Lead Software Architect

About the job

Owns the architecture function for the Technology Division. Sets the division-wide technical direction the target architecture, the technology radar, the non-functional envelopes (performance, cost, security, reliability) that every system must live inside and holds the Software Architects accountable to it. Where the Software Architect governs how code is written, the Lead Software Architect governs what gets built, how systems fit together, and which architectural bets the division makes. Does not write code. Owns the Architect agent and is accountable for the quality of every architecture artefact the agent produces across all domain teams — system designs, integration contracts, data…