Senior Architects

Axiologik; Leeds; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health cover

Pension

Holiday allowance

Learning & development funding

Volunteer days

EV car scheme

Job summary

Axiologik is seeking a Senior Architect in Leeds to lead complex, multi-client architecture engagements. You will shape strategic outcomes, guide technology selections, and collaborate with high-level stakeholders to deliver value across AI/ML, cloud, and data domains.

The role emphasizes consulting leadership, enterprise architecture alignment with business priorities, and involvement in bids and client conversations, with onsite office attendance in Leeds.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior architect in multi-client consulting environments.
• Strong outcomes-focused consulting and technology leadership.
• Knowledge of CRM, ERP, IDAM and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Experience delivering agile, product- and platform-centric delivery.
• Data practitioner level experience, technical or strategic.
• Background in AI/ML/LLMs with relevant certifications.
• Enterprise architecture aligning to business priorities.
• Experience in regulated or critical infrastructure contexts.
• Contributing to bids/pre-sales and client proposals.
• Degree or professional qualifications relevant to domain.

Responsibilities

• Provide consulting analysis and architecture for complex solutions.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to choose delivery approaches.
• Deliver state assessments, options, roadmaps and target architectures.
• Lead technology selection and create platform-level roadmaps.
• Produce models describing architectures for broad audiences.
• Communicate value delivery clearly and simplify complex challenges.
• Ensure security, regulatory and compliance needs are met.
• Understand priorities and craft architectures that fit needs.
• Balance technical, financial and operational factors in plans.
• Support architecture practice development and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Senior architect experience

Consulting architecture

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Agile / product delivery

Data practitioner

AI/ML/LLMs

Enterprise Architecture

Pre-sales / bids

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Degree education or professional qualifications

Tools

AWS

Azure

CRM

ERP

IDAM

Job description

Salary: £61,000 - 101,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience operating as a Senior Solution Architect, Senior Technical Architect, Senior Data Architect, or Lead Architect in a consulting or multi-client context
• Deep expertise in consulting architecture and technology lead roles, with delivered client outcomes
• Working knowledge of industry-standard software packages or SaaS offerings such as CRM, ERP, and IDAM, and cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
• Experience of agile, product, and platform-centric delivery, including environments that work to improve flow
• Experience as a data practitioner, at either a technical or strategic level
• Experience designing and delivering solutions across AI, ML, and LLMs, with corresponding certifications
• Experience as an Enterprise Architect, defining and agreeing digital, data, and technology strategies aligned to business priorities
• Exposure to regulated, safety-critical, or critical national infrastructure environments
• Experience contributing to bids, pre‑sales, or client proposals
• Degree education and/or professional qualifications and accreditations relevant to your domain expertise

Responsibilities:

• Provide consulting analysis and advice, and develop system architecture for complex solutions
• Work consultatively with senior business and technology stakeholders to help them choose the best way to deliver their priorities
• Deliver defined consulting outcomes, including current state assessments, options appraisals, target architectures, and roadmaps
• Lead technology selection and create technology roadmaps at platform or system level
• Produce articulate models describing architectures and solutions for a wide stakeholder audience
• Break down complex challenges and communicate a simple route to value delivery in a transparent and accessible way
• Ensure client security, regulatory, and compliance needs are met throughout
• Work with key business stakeholders to understand priorities and requirements and produce architectural designs that meet those needs
• Navigate technical, financial, and operational factors and incorporate these into thinking, proposals, risks, decisions, and plans
• Make the case for change, setting out costs, benefits, trade‑offs, and risks clearly
• Coach and mentor architects and technical designers, working closely with delivery teams to realise designs
• Review and assure architecture and design produced by client teams and third parties, providing independent findings and clear recommendations
• Agree and work to clear objectives, ensuring outcomes are delivered
• Adapt your approach to complex, challenging, and low‑clarity environments
• Transfer knowledge and build capability so clients can carry the work forward without us
• Support the development of services for the Architecture practice
• Collaborate across our business on new offerings, representing the practice in cross‑functional teams
• Support new business development and contribute to commercial bids and early client conversations
• Contribute to re‑usable intellectual property
• Build strong relationships with suppliers, partners, and colleagues across our business
• Participate in industry forums and events to expand knowledge
• Seek to develop your technical skill set through certification and other development opportunities

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• CRM
• ERP
• Flow
• Support
• Security

More:

We are Axiologik, an experience‑led consultancy that consults, advises, builds capability, supports acceleration of change, and makes digital transformation continuous and sustainable. Our Architecture practice brings together consulting practitioners with expertise across a variety of domains, technologies, and business sectors, and our team also works in user‑centric design, product and platform‑centric agile delivery, and AI‑enabled engineering. We are a growing, inclusive business with a DE&I‑focused hiring process and a culture that values difference. We are B Corp certified and recognised by Best Companies. This Senior Architect role starts from £81,000 depending on experience and includes a wide range of benefits such as private health cover, wellbeing support, bonus, pension, holiday allowance, learning and development funding, volunteer days, an EV car scheme, referral schemes, and recognition rewards. The role is based around our central Leeds office, with onsite attendance 1 to 2 times per week and some travel to client sites, and our interview process is two stages.