Burberry Architecture Practice Coordinator

About Burberry

Burberry Limited, a quintessentially British luxury fashion house, is renowned for its innovative designs and commitment to quality. As part of the global luxury conglomerate, Burberry offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where creativity and excellence are at the forefront. The company is dedicated to fostering a culture that encourages diversity and sustainability, making it a leader in the luxury industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Coordinate architecture governance forums, architecture reviews and standards boards, including scheduling, agendas, materials, minutes, decision records and follow-up actions.
• Maintain architecture governance artefacts, including decision logs, standards repositories, reference architecture materials, exceptions, waivers, review outcomes and supporting audit trails, keeping them current, accessible and consistently structured.
• Track architecture actions, exceptions, waivers and follow-ups; use constructive challenge and persuasive follow-through to progress agreed activities, escalating overdue or unresolved items to the relevant architect, forum owner or architecture leadership team where appropriate.
• Coordinate architecture input into the portfolio process, ensuring impact assessments, design reviews and checkpoints are scheduled and completed within agreed timescales.
• Maintain visibility of architecture demand across portfolio, programme, platform and domain-aligned teams, supporting the VP and architecture leadership team in identifying capacity constraints and prioritisation challenges.
• Track resource allocation across the architecture pool, including Enterprise Architects, Senior Solution Architects, Solution Architects and contingent architecture resources.
• Coordinate onboarding and administration for contingent architecture resources, including access, induction, allocation tracking and offboarding.
• Support the VP Strategy, Architecture & Data with practice planning, budget tracking, purchase orders, vendor administration and reporting inputs.
• Own and maintain architecture ways-of-working documentation, including templates, governance guidance, review processes, practice routines, naming conventions, version control and document ownership expectations.
• Coordinate internal communications and architecture community activities, including practice updates, knowledge-sharing sessions and brown bags.
• Support adoption of architecture documentation standards by working with architects and delivery teams to keep key materials current, accessible and consistently maintained.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a practice coordination, PMO, business operations, governance coordination or operational administration role within a technology environment.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple forums, documents, actions, deadlines and stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with senior technology leaders, architects and technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of architecture as a discipline is beneficial, with sufficient understanding of architecture concepts to coordinate reviews, documentation and resource planning effectively.
• Strong attention to detail, with experience maintaining action logs, decision records, documentation repositories and governance materials.
• Confident and persuasive communicator, able to build constructive relationships, produce clear agendas, meeting notes, action summaries and practice updates, and secure timely input or action from stakeholders without unnecessary friction.
• Experience supporting resource allocation, capacity tracking, budget administration or contingent resource onboarding is beneficial.
• Experience or knowledge of architecture governance, technical standards management or design review processes is beneficial.
• Experience of governance processes in any context is useful, particularly coordinating forums, tracking decisions, following up actions and maintaining records.
• Practical experience using enterprise architecture tools, such as Ardoq or similar EA repository and platform tools, is highly beneficial.
• Comfortable working with structured repositories, workflow tools and collaboration platforms to maintain accurate records, track actions and provide visibility of progress.
• Able to bring structure to ambiguous or evolving ways of working, helping turn informal practices into repeatable routines, templates and governance processes.
• Experience in Retail, Luxury or Consumer Goods industries is beneficial.

Skills

Experience

Proven experience in a practice coordination, PMO, business operations, governance coordination or operational administration role within a technology environment.

Culture

Burberry fosters a creative and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and sustainability. The company is committed to being a force for good, driving industry change and championing community engagement.

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