Senior Enterprise Architect

Senior Enterprise Architect – Business & Commercial Banking

💰 £550/day (Inside IR35) 📍 London (2 days per week onsite)

📅 12-Month Contract

Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to support a major Business & Commercial Banking technology programme. You’ll work across business, architecture, engineering and delivery teams to shape enterprise and end-to-end architectures, define future-state technology roadmaps and support complex transformation and modernisation initiatives. This role requires strong Commercial Banking/Financial Services architecture experience, combined with broad expertise across cloud, integration, data and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Define high-level, future-state and North Star architectures, technology views and strategic roadmaps.
• Support the adoption of Architecture as Code approaches.
• Shape end-to-end architectures across cloud, data, integration and infrastructure domains.
• Provide architectural direction covering strategy, principles, standards and guardrails.
• Develop transition-state architectures and support architecture delivery through implementation.
• Work directly with programme and workstream leads to shape scope, requirements, architecture and design roadmaps.
• Produce architectural artefacts and identify cross-domain dependencies, risks and design impacts.
• Lead and support feasibility assessments and solution designs.
• Define tooling strategy and data delivery/integration patterns.
• Provide architectural assurance and contribute to architecture governance.
• Influence senior stakeholders across CTO, CIO, Engineering, Architecture and Business teams.
• Work closely with delivery, platform and engineering teams to ensure architectural coherence while enabling pragmatic delivery.

Essential Skills

• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience within Commercial Banking, Business Banking or Corporate Banking.
• Strong understanding of the architectural challenges associated with banking and financial services.
• Broad architecture expertise across cloud, integration, data and infrastructure.
• Strong experience defining target-state/North Star architectures and technology roadmaps.
• Experience shaping complex transformation and modernisation programmes.
• Strong solution and enterprise architecture capabilities applied to complex business problems.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across CTO, CIO, Architecture, Engineering and Business functions.
• Strong understanding of modern technology architecture, standards, principles and governance.
• Experience working closely with engineering, platform and delivery teams.

Desirable Skills

• Strong Microsoft Azure architecture and cloud solution design experience.
• Experience developing Architecture as Code approaches.
• Experience leading or providing direction to a small team of Enterprise Architects.
• Experience architecting technology platforms supporting global business operations.
• Knowledge of regulatory and governance requirements within banking.

Please apply with your CV and we'll be in touch. Thank you!