Service Architect (Professional Services)

Computacenter (UK) Ltd • London, Reading, Salford

London, Reading, Salford

218185-en_GB

Life on the team

At Computacenter, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture that emphasises diversity, inclusivity, and collaboration. We are committed to building supportive and rewarding relationships, celebrating success, and treating everyone with respect.

We are now looking for 3 Service Architects to join Jason Martin’s Portfolio and Design team. You will bring a strong service design and solution mindset, able to translate strategy into scalable, customer-centric service solutions.

You will be responsible for the development, enablement, and lifecycle management of defined delivery capabilities (service products) within a specific GPS-aligned Technology Area.

The role operates with a high degree of autonomy and translates portfolio and strategic intent into executable, standardised, and repeatable service capabilities that are operationally viable, consistently adopted, and demonstrably valuable to customers and Group Professional Services.

What you’ll do

  • Support the design of innovative, scalable service solutions and capabilities that address customer needs
  • Translate business and customer requirements into structured, commercially viable service designs
  • Own the lifecycle of service capability from concept through optimisation and retirement
  • Define and codify service components including delivery models and tools
  • Support bids, proposals, and customer engagements

What you’ll bring

  • Experience as a Service Architect, Service Designer, or similar
  • Strong ability to design end-to-end service solutions
  • Experience working across pre-sales, delivery, and technical teams
  • Understanding of service lifecycle and operational models
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience in service products, service design, or capability management.
  • Exposure to portfolio-managed environments and structured governance models.
  • Experience working with nearshore and offshore delivery models.
  • Understanding of commercial performance drivers within professional services.
  • Commercial awareness of service design and delivery

Open communication

Despite our size, we’re an open organisation that doesn’t hide behind hierarchy. We communicate regularly, openly and directly. For us, it’s about being straightforward, delivering and doing the right thing. Essentially, we’re people dealing with people.

Access all areas

Join us and you’ll follow a structured programme that gives you access to all parts of Computacenter including our senior leaders.

Showing appreciation & having fun

Great performance is recognised, so too is the willingness to help others. Our Bravo! awards and Long Service Awards Scheme are just a taste of how we say thank you for a job well done. And when it comes to recognising success, we love to celebrate. Our company and team events are legendary!

Health & wellbeing

Our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about supporting you in feeling good and staying healthy. We offer a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Champions, Mental Health First Aiders, Access to Work scheme, and more.

Inclusive workplace

People work best when they bring their whole selves to work, that’s why we see and value you as the amazing individual you truly are. We take a genuine interest you that extends beyond skills, knowledge, and experience. Our Employee Impact Groups champion best practice, celebrate diversity and promote inclusion within our industry.

Pension and financial security

Thinking ahead, planning for life’s uncertainties, or simply saving for a rainy day? We offer auto-enrolment onto our pension scheme, a Sharesave/SAYE scheme and more besides.

Flexible benefits

Do you fancy a new bicycle? Want to work-out at the gym? Or do you prefer to get-away from it all? With our voluntary flexible benefits platform, ‘My Benefits’, you can. Achieve savings with our Cycle2Work, GymFlex, Travel Insurance benefits and loads more.

We’re a place where you can belong

We’re a place where you can belong

At Computacenter, people matter. We value what makes you, you, and believe everyone should feel comfortable being themselves at work. Here, you’ll be recognised for your contribution, supported to grow, and welcomed into a vibrant, collaborative culture where you can experience a genuine sense of belonging - because when you thrive, we thrive.

You’ll see this reflected in our recruitment process too. We aim to provide fair access to opportunities and an inclusive, barrier‑free experience. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values and bring the skills and experience we need.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme. If you opt in and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you’ll be guaranteed an interview, and we’re happy to support any reasonable adjustments. Please let us know when you apply.

Winning Together

At Computacenter, we have been writing success stories for more than 40 years! Today, we’re driving digital transformation with over 20,000 employees worldwide. We develop IT strategies, implement new technologies and manage complex infrastructures.

As a proud, independent partner to some of the world’s leading technology providers, our portfolio covers workplace, applications & data, cloud & data center, security, and networking. What’s the secret of our success? Quite simply, it’s our people.

The people who bring their unique skills and perspectives to a diverse and inclusive environment that enables them to reach their full potential.

Winning Together

We are an award-winning employer!

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