Director of IT Architecture and Quality Engineering

Quick Facts

• Role: Director of IT Architecture and Quality Engineering

Description

The Director leads the IT Architecture and Quality Engineering transversal function as the Design Authority for the entire IT organization, ensuring a coherent and evolvable architectural landscape across all domains (including shadow IT). The role establishes architecture guardrails and decision frameworks, aligns architecture across domains for interoperability, and drives “One IT” Quality Engineering practices—promoting automation, reliability, and observability. It shapes the architectural strategy, standards, and management practices to enable reusable, platform-based solutions and efficient delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own holistic IT architecture across all domains, including shadow IT

• Define architecture guardrails and decision frameworks; run focused reviews for high-risk and cross-domain changes

• Coordinate and align architecture across domains to ensure interoperability and consistency

• Lead “One IT” Quality Engineering practices for internal and external systems

• Plan and implement architectural strategy, vision, objectives, and technology development directions

• Create and maintain IT solution architecture aligned to long-term business and technology visions

• Identify business potential and collaborate with business partners to create innovative architectural solutions

• Provide substantive oversight of architectural consistency across projects and technology changes

• Analyze and optimize technology solutions, including technical debt reduction and efficiency improvements

• Define and continuously improve architecture management practices (project reviews, technology assessments)

• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and data units to ensure integrated and consistent solutions

• Define and evolve pragmatic architecture standards and guardrails to enable reuse of platform building blocks

• Build and lead an architecture guild to foster collaboration, pragmatic standards, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

• Proven track record of leadership and management at director level in enterprise architecture (or related discipline)

• Experience managing organizational change and driving digital transformation initiatives

• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture practices; experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems; exposure to telecom environments and/or composable, API-first architecture approaches

• Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, GCP and hybrid/multi-cloud strategies

• Strong understanding of microservices architectures, API management, and modern integration patterns

• Expertise in cybersecurity architecture, data architecture, and infrastructure design

• Knowledge of legacy modernization and modern application development approaches

• Familiarity with AI/ML, containerisation, DevOps practices, and emerging technology trends

• Strategic thinking, cross-functional initiative management, and executive-level communication

• Fluent English

Optional

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks or certifications (applied pragmatically)

• Experience establishing or evolving a Design Authority / architecture governance model that balances consistency with team autonomy

• Familiarity with telecommunications-specific architecture patterns and OSS/BSS landscapes

Benefits

• Senior leadership role in a major IT transformation programme

• Direct reporting line to the CIO

• Collaborative, ambitious IT leadership team committed to building a world-class IT organization

• Competitive compensation package commensurate with seniority and scope of the role