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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Service Architect - **Company:** AtkinsRéalis - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Design, Togaf, Information Technology - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://slihrms.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/GBLondonNova-North/Service-Architect_R-162636 ## About the Role * Articulate with a passion for supporting and driving digital change. * Persuasive and politically astute; able to collaborate with and positively influence stakeholders. * Strategic enterprise and business awareness; able to identify a client's strategic intent and create enabling service architectures. * Ability to analyse, collate, structure and organise data to find the best service solution to ensure manageability and maintainability. * Good general consulting skills (structured thinking, effective report writing and presentations, and strong stakeholder engagement). * Highly developed soft skills; leadership, collaboration, inclusion, diversity, equality and a people first attitude. * Familiarity with additional frameworks or standards related to subject matter area (i.e. ISO 2000, VeriSM, COBIT, TOGAF, IT4IT & SIAM models with complex support infrastructure and supply chain). ## Description * Contribute to win work: understand requirements, lead and support proposal development in relation to both internal and external customer demand. Deliver increased awareness of, engagement with, and adoption of Service Management capabilities across AtkinsRéalis and our customers. * Manage client relationships: maintain positive relationships with both internal and external customers, understanding their needs and ensure they are met. Provide regular updates on task and service performance and respond to customer enquiries and concerns. * Subject Matter Expertise: Responsible for providing advisory services across the whole range of Service Management, Service Architecture and Service Design both internally and to our customers. * Service Assurance: Responsible for providing assurance to new service architectures and designs. Able to undertake assurance of existing service practices, processes and capabilities. * Technical and Team Leadership: Able to lead team with mixed responsibilities including members from our customers and partner organisations; providing coaching, mentoring, pastoral care and technical leadership, in a service management / architecture environment. About you * Specialisation in assessing design needs across the service portfolio, providing guidance across all services, and ensuring service standards are designed and delivered in alignment with business needs. * Expertise in creating high quality roadmaps and plans in relation to the full-service portfolio, tracking and reporting to stakeholders on changes and progress. * Evidence of producing service case studies and having published some relevant papers/articles or delivered talks. * Background in ownership of service performance and health data, identification of performance issues, completion of root cause analyses, driving identification of remediations and implementation of fixes. * Proficiency in monitoring service performance, identifying underlying trends and working at a mid-organisational level to identify & implement creative solutions to remediate issues. * Comprehensive understanding of the ITIL framework, ideally ITIL4 Practice Manager qualified. ## Related Videos - [Building Well-Architected applications](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/691-building-well-architected-applications) - [Enabling intelligent logistics automation: home-grown Industrial IoT platform at Austrian Post](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2018-enabling-intelligent-logistics-automation-home-grown-industrial-iot-platform-at-austrian-post) - [What If We Designed Employee Experience Like a Customer Journey?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1824-what-if-we-designed-employee-experience-like-a-customer-journey) - [Design as an algorithm, not as a feature](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/471-design-as-an-algorithm-not-as-a-feature) - [We (don't) need a software architect!?!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/663-we-don-t-need-a-software-architect) - [It's not easy being green](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/558-it-s-not-easy-being-green) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Best Companies to work for in London: Top 25 Companies in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/187-best-companies-to-work-for-in-london-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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