Vehicle Architecture Lead - Systems & Integration

McLaren; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren is seeking an experienced leader to drive the Vehicle Architecture program, defining the vehicle-level architecture and governance across domains including network topology, ECU allocation, diagnostics, and power distribution. This role partners with domain functions, infrastructure, validation and external partners to ensure coherent, production-ready system solutions.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership at key interface boundaries, ensuring artefacts, tooling and

Qualifications

• Leads the Vehicle Architecture team and defines the vehicle-level architecture.
• Defines the architectural framework covering network topology, ECU allocation, diagnostics, and power distribution.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership and decision-making at key interface boundaries.
• Ensures artefacts, systems engineering tooling, methods and governance are coherent and aligned to programme timing, quality, cost and integration objectives.

Skills

Systems engineering

Architecture governance

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

McLaren is seeking an experienced leader to drive the Vehicle Architecture program, defining the vehicle-level architecture and governance across domains including network topology, ECU allocation, diagnostics, and power distribution. This role partners with domain functions, infrastructure, validation and external partners to ensure coherent, production-ready system solutions.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership at key interface boundaries, ensuring artefacts, tooling and