Senior Architect Account and Identity

Cardiff, G , CF10 1FT

| Glasgow, G , G511DA

| London, G , W1A 1AA

| Newcastle-upon-Tyne, G , NE991RN

| Salford, G , M50 2QH

JOBBAND:

D

CONTRACT TYPE:

Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT:

BBC Product Group

LOCATION:

London, Glasgow, Salford, Newcastle, Cardiff

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE:

Include salary range including currency icon e.g. £64,000 - £96,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Our audiences’ expectations of digital media have shifted dramatically. They live in a culture of interactivity, sharing and feedback, where participation is as valuable as the content itself. Stories are no longer broadcast; they evolve through the dialogue and engagement of the digital community who consume them.

Bringing people together is central to the BBC’s Value for All strategy, but at the moment, our services can often feel passive and closed. By not enabling dialogue and contribution, we risk being left behind as other platforms become the spaces where audiences gather, share and connect.

The BBC’s User Engagement team is responsible for owning the above problem space and managing user participatory capabilities such as Commenting, Moderation of User Generated Content, Quizzing, Polling and Voting.

We are looking for a Senior Architect to help expand the BBC’s ability to integrate new capabilities into the BBC’s online platforms. You will, amongst other things, be responsible for developing approaches for standardising the way experiences can be integrated with the BBC’s services across web, mobile, TV and Smart Speaker platforms. You will also assume responsibility for some of the existing portfolio of capabilities as well as for governance and security of those services.

Our core environment is AWS utilising a range of common services such as EC2, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, Dynamo

DB, RDS etc.

This is a role that will see you embedded in cross‑functional teams operating within the Product Operating Model, working with other specialists to discover and deliver the best solutions for the emerging problems in the user engagement space. You will be fully empowered in a technical leadership role to ensure the team follows architecture best practice and delivers strategic solutions that reach millions of audience members.

We want the BBC to be as renowned for the quality of its engineering as it is for the quality of its content. This role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, on systems of national scale and impact, shaping the future of participation and interactivity at the BBC.

• Contribute towards the wider Account & Identity Architecture Strategy and drive the development and adoption of the Architecture Statements within User Engagement.
• Understand the major gaps and challenges in the domain and develop a target architecture to address these; along with detailed designs for the individual solutions which move us in the right direction.
• The User Engagement space is one in which we have many external partners. You will be responsible for communicating our technical requirements and vision to these partners to ensure we continue to innovate and improve our services.
• Accountable for architectural decisions; embedding oversight into cross‑functional teams and documenting choices through ADRs.
• Provide architectural support across the BBC ecosystem, ensuring technical coherence, managing dependencies and minimising complexity.
• Champion patterns, best practices, and evolutionary design approaches to deliver secure, robust and repeatable solutions.
• Listening to business challenges and priorities and communicating an architecture vision/approach clearly to all stakeholders which can assist in solving these.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven architecture experience designing high‑volume,…