About this role
Salary: £115,000 - 126,000 per year
Requirements
- Significant experience as an Enterprise Architect, Lead Architect, or in an equivalent senior architecture role
- Experience developing enterprise architecture roadmaps across multiple business domains and technology functions
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executives and senior leaders
- Expertise across application architecture, integration, cloud platforms, data, security, and engineering practices
- Knowledge of architecture governance, capability-based planning, technology transformation, and operating models
- Experience evaluating strategic technology options and communicating trade-offs effectively
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex architectural concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Understanding of modern architecture approaches, including cloud-native, SaaS, API-led, event-driven, and data-centric architectures
- Strong understanding of AWS and Azure environments
- Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, including APIs, messaging, events, orchestration, and data movement
- Knowledge of data architecture, governance, lineage, and quality management principles
- Knowledge of engineering and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and security scanning
- Knowledge of operational resilience, service ownership, disaster recovery, and non-functional architecture considerations
- Exposure to AI, automation platforms, and responsible AI governance frameworks
- Experience in wealth management, asset and investment management, private banking, financial planning, or broader financial services is an advantage
- Experience operating within regulated organisations and delivering enterprise-scale transformation programmes is highly advantageous
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve enterprise-wide target and transitional architectures
- Translate business strategy into technology direction, investment priorities, and delivery roadmaps
- Provide architectural leadership across major transformation programmes and strategic initiatives
- Develop and maintain architecture principles, standards, patterns, and governance frameworks
- Drive technology simplification, rationalisation, and platform consolidation initiatives
- Partner with engineering, cloud, data, security, and business teams to shape strategic platforms and capabilities
- Lead architecture decision-making across applications, data, integration, infrastructure, and cloud
- Evaluate new technologies, platforms, and vendors, balancing value, risk, cost, resilience, and scalability
- Ensure architecture supports operational resilience, regulatory requirements, and long-term maintainability
- Assess emerging technologies, including AI and automation, to identify opportunities for enterprise value creation
Technologies
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Security
More
We are partnering with a leading financial services organisation undergoing significant technology transformation and strategic investment in enterprise-wide architecture. This permanent Enterprise Architect role is based in London with a flexible hybrid working model and offers the opportunity to influence business strategy, technology direction, and large-scale change programmes across a complex, regulated environment. The position combines strategic architectural vision with pragmatic delivery across business and technology functions. We offer a senior strategic leadership opportunity, high-profile transformation and architecture initiatives, the chance to shape enterprise technology strategy, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package.
last updated 43 week of 2026