Architecture Practice Manager

Farringdon, London (6 days per month onsite)

Toyota Connected Europe wants to create a better world through connected mobility for all. We are a new company created to bring big data and a customer focus into all aspects of the mobility experience, so everyone’s experience is more personal, convenient, fun and safe. We create and enable technologies to delight and simplify the lives of everyone who use our products and empower them to think of and use our services in new ways.

You will be joining us at the beginning of Toyota Connected Europe’s journey of building our team and products. We are building teams to inspire, innovate and build technologies and products that are used by millions of people from all walks of life. We want every member of our team to live and breathe the start‑up culture of Toyota Connected Europe and feel and act like an owner everyday.

This is an opportunity to have an immediate impact and voice: what you create today, you will see being used tomorrow.

We are seeking an experienced manager to lead our Solution Architecture practice. This role combines hands‑on technical design work with leadership, governance, stakeholder management and team line management. You will be accountable for ensuring a coherent, scalable and high‑quality architecture across complex, multi‑stream initiatives, whilst aligning with European and global direction.

You will play a critical role in shaping the long‑term technical vision and ensuring that architecture enables business strategy, operational excellence and product innovation.

• Lead and evolve the solution architecture practice across the organization.
• Coordinate project‑level solutions to create a single, coherent design for Toyota’s connected data services.
• Ensure architecture processes are consistently followed, and outputs are of high and consistent quality.
• Contribute directly to complex, high‑risk or strategically important initiatives.
• Establish and maintain policies, principles and practices for the selection and integration of architecture components.

• Facilitate and lead technical governance forums including Solution Design Reviews and Architecture Review Boards.
• Ensure architectural decisions are transparent, traceable and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Maintain and continuously improve architecture templates, design artefacts and reusable reference materials.
• Develop and manage a structured architecture repository/library to support consistency and knowledge sharing.
• Use modelling techniques (e.g. capability maps, system context models, data flows, integration landscapes) to improve stakeholder understanding of connected systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance through enhancements in Technology platforms, Information and data practices, Business processes & Organisational design and operating models.

• Maintain strong working relationships with other Toyota entities across Europe and globally within the architecture domain.
• Ensure EU connected systems integrate coherently into the broader European and global technology landscape.
• Promote collaboration, transparency and shared architectural vision across organizational boundaries.

• Provide operational direction, coaching and support to Solution Architects and related roles.
• Set clear quality, performance and capability targets aligned with business goals.
• Monitor individual and team performance, providing regular feedback and development guidance.
• Encourage continuous skill development aligned with both team capability needs and individual career goals.
• Adjust workload and capacity to balance delivery commitments with professional growth.

• Significant experience in Solution Architecture leadership within complex, distributed systems environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration, cloud‑native architectures, APIs, data platforms and connected systems.
• Demonstrate…