Principal Strategy – Architecture Lead

Phoenix Software Limited

Principal Strategy & Architecture Lead providing strategic architecture expertise for public sector transformations at Phoenix. Guiding organisations across technology and digital change initiatives in a trusted advisory role.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

Strategic Roadmap DevelopmentEnterprise Architecture LeadershipTransformation PlanningRisk IdentificationInvestment Planning

Soft Skills

Influencing SkillsCommunication SkillsFacilitation SkillsRelationship BuildingDecision-Making Capability