Senior Manager, Tooling Architect, Engineering Platforms in Edinburgh

This role sits within Deloitte's Engineering Platforms team — part of our Business Technology offering within Technology & Transformation. We design, build, and operate the cloud platforms, automation capabilities, and AI-enabling technologies that underpin Deloitte's managed services and digital solutions across the firm.

As Deloitte continues to adopt new tools, SaaS platforms, and AI-driven capabilities to support our practitioners, the Tooling Architect plays a vital strategic role. This position leads the end-to-end design required to introduce new tooling into the firm's technology ecosystem — ensuring every solution is secure, operable, value-driven, and aligned with Deloitte policies, risk frameworks, and strategic architecture standards.

The Tooling Architect helps make complex technology decisions straightforward for the organisation by defining how tools are consumed, operated, governed, and integrated. This role ensures we adopt the right tools in the right way — enabling innovation at scale across Deloitte NSE.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the full architecture and design process for onboarding new tools into Deloitte's NSE environment, ensuring compliance with firm standards, risk controls, and technical strategies.
• Own the end-to-end tooling design including service model, consumption model, integration approach, support model, pricing structure, licensing considerations, and deployment methodology.
• Conduct architectural assessments to determine feasibility, risks, data flows, integration needs, and alignment with Deloitte technology principles.
• Engage with Infosec, Risk, Privacy, Legal, Procurement, Architecture Review Boards, and IT operations to negotiate and define what elements of the tool can be deployed and under what controls.
• Develop secure deployment patterns, ensuring tools align with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Define operational support requirements including onboarding, incident flows, monitoring, access models, roles, responsibilities, and SLAs.
• Produce high-quality architectural artefacts including solution designs, risk assessments, architecture decisions, cost models, and implementation guidance.
• Lead conversations with vendors to understand licences, pricing models, integration capabilities, security posture, and roadmap.
• Work with finance and procurement to define clear and scalable commercial models.
• Partner with Engineering Platforms delivery teams to support implementation, testing, and integration tasks.
• Collaborate with product management and service introduction teams to ensure tools are successfully rolled out, communicated, and adopted.
• Act as a design authority during implementation, ensuring alignment with approved architecture and security requirements.
• Provide SME support to operations teams during early adoption or complex troubleshooting scenarios.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Deloitte's tooling adoption framework, architecture patterns, and governance standards.

Connect to your skills and professional experience:

• Significant experience in technology architecture, solution design, or enterprise integration roles within large organisations.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end lifecycle for adopting new software tools — from assessment and design through to deployment and operational readiness.
• Ability to evaluate SaaS, on-premise, AI-driven, and desktop tools from both technical and business perspectives.
• Strong working knowledge of security principles, risk frameworks, data protection, and secure architecture patterns.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, confident working with senior leaders across Cyber, Risk, Legal, IT, Procurement, and Engineering.
• Experience designing integration patterns across modern enterprise ecosystems (API-driven architectures, identity integration, eventing, logging, monitoring).
• Strong commercial awareness, able to evaluate licensing structures, pricing models, and TCO.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, able to produce clear architectural artefacts and explain complex concepts in a business-friendly way.
• Ability to own a design through implementation and work collaboratively with delivery teams to ensure successful execution.
• Proactive, organised, and comfortable managing multiple tooling designs and vendor engagements simultaneously.
• Experience in professional services, managed services, or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with AI platforms, cloud-native toolchains, and modern developer tooling ecosystems.
• Understanding of procurement processes, vendor management, and commercial negotiation.
• Background in service design, service transition, or operational architecture.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience in Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.

Our hybrid working policy: You'll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy.

Our commitment to you: Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.