Architecture Manager

Job Description

Architecture Manager

• Lead and shape the Solution Architecture capability across the enterprise


• Manage and develop a high-performing team aligned to a product-based operating model


• Hybrid working – 80% from home, 20% based in Stratford-upon-Avon

About the role

We are looking for a Architecture Manager to lead the Solution Architecture capability at NFU Mutual. This role is accountable for setting clear direction across solution architecture delivery, ensuring consistent standards, strong governance, and practical alignment with business and technology strategy.

As we continue our transition towards a more product-based organisation, this role will be instrumental in evolving how architecture operates, embedding architects within product teams, supporting empowered decision-making, and ensuring solutions are designed holistically across platforms, systems, data, and integrations.

You will lead and develop a team of Solution Architects, balancing strategic oversight with hands-on engagement. The focus is on how we shape and deliver end-to-end solutions that resolve business problems effectively, sustainably, and in line with our target architecture.

Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across business and technology, you will ensure solution architectures are pragmatic, scalable, secure, and aligned to enterprise standards. You will also play a key role in modernising ways of working, strengthening architectural governance within a product-centric model, and embedding good solution architecture practices across programmes, products, and change initiatives.

Alongside people leadership and governance accountability, you will remain close enough to delivery to provide hands-on architectural support where needed, particularly on complex, high-risk, or strategically significant initiatives.

About you

You are an experienced Solution Architect ready to take on or expand a leadership role. Whether you're already managing teams or guiding multiple domains, you combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery expertise. You can turn business challenges into practical solutions, balancing ideal architectures with real-world constraints. Skilled at influencing senior stakeholders and shaping direction in complex environments, you drive architecture that evolves within product-led organisations, enabling faster decisions and better alignment. Most importantly, you excel at building effective teams, embedding efficient practices, and ensuring solution architecture drives meaningful change.

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

• Salary – Up to £105,000 depending on experience


• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Private medical insurance + options to add family members


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.


• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.