IT Application Architect

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore and implement new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. They maintain the tech that keeps us advancing by testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions.

In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also:

• Lead the design and architecture of stream specific applications so they adhere to the overall organisational goals, principles and standards as well as industry best practices.
• Design and implement integrations that enable seamless data and process flow between departmental systems, core organisation solutions (ERP, CMS, etc) and within the wider data and application landscape while ensuring interoperability between applications.
• Analyse existing business processes and workflows, identifying opportunities for optimisation and collaborating with business and IT teams to implement improvements.
• Advocate for a cohesive, enterprise-wide approach to technology investments that supports scalability, cost-efficiency, and long-term alignment with business goals.
• Ensure that agreed best practices, governance standards, and legal and regulatory compliance requirements across the technology ecosystem are followed.
• Work with security, governance and product teams to implement security best practices and ensure regulatory compliance within applications.
• Document all application architecture design and analysis work.
• Ensure technology and delivery approaches are aligned between delivery teams and with the overall IT and Architecture strategies.
• Represent BDO UK, Stream and IT interests when working with the BDO Network and 3rd party suppliers.
• Identify the organisational impact and financial impact of the application architecture.
• Ensure that IT Architecture is recognised as a valuable asset to BDO.

You’ll be someone with:

• Proven experience of working as an Application Architect delivering successful greenfield and migration projects in a product orientated organisation.
• Experience in designing and deploying products utilising vendor-hosted SaaS platforms and Azure PaaS resources.
• Proficiency in integration tools and technologies (e.g., APIs, ESBs, iPaaS) and familiarity with cloud and hybrid architectures.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and data governance best practices in an enterprise setting.
• Demonstrated ability in technology partner management practices including the ability to lead vendors/partners in defining architectures.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, including presentation skills, to a range of audiences.
• Excellent analytical and technical skills.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Strong understanding of practice management software systems (e.g., CMS, ERP, Finance, and Marketing automation tools) and their integration points advantageous.

We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand. At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths.