diff --git a/src/cmd/vendored.go b/src/cmd/vendored.go
index a5cf6101..c6b325ca 100644
--- a/src/cmd/vendored.go
+++ b/src/cmd/vendored.go
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ var runnerCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		os.Args = os.Args[1:]          // grab 'run' and onward from the CLI args
 		runnerConfig.CmdPrefix = "uds" // use vendored Zarf inside the runner
 		runnerConfig.EnvPrefix = "uds"
+		// The maru runner init gets called before the uds-cli init, which looks for RUN_ARCHITECTURE because the EnvPrefix
+		// that we set above is not called yet. So in order to set the architecture if passing in UDS_ARCHITECTURE we must set it here.
+		archValue := os.Getenv("UDS_ARCHITECTURE")
+		if archValue != "" {
+			runnerConfig.CLIArch = archValue
+		}
 		runnerCLI.RootCmd().SetArgs(os.Args)
 		runnerCLI.Execute()
 	},
diff --git a/src/test/e2e/runner_test.go b/src/test/e2e/runner_test.go
index 16002aca..76110ef4 100644
--- a/src/test/e2e/runner_test.go
+++ b/src/test/e2e/runner_test.go
@@ -323,7 +323,6 @@ func TestTaskRunner(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 
 	t.Run("test task to load env vars using the envPath key", func(t *testing.T) {
-		t.Parallel()
 		stdOut, stdErr, err := e2e.UDS("run", "env-from-file", "--file", "src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml")
 		require.NoError(t, err, stdOut, stdErr)
 		require.Contains(t, stdErr, e2e.Arch)
@@ -349,4 +348,19 @@ func TestTaskRunner(t *testing.T) {
 		require.NotContains(t, stdErr, "default")
 		require.Contains(t, stdErr, "env-var")
 	})
+	t.Run("test that ARCHITECTURE env var is getting passed to runner", func(t *testing.T) {
+		os.Setenv("UDS_ARCHITECTURE", "amd64")
+		stdOut, stdErr, err := e2e.UDS("run", "echo-architecture", "--file", "src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml")
+		require.NoError(t, err, stdOut, stdErr)
+		require.NotContains(t, stdErr, "arm64")
+		require.Contains(t, stdErr, "amd64")
+
+		os.Setenv("UDS_ARCHITECTURE", "arm64")
+		stdOut, stdErr, err = e2e.UDS("run", "echo-architecture", "--file", "src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml")
+		require.NoError(t, err, stdOut, stdErr)
+		require.NotContains(t, stdErr, "amd64")
+		require.Contains(t, stdErr, "arm64")
+
+		os.Setenv("UDS_ARCHITECTURE", "")
+	})
 }
diff --git a/src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml b/src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml
index 66402c0a..1e32e1dc 100644
--- a/src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml
+++ b/src/test/tasks/tasks.yaml
@@ -162,3 +162,7 @@ tasks:
     actions:
       - cmd: cat ${COOL_FILE}
         dir: ${COOL_DIR}
+  - name: echo-architecture
+    description: Echos the architecture being used for the task by the runner
+    actions:
+        - cmd: echo "${UDS_ARCH}"