Lead Architect

YTL Live is the operating company behind some of the UK's most exciting upcoming entertainment destinations, including the 20,000-capacity Aviva Arena, the historic Spitfire Hangar and the YTL Live Entertainment District at Brabazon.  

Opening in early 2029, Aviva Arena will be at the heart of a 365-day entertainment district. Technology is integral to opening the venue safely and successfully, delivering outstanding customer and event experiences and enabling the commercial ambitions of YTL Live.  

As our new Lead Architect, you will lead the architecture and technical design of the technology required to build, open and operate YTL Live venues, ensuring venue, customer, commercial, operational, data and corporate technologies form a secure, integrated, resilient and supportable architecture.  

What You'll Do 

• Lead the technology architecture strategy for YTL Live, defining the target architecture, roadmap and standards while ensuring technology supports operational excellence, customer experience, commercial performance and future growth.
• Own end-to-end solution design across infrastructure, networks, cloud services, business applications, ticketing, digital platforms, payments, data, cyber security and operational technology, ensuring all systems work together seamlessly
• Provide architecture governance and assurance, reviewing and approving technology solutions, managing technical risks and debt, and driving standards that deliver secure, scalable and supportable services
• Embed security, resilience and operational readiness into all technology decisions, ensuring solutions are designed, tested and commissioned to support critical venue operations and live event environments
• Lead supplier engagement and procurement activities, defining technical requirements, evaluating solutions, assuring design quality and managing architecture-related risks throughout delivery.
• Develop technical capability and stakeholder relationships, providing leadership and mentoring to architecture resources, building strong partnerships across YTL Live and the wider Group, and communicating complex technical decisions to a range of audiences. 

What You'll Need  

In this varied role, you will need: 

• substantial experience leading architecture in a complex technology environment
• previous experience in an arena, live venue, stadium, major entertainment venue or comparable live-event environment is essential
• experience designing integrated technology across venue, customer, commercial and corporate systems
• experience of technology selection, procurement, implementation, integration, testing, commissioning and operational handover
• strong knowledge of solution, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud and security architecture
• experience leading design governance and decisions across multiple programmes and suppliers
• experience in high-availability environments where service failure has an immediate customer, safety, operational or commercial effect
• strong stakeholder-management, communication and influencing skills
• experience managing and developing architecture professionals
• relevant architecture qualification, such as TOGAF or equivalent, is desirable.  

What you'll receive

• A combined pension contribution of up to 20%.
• Career progression and professional development opportunities.
• 25 days' holiday rising to 28 with length of service.
• The opportunity to sell up to five days of holiday every year.
• The opportunity to buy up to ten days of holiday each year (subject to conditions).
• A healthcare package that allows you to claim back healthcare costs.
• Life assurance of up to eight times your salary.
• The opportunity to lease a new electric car through salary sacrifice (subject to conditions).
• Cashback and discounts from more than 3,000 retailers.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and pay arrangements.
• Access to an interactive health and wellbeing platform.
• Support from trained mental health first aiders.
• A £1,000 referral fee if you recommend someone who is successfully recruited by us. 

Who we are

YTL UK is part of the international YTL Group based in Kuala Lumpur. The UK companies include:

• Wessex Water – one of the top-performing water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, serving 2.9 million people across the South West
• YTL Developments – a major UK developer currently redeveloping a 450-acre former airfield into an award-winning