Architecture Manager / Senior Manager

About Baringa:
We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.


Our Technology practice are looking for an experienced Architecture Manager / Senior Manager to join the team.

In Technology, we focus on the skills, capabilities and offerings to help define, drive, and support Technology led and enabled change. We have extensive experience in the strategic development, design, delivery and assurance of substantial IT transformation across financial services, energy, commodities, utilities, telecoms and government. Our skilled IT specialists become trusted advisors, acting impartially of all IT providers, delivering significant value to our clients. We are looking for more great individuals to join our Architecture practice, one of the core capabilities in Technology, with a passion for technology and a drive to help our clients deliver more complex and demanding business change. In our Architecture practice we focus on the skills, capabilities and offerings required to provide the perfect balance of innovation, pace and control in technology enabled change. Our focus is on the delivery of value and as such we work on our client’s most complex and highest return challenges. Delivery of commodity or ivory tower architecture is not where we play. We see strong demand in the market for pragmatic, delivery focussed architects who are capable of leading teams in agile working environments. As such we offer training in Agile architecture skills alongside a grounding in modern digital technologies; cloud, microservices, containerisation, distributed ledgers, low code and robotic automation solutions, to name a few. We use this mix of agility, deep technical expertise and pragmatism to help our clients build an enduring architecture capability as well as supporting them to deliver their most complex challenges. Maximising business value for our clients through the definition and delivery of effective and robust technology architectures is our core offering.

 

What you will be doing
 

• Exceed client expectations by maximising business value through the delivery of effective and robust technology architectures
• Develop our thinking through horizon scanning and research in modern digital technologies, such as cloud, microservices, containerisation, distributed ledgers, low code and robotic automation solutions
• Help organisations to set up their architecture functions, capabilities and governance
• Lead assurance projects which focus on reviewing in-flight programmes and advising on remediations
• Act as a trusted advisor to CTOs and CIOs, providing pragmatic solutions to their most complex problems and supporting the evolution of their IT estate to meet their business strategy
• Involve yourself in a wide range of architecture projects, from defining Technology Strategies through to leading transformations, vendor selection and implementation
• Be fungible across delivery and strategy, adapting to support other technical areas of the business when needed
• Engage regularly with a wide range of stakeholders across all levels, communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Help us grow our Baringa architecture practise internally, developing and delivering training, sharing your knowledge and experience and supporting the creation of business development materials

Your skills and experience
 

• A passion to build a career in technology, demonstrated by choice in academic qualifications, self-learning or hobbies and interests
• Experience of implementing technology solutions and architectures and a strong delivery focus
• Experience in both enterprise and solution architecture, translating strategy into deliverable target architectures and roadmaps, as well as designing and assuring solutions to achieve the strategy
• Broad experience across Architecture Domains (Business, Application, Integration, Data, Infrastructure and Security), with SME knowledge in one or more domains
• Cloud computing experience across XaaS offerings with knowledge of cloud native offerings and how to leverage them in cloud and hybrid solutions
• The ability to take ownership of projects, sell work and deliver results
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain the complex in simple terms, concisely and with clarity
• Experience of managing stakeholders from C-suite through to engineering, and a desire to build enduring relationships
• Desire to collaborate and work with others to get the best outcomes for our clients
• An interest in helping to build and develop our capabilities, thought leadership and offerings

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.
Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.
You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.
We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.