Senior Architect

BDO; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore and implement new ideas that help us change the future of accounting, tax, and business consulting. They maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting future financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward. In an IT role at BDO, you’ll become part of a team that acts as the backbone for our business. We’ll give you the training and support you need to achieve whatever you put your mind to.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, which comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

In this busy and rewarding role you’ll:

• Act as the people manager for a team of IT architects, providing guidance, mentorship, and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team atmosphere, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.
• Agree workload prioritisation with relevant stakeholders and manage team allocation to deliver products/projects effectively.
• Facilitate training and development opportunities to enhance technical and professional skills.
• Lead in the ongoing development and maturity of the IT Architecture function.
• Provide technical leadership and governance for IT projects, ensuring adherence to organisation, vendor and regulatory best practices, standards and policies.
• Understand the BDO business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) to determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organisation's targeted business outcomes.
• Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Define the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure technology decisions are aligned with the organisation's future-state architecture vision.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable architectural designs.
• Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Engage with senior leadership and project stakeholders to articulate opportunities, costs, and risks associated with decisions made around the platform architecture and implementation.
• Provide strategic influence across streams, groups, projects, and products to implement cost-effective technology solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Ensure that IT Architecture is, and is recognised as, a valuable asset to BDO.

You’ll be someone with:

• Proven experience of working in IT, with a focus on architecture, solution design, and system implementation of migration/greenfield projects.
• Proven experience in IT Architecture roles with demonstrable success in designing and implementing enterprise-level solutions.
• Proven experience managing people, including performance reviews, coaching, and workload prioritisation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving collaboration between technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience with large-scale enterprise environments, including designing solutions for scalability, reliability, and security.
• Preferably, experience in industries where Microsoft technologies form the backbone of the IT environment.
• Demonstrable ability in technology partner management practices including the ability to lead vendors/partners in defining architectures.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• An understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture.
• The ability to work with developers in an in-and-out outsourced environment.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK, thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity, and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.