for transitioned services, run workshops with diverse teams, and validate supportability and operational readiness across the engagement.

The role focuses on governance, risk management, and ensuring robust documentation for secure, resilient service delivery within a complex managed environment.