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Principal Strategy – Architecture Lead
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United Kingdom
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5 days ago
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Job Description
Principal Strategy – Architecture Lead
Phoenix Software Limited
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders, providing strategic guidance across technology, digital, and organisational change initiatives • Lead the development of enterprise, digital, and technology strategies, aligning business objectives with architectural direction • Define and shape strategic roadmaps, ensuring clear prioritisation, sequencing, and delivery feasibility • Provide enterprise and security architecture leadership, setting direction, standards, and best practice across complex environments • Facilitate executive workshops and stakeholder engagements to support decision-making, alignment, and consensus building • Design and shape target operating models that enable organisational transformation and improved service outcomes • Support business case development and investment planning, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and value realisation • Establish and contribute to governance forums, providing oversight, challenge, and assurance on key decisions and programmes • Lead or support transformation planning and mobilisation, ensuring initiatives are set up for successful delivery • Conduct independent reviews and assurance activities to identify risk, provide insight, and improve delivery confidence • Provide thought leadership across strategy, architecture, and assurance disciplines within customer engagements and internally • Collaborate across Phoenix teams to support business development, bids, and the growth of the ESAA capability • Contribute to the development of ESAA methodologies, frameworks, and propositions • Build strong, trusted relationships across customer organisations and wider stakeholders • Help customers navigate complexity, reduce risk, and achieve successful, sustainable outcomes
Job Requirements
- Proven experience influencing strategy, architecture, or transformation in complex environments
- Strong understanding across areas such as enterprise strategy, technology, cyber security, and architecture
- Ability to engage and build credibility with senior stakeholders and executive teams
- Skilled at translating complex challenges into clear, practical direction
- Experience providing governance, assurance, and constructive challenge
- Strong analytical thinking and sound decision-making capability
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Ability to lead through influence and build strong, collaborative relationships
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and balancing strategic vision with delivery realities
- Public sector experience desirable
Benefits
- A culture built on trust and belonging: set out clearly in our Culture Blueprint, lived day-to-day, and reflected in our consistently strong colleague feedback.
- Real investment in your development: structured learning pathways, funded industry certifications, mentoring, and the encouragement to stretch into new areas.
- A workplace that takes wellbeing seriously: from mental health support and flexible working to active employee networks and a leadership team that listens.
- A commitment to equity and inclusion: where we actively work to make Phoenix a brilliant place to build a career, whoever you are.
- Work that matters: supporting the public sector organisations that keep the UK running, from government and healthcare to defence, public safety, education, housing, and the charities serving the most vulnerable in our communities.
- Working with the best of the industry: alongside genuine experts, and with strategic partnerships across the world's leading technology providers, you'll be at the front of the conversations shaping how UK public services modernise.
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